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In the late 1700′s the life expectancy of a human was about 24 years. In the 1800′s that age doubled. In our generation we can expect to live to the age of 76, or is it? Recent scientific findings show the role of “telomeres”. Telomeres are the tip of the DNA molecule. Telomeres can now [...]

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The wolf spider is the first known spider to use a eavesdropping type of method to one-up its male rivals. For a long time it has been known that other animals such as fish and birds use eavesdropping to help themselves in mating season, but now through studies we have discovered that also wolf spiders eavesdrop in a way [...]

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If you haven’t already seen the movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes, beware of spoilers in the next few sentences.  In the movie, scientists are working on a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, testing on the brains of chimpanzees.  However, they created a new breed of ape with human intelligence, with very aggressive tendencies.  Now the [...]

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According to the studies at Missouri college, female frogs are pretty picky about there love songs. Researchers have found out that some incredibly attuned female frogs can hear differences in chromosomal structures though the love call. “To the naked eye – human and frog – the two frogs look exactly alike,” Gerhardt said. “The frogs differ [...]

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Graduates from LSU find the world’s smallest vertebrate while on an expedition to the island of New Guinea. The scientists found that a new species of frog averaging 7.7 millimeters is something that they only thought possible in a dream. This frog now beats out a small type of fish that was only 8 millimeters on average. This opens many new doors for scientific [...]

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According to scientists we are a very small step closer to being able to use molecular time-travel. A team of scientists from the University of Chicago did research and experiments on cells from many centuries ago and were able to bring them back to life in working with new cells. The scientists think that by [...]

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A new science organization has made what is called the Integrated Ocean Drilling program is setting out to do research on living microbes underneath the sea floor. This theory has been reviewed and e have known that there are living microbes underwater, but we never have really studied them. Scientists will build what are called, [...]

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Scientists have conducted a study that included 5,000 people in a span of twenty years, and they had found that people who occasionally smoke marijuana once a week, and in some instances once a day, have no long term lung damages. These researchers conducted the study to show there aren’t harmful effects of smoking every [...]

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Chinese and Australian universities have discovered a way to halt or impede the hijacking proses of some deadly viruses to some of the more important organs. These students have found that small amounts or “zaps” of plasma to these areas to brake up the forming of these groups of viruses I thought that this was [...]

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