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Scientists from NASA and USC have developed a fuel cell from Methanol. This fuel cell offers more advantages than traditional fuel cells. Methanol is easier to transport and are simpler in design. Carbon dioxide and pure water are the only byproducts of the fuel cell. Recent advancements in technology have made this methanol fuel cell [...]

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Scientists from Monash University have made an important breakthrough with hydrogen renewable energy. Most commonly found as black dots on rocks, scientists have found that a substance called Birnessite is able to break apart the hydrogen and oxygen bonds that form water with the help of sunlight. Manganese is the most common pure substance in [...]

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The source of a key brain function was found by researchers at the University of Southern California. This function is the ability to comprehend a scene. This also includes scenes that we have no experience with and we can do it within a fraction of a second. Scientists already knew that the ”scene-facilitation effect” took place, what they [...]

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Scientists have discovered that deadly bacteria is evolving to mimic the human proteins that are meant to protect against them.Scientist also believe that this might be the reason why deadly pathogens that years ago were easily treatable and preventable are now reappearing even though our medical research and materials are far better than before. Scientists will now [...]

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It has recently been discovered that the strongest silk of any kind is the silk of a spider!  This is incredible.  How could something so small give the world one of the strongest material?  The key is in the architecture of the spider silk fiber and the molecular structure that is in the spider’s characteristics of [...]

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You may disagree with me, but it is my opinion that basketball is the greatest sport ever invented.  I would like to congratulate Mr James Naismith for giving us this wonderful game.  But could this game of big dunks and spectacular highlights be a game with traumatic brain injuries?  In basketball there is virtually no [...]

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Researchers have been attempting to create a drug to fight and even cure human diseases.  This research involves being able to see clearly into the insides of a live mouse.  The flourescent dyes that are used now make the image of the insides of a mouse to become blurry.  However, researchers from Stanford have created [...]

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Often in class, I hear students asking teachers to go to the office and get some ibuprofen to get rid of a headache. Ibuprofen is such a common painkiller that we almost take it for granted. But scientists in the United Kingdom have been studying the effects of ibuprofen, and have come to realize that [...]

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A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko’s sticky foot to create a similar robotic model.  The robot gecko has feet exactly like that of an ordinary gecko, which means it can virtually do anything a real-life gecko can do.  It can climb vertical slippery walls just like a real gecko.  After [...]

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A new simple technique for stamping patterns which are invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nano material. This technique provides a cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas from drug delivery to solar cells. It works because the  materials that are riddled with tiny voids that give them unique optical, electrical, chemical and mechanical [...]

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