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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Even optimistic estimates for
what might be achieved at December's Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris
will not be enough to save the world's coral reefs, according to a Plenary
session analysis presented at the Goldschmidt conference in Prague. The left
side of this photo shows a healthy reef at...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Marks on two 3.4
million-year-old animal bones found at the site of Dikika, Ethiopia, were not
caused by trampling, an extensive statistical analysis confirms. The Journal of
Human Evolution is publishing the results of the study, which developed new
methods of fieldwork and analysis for researchers exploring the origins of...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Boston Dynamics released a video
of their Atlas robot taking a stroll in the woods. To check out the video click
here http://theforteanslip.blogspot.com/......
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . When it comes to making paper
models for prototyping or form inspiration purposes, rarely ever do we expect
the final results to ever function as the final object – especially if it’s as
complicated as an engine. Yet, YouTube user Al Zh has defied the odds and has
created what...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . ZME Science Scientists working
at Monash University in Melbourne have developed the most energy-efficient
‘artificial photosynthesis’ method to date. The process relies on running an
electrical current through water to separate it into oxygen and hydrogen, and
the team behind it say it could be used to power our home...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . In 1872, construction workers
digging a hole for a fence post near the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in New
England found a lump of clay, with an egg shaped artifact inside it, six feet
below the ground. Called the ‘Mystery Stone’, it is one of New Hampshire's more
curious and...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . It’s official – Google Fiber’s
next stop is San Antonio. This will be the biggest city to which Google’s
brought its high-speed internet. According to Google, the Fiber installation
will require over 4,000 miles of cable. “From starting Bexar BiblioTech, the
first all-digital public library in the U.S., to being...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Violent conflicts in Neolithic
Europe were held more brutally than has been known so far. This emerges from a
recent anthropological analysis of the roughly 7000-year-old mass grave of
Schöneck-Kilianstädten by researcher of the Universities of Basel and Mainz. The
findings, published in the journal PNAS, show that victims were...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. The newest news is that hydrogen sulfide - the compound responsible for
the smell of rotten eggs - conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record
high temperature of 203 Kelvin (–70 degrees C), reports a paper published in
Nature. This super-conductor however suffers from a serious existential crisis:
it...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. The following is an excerpt from the latest informative post on the Clio
blog, read the entire article here.In January, I finally did something that I
had been wanting to do since graduating law school: I decided to practice law
full-time. You don’t need me to tell you how the job...
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