3 month ago
gleuschk : Human egg makes accidental debut on camera - whoa, ovulations caught on film. I'll never eat salmon roe again
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : xkcd's Fields Arranged by Purity -
gleuschk : xkcd - fields arranged by purity - an old joke, but still true
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deusx : Hairy blobs found in acidic hell - "Kathleen Benison, a geologist at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, led a team that studied the sediments formed by acidic and very salty lakes in modern day Western Australia, and those deposited around 250 million years ago in North Dako
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7 month ago
gleuschk : A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times - the rise of slime
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News - How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News: "Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves." Biology is cool.
deusx : How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News - "Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves."
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Seed: Prime Vertebrae - why is the difference between 6 annd 7 cervical vertebrae so profound?
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14 month ago
cameron : What Evolution Left Behind On Humans - List of body parts unnecessary but stuck in the human genome
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17 month ago
Richard Rutter : Matt Webb on jetlag - Observations of a body at work.
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17 month ago
deusx : The prospect of all-female conception - Independent Online Edition > Science & Technology - "Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from male bone-marrow tissue."
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21 month ago
deusx : The tiny magnetite compass in the human nose | Anthropology.net - "Magnetite helps orientation and direction finding in animals. It no doubtingly helps migratory species migrate successfully by allowing them to draw upon the earth's magnetic fields."
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24 month ago
deusx : Damn Interesting � How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life - "the cautionary tale catalogued in ancient rocks warns us that the environment is certainly not impervious to the actions of those living in it."
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Is cultural diversity the result of parasitic brain infections? - This seems like a wonderful line for Republicans to explore - "Well of course they feel that way because of organisms in their brains. It's obvious really. Poor dears."
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25 month ago
joshua : OpenWetWare - bioengineering wiki
jimray : OpenWetWare - Bioengineering wiki
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26 month ago
deusx : MindBlog: How do we persist when our molecules do not? - "No component of the system is itself stable but the entire production locks together to have stable existence. This is how you can manage to persist even though much of you is being recycled by day if not the hour."
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30 month ago
deusx : New Scientist News - And life created continents... - "Life might, in the end, be responsible for the presence of continents on Earth."
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30 month ago
deusx : Humans evolved color vision to see emotion, not food | News.blog | CNET News.com - "The eyes in humans and their closest relatives in the primate world are geared to detect subtle changes in skin tone caused by blood oxygen levels, according to a new study from Caltech."
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30 month ago
deusx : Divers discover new crustacean - Science - MSNBC.com - "A team of American-led divers has discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday."
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31 month ago
deusx : ABC News: Scientists Find Chickens Retain Ancient Ability to Grow Teeth - "These results provide clear evidence that these chickens possess the memory of the past; they have retained the ability to make teeth, under certain conditions. What I am describing is evolution."
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31 month ago
jimray : Spore - Official game site for one of the most interesting games I've seen in a long time
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31 month ago
deusx : USATODAY.com - Shrimp spring into shattering action - "A few mantis shrimp though, over the years, have shattered the aquariums."
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32 month ago
deusx : The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future - Attack of the Pod Roaches
jkottke : The world's coolest parasite; it makes zombie cockroaches! - The world's coolest parasite; it makes zombie cockroaches! When it wants to lay its eggs, the Ampulex compressa wasp stuns a cockroach, numbs its brain, steers it back to its nest, lays an egg inside it, and eventually a larvae forms, it lunches on the co
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32 month ago
kellan : Neotenous squid found in Monterey Bay - I've never found marine biology as fascinating since I moved away from Santa Cruz #
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34 month ago
jimray : Discovery disproves simple concept of memory as 'storage space' - "Even if you could get more RAM for your brain, the extra storage probably wouldn't make it easier for you to find where you left your car keys."
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kellan : "Bloop" is the name given to an underwater sound, first heard in 1997, o funknown, potentially biological, origins - I **love** wikipedia #
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kellan : World of Warcraft plague.. - Just like Blizzard! Blame it on de trolls, can't get no respect, man. #
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