Hello Currenters! The Science Group is dedicating this month to the BP spill; all featured stories will be about the oil and other contaminants that continue to spew...
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"The human body may be equipped with a separate sensory system aside from the nerves that gives us the ability to touch and feel, according to a new study....
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" In a recent experiment, Dr. Gallant claims to have made it possible to reproduce video images from human brain activity. Would you post your thoughts on...
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"To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of...
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"Scientists are turning to kids and adults in an effort to create a much clearer picture of the epidemiology of pigeons. Why are there so many different colors...
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"Recent findings by Dutch psychologists Corine Dijk, Peter de Jong and Madelon Peters reveal that if you ever find yourself in a pickle after, say, committing a...
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"The Gates Center for Computer Science and the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies will officially open on September 22. The linked buildings will...
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Hello Current Crew! As your friendly neighborhood science enthusiast, I wanted to bring you a list of all the super awesome SCIENCE groups right here on beloved...
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"Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS...
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"A monkey that has acquired the sole power to hand out apples is generously rewarded with grooming sessions by the other monkeys in its group. But as soon as...
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"Teach a robot to fish and it will fish forever. Give a robot humanoid arms and it will build the fishing pole, catch the fish, gut it, pack it in ice, cook it,...
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"Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another...
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"In experiments, dogs followed human cues to perform certain tasks despite evidence they could see suggesting a different strategy would be smarter, while wolves...
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"The Miller-Urey experiment, conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in 1953, is the classic experiment on the origin of life. It established that...
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"A series of clever experiments into the reptilian “third eye” has confirmed that lizards use this patch of light-sensitive cells as a sun-calibrated...
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"Exactly 400 years ago today, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope...
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"A new rice plant has been developed which grows "snorkels" when exposed to floods. A paper in the journal Nature, describes how the plant elongates...
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"A building block of proteins found in samples from an icy comet’s halo suggests that the ingredients of life could have hitched a ride to early Earth,...
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"When trees fall in the forest, unheard or not, they may change the shape of bird wings. As logging whittled away at Canada’s vast boreal forest during...
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"More state school standards include evolution, finds a nationwide report card, but coverage of human evolution is "abysmal." Nationwide, 40 states...
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