The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently published the findings of a new unordinary fossil. The discovery is believed to be a type of tyrannosaurs. Apparently archaeologists did not realize how many different kinds of tyrannosaurs there were. A graduate student affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History says that “Not all [...]
Entries from October 22nd, 2009
Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur From Asia Described
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Scientists Discover Largest Orb-weaving Spider
October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
A few researchers from the Untied States and Slovenia have found a big Nephila species from Africa and Madagascar. The new species are the biggest orb weaver known. the females of these species are the only one that are giant. they can get to be as big as 1.5 inches long and with a [...]
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Seaweed ‘Super-Food’ Flavoring Ingredients
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
A range of natural flavorsome food products that rely neither on added salt or monosodium glutamate may soon be available thanks to a Cork-based company exploring the food potential of a major Irish natural resource – seaweed. click here to read more Irish seaweed is an underexploited, naturally nutritious food which has been labelled as [...]
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Wasp Show the Ability to Alter Their Brain’s Architecture
October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Wasps may seem like a tiny little creature and you may think nothing much about them. They are puny little animals with a brain the size of two grains of sand. Though you shouldn’t underestimate the brain power of the wasps. Scientists have been studying the brain of the wasp and have discovered they have [...]
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Computers Can’t Get Any Faster?
October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Physics
It almost seems that in these times as soon as you walk out of the store after purchasing a new computer, a new one has been made that is two times faster. The natural thinking is that computers will be so fast that their speed will be infinite. The truth is that this is not [...]
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Asian Animal Faces Extinction
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
The asian animal, Saola, is becoming endangered. The Saola most closely resembles the desert antelopes of Arabia, but is most closely related to wild cattle. When the Saola was discovered in 1992, it was already rare, but numbers have sharply downturned since then. The Saola faces extinction mainly from hunting. Numbers of the Saola are [...]
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Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Two scientists in China have used what they call “metamaterials” to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The physicists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from Southeast University in China, created this tiny black hole in their laboratory. All this talk of black holes and metamaterials sounds pretty cool right? But what exactly does [...]
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The Physics Of A Bump In A Rug
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Apparently there is physics involved in a bump in a rug. The scientists have used their studies of bumps in a rug to apply it to other more important things. It can be used to explain how certain defects in a crystal move, the way tectonic plates move, how cell membranes slide, and how inchworms [...]
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The Physics of a Bump in a Rug
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Two physicists, Dominic Vella and L. Mahadevan both sacrificed an item from their homes for their work. Dominic Vella cut his bathroom rug into strips and Mahadevan used his bookshelf. They used these items to get enough information to learn more about the physics of lumpy carpets. Their results describe how wrinkles in rugs form, [...]
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Physicists Calculate Number of Parallel Universes
October 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Physics
Parallel universes are an idea that some sci-fi people came up with saying that our world could be part of an alternate universe that is part of one big multiverse that the human could barely comprehend. Some physicists looked at the sci-fi idea of a parallel universe and decided that it actually could happen! So [...]
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