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2008 Hurricane Season Breaks Records in the Atlantic
The 2008 hurricane season officially ends on November 30th, and since they have been keeping accurate records of the storms, this season may be one of the worst in that history. A total of 16 named storms formed this season, based on an operational estimate by NOAAs National Hurricane Center. The st ...
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See Jupiter and Venus on December 1st
On Monday, December 1, 2008 you can observe both Jupiter and Venus in the night sky in close proximity to the moon in North America. This can be observed with the naked eye, and since they are right by the moon you pretty much have to be in your sleep number bed catching Zs already to miss it. Eith ...
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Global Warning Predictions Overestimated?
Mandatory preface to these kinds of posts requires that I say in advance this post has nothing to do with saying that global warming does not exist. The last thing I need is a bunch of greenies hopped up on Ephedrasil hardcore acting like someone just killed their family because they think that some ...
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New Machine Harnesses Renewable Energy From Slow Water Currents
A University of Michigan engineer has been able to emulate fish technology to produce a renewable source of energy from slow water currents. These potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows are being used with the help of fish observation to produce usable energy. Michael Bernitsas, a profess ...
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Next Mars Mission Will Have to Deal with Contamination
This fall the next Mars mission is designed to find out more conclusively whether or not it could support life. The Mars Science Laboratory instrument package will be able to study the martian environment with more accuracy than previous missions, but it will have some obstacles to overcome. Some of ...
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When you dont want to know about food: Raw Milk
Raw milk is what you get straight from the cow. Before they do anything to it and make it for sale to most of us. In most countries raw milk is illegal because it may have harmful microbes we would rather not ingest. So when you get your milk it has already been pasteurized by heating it up to high ...
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Fish Election 2008
You thought elections season was over didnt you? Wellit is for us, but studies have shown that fish seem to elect their leaders like we do. They dont go to a voting center and mark a ballot, but they do tend to vote for the one that looks the best for their leader. It turned out that stickleback fis ...
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Umbilical Cord Blood Helping Build New Heart Valves?
The stem-cell debate is really only a debate for those that dont understand anything about it. When you hear about some of the things that research may bring to us in the future you have to ask yourself why people are against it. A new study may give children with heart defects perfectly-matched ne ...
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Daylight Savings Time Affects Heart Attack Risk?
Talk about an odd study. If you were to get your passport stamped for Sweden recently you may have seen a study about how moving the clock ahead, or back has a slight effect on the risk of hear attack. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have examined how the incidence of myocardial infarction in S ...
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Archaeologists Search for Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan
The first news is that there might even be a hidden tomb that holds the body of Genghis Khan. The legend goes that Genghis Khan lies buried somewhere beneath the dusty steppe of Northeastern Mongolia, entombed in a spot so secretive that anyone who made the mistake of encountering his funeral proces ...
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Solar Industry Upbeat in Poor Economy
Even though the economy certainly isnt ripe for those that would normally buy solar panels, the attendees at the Solar Power International 2008 were still in a good mood. I think theres a flight to quality and we believe theres a flight to solar because of that, said Tom Werner, the CEO of Californ ...
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Stem Cells From Human Hair
Some time ago there was an announcement that successful reprogramming of adult human cells back into so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells was achieved. What this means in layman terms is that embryonic stem cells were being created simply by using a strand of human hair. The problem was, ...
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Mercury Can Be Viewed the Next 3 Weeks
Typically when I see that a celestial object can be viewed easily at any time I try to take a gander at it. According to Space.com, Mercury isnt easily viewed very often. Nonetheless, during these next three weeks we will be presented with an excellent opportunity to view Mercury in the early mornin ...
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Microsofts Ballmer: Its OK to wait for Windows 7
Not sure how many people ever went out and got Vista, but I know I still run XP on all of my computers. IT isnt like this is a new thing anyways. Almost every new release of Windows has had enough problems that waiting an extra year or 2 to get the newer version has always made sense. Besides the ol ...
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Einsteins Relativity Survives Neutrino Test
One of the best things about scientific theeory is that no matter how old the theory is, or how often it is put to the test, there is usually someone out there that wants to try and disprove it. It is a healthy ambition to want to always test a theory so that you are able to either create a newer th ...
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Immune Systems for Electronics
The human body has an immune system which fights off bacteria and helps heal us when things go wrong. Could you imagine electronic devices doing the same for themselves? Researchers at the University of the West of England are to carry out ground breaking research with collaborators from the Univers ...
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Best Jupiter Photo to Date
In August a series of images were taken over a 20 minutethat are being dubbed as the best, and clearest picture of Jupiter ever. Scientist who have overcome their nerd years of acne, and actually got jobs doing what the love were able to take a 265 photo series and create a very clear image of Jupi ...
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Chernobyl Plutonium Found in Swedish Soil?
When the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986 in what was then the Soviet republic of Ukraine, radioactive elements were released in the air and found their way a crossed the Soviet Union, Europe and all the way over eastern portions of North America. Sending many to alcohol ...
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Find Out if You Have a Disease in Minutes
New discoveries may make it so finding out if you have a disease will be as quick as taking a home pregnancy test, or as easy as taking Relacore for a diet. A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds has developed a biosensor technology that uses antibodies to detect biomarkers. These are t ...
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Microsoft Still Paying People to Search
It has been a long time since I had thought about search engines using a reward system for using their search engine to find information. Google has virtually taken over the webs search throne, while Microsoft and Yahoo! are just trying to catch up, or get bought out by one or the other. Frankly, I ...
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