Ancient human ancestors had unique diet

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When it came to eating, an upright, 2-million-year-old African hominid had a diet unlike virtually all other known human ancestors, says a study led by the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and involving the University of Colorado

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New vaccine for nicotine addiction

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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed and successfully tested in mice an innovative vaccine to treat nicotine addiction.

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The long hunt for Victorian dinosaurs

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Dinosaur remains have been found on every continent on Earth and we know these creatures dominated the planet?s ecosystems for around 140 million years.

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Can machines really think

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As the world celebrates Turing's 100th birthday, IPsoft, the leading independent provider of autonomic IT services, looks back on the developments made in artificial intelligence to date, and what the world will look like once humans and machines are equal in intell

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Space tornadoes power the atmosphere of the Sun

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Mathematicians at the University of Sheffield, as part of an international team, have discovered tornadoes in space which could hold the key to power the atmosphere of the Sun to millions of kelvin.

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Virtual Star Party featured at big Google+
meeting

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This morning was the Google I/O 2012 meeting, celebrating the first anniversary of Google unveiling Google+. At the meeting, keynote speaker Vic Gondotra talked about Google+ Hangouts — live video chats that can have several people broadcasting,[...]

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Basics of Diabetes

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We found this video explanation on the Basics of Diabetes from Dr. Craig Blackwell. Filed under: Of Interest Tagged: Diabetes

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5 Reasons to Not Root Your Android Device

Previously, we discussed some reasons why you should root your Android device. There are, of course, drawbacks. So here are 5 reasons you may not want to root.Risk of Bricking. Bricking a phone, or any electronic device, is when the software running the device becomes either corrupt or non-exist

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Timeline: A Look Back at 40 Years of Atari

From Wired Top Stories: Forty years ago today - June 27, 1972 - Atari Incorporated was born. Read the whole article

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It's About Time!

We measure time by the light of the sun which is arguably the most powerful source of energy and light source known to man. By definition, a light year is a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year. A year is the time taken by a planet to make one revolution around the sun. Specifically, it is between 365 and 366 days per year. A day is also a unit of time commonly referred to as 24 hours. To be exact it is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds?but who is counting?

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From that point we can split a day in two, and of course our point of reference is time. The initials a.m. or ante meridiem, Latin for "before noon" and p.m. or post meridiem, Latin for "after noon", denote what should be read on our clocks and sometimes by looking out of the window. After that determination we can break down the hours and minutes. Move on to the divisions of seconds and milliseconds. This will not be needed for this post, I am sure you get the point. Check out the following?How long is a day on earth?
Most of us that have a novice view of the simplistic view of life view it in the three dimensions of length, width, and height. This is what we learned in elementary school. Those of us that moved into the scientific realm learned that the fourth dimension is time (It is refreshing to know that this concept is being taught in secondary schools, as it wasn?t ordinarily taught). So I began to think about the concept about dimensions and try to delve into making length, width, height, and time more relevant. Figure it as this. We are three dimensional beings, which can take photos of three dimensional objects/beings and view them in two dimensions, on or in a three dimensional object. To expand upon this, we three dimensional humans can sit and dwell within the fourth dimension and watch two dimensional images, on or in a three dimensional object, as we are traveling non-stop in the fourth dimension--and also watch three dimensional objects/beings in two dimensions (sometimes three dimensions) as they also travel in the fourth dimension. The funny thing about the latter is that we can rewind, fast forward, pause, and essentially control the film via DVD, Blue Ray DVD, DVR, VCR, etc. The person controlling the remote control or pressing the buttons can manage the time in which all that happens occurs.                                                     Image from:www.dlnqnt.com
The idea to keep paramount is that there is only one continuous motion for the fourth dimension, forward. As a chemist I learned about Albert Einstein`s Theory of Relativity and especially the equation E=mc^2. Now to a chemist, we understand that nothing can move faster than the speed of light, ?c?. However, I am convinced that if you are able to move faster than ?c?, you will have total control over the fourth dimension, time. When doing research on this topic I was quite surprised that some scientists have postulated that there are not just 4 dimensions, but five, maybe even more. I am not sure about that, but here are some links below you might find interesting to see where and what we are living in!
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13070896/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/physicists-probe-fifth-dimension/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/



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http://www.jimloy.com/physics/4d.htm

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