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New Carnivore Discovered, Rare With Teddy Bear Looks - 0 views
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A fuzzy fog-dweller with a face like a teddy bear is the first carnivore found in the Western Hemisphere in more than three decades, a new study says.The 2-pound (0.9-kilogram) creature, called an olinguito, didn't make itself easy to find. The orange-brown mammal lives out a solitary existence in the dense, hard-to-study cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador,
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The Hayabusa Motorbike - Bird That Flies on the Road!! | adidarwinian - 1 views
Awesome article on Awesome Motorcycle!!
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New Particle Collider Operating in Secret - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"We may not have created a black hole, but it seems we may have discovered a way for elementary particles to shape the path of evolution. You just never know what you are going to find"
Scientists Discover Hunger's Timekeeper - 0 views
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Researchers at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities have identified cells in the stomach that regulate the release of a hormone associated with appetite. The group is the first to show that these cells, which release a hormone called ghrelin, are controlled by a circadian clock that is set by mealtime patterns. The finding, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has implications for the treatment of obesity and is a landmark in the decades-long search for the timekeepers of hunger.
Dark Energy: Still a Puzzle | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - 0 views
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People should not be afraid of dark energy. Remember that the problem with the cosmological constant isn't that it's mysterious and ill-motivated - it's that it's too small! The naive theoretical prediction is larger than what's required by observation by a factor of 10^120. That's a puzzle, no doubt, but setting it equal to zero doesn't make the puzzle go away - then it's smaller than the theoretical prediction by a factor of infinity.
Scientists find an equation for materials innovation - 0 views
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By reworking a theory first proposed by physicists in the 1920s, the researchers discovered a new way to predict important characteristics of a new material before it's been created. The new formula allows computers to model the properties of a material up to 100,000 times faster than previously possible and vastly expands the range of properties scientists can study. "The equation scientists were using before was inefficient and consumed huge amounts of computing power, so we were limited to modeling only a few hundred atoms of a perfect material," said Emily Carter, the engineering professor who led the project. "But most materials aren't perfect," said Carter, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics. "Important properties are actually determined by the flaws, but to understand those you need to look at thousands or tens of thousands of atoms so the defects are included. Using this new equation, we've been able to model up to a million atoms, so we get closer to the real properties of a substance." By offering a panoramic view of how substances behave in the real world, the theory gives scientists a tool for developing materials that can be used for designing new technologies. Car frames made from lighter, strong metal alloys, for instance, might make vehicles more energy efficient, and smaller, faster electronic devices might be produced using nanowires with diameters tens of thousands of times smaller than that of a human hair.
Far Out: The Most Psychedelic Images in Science | Senses | DISCOVER Magazine - 3 views
Feeling the Gyrating Beat with Herbal Highs - 1 views
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Computer Problem Solved - 1 views
I was having difficulties with the computer problem I am facing with and it really disturbs me. I cannot proceed with my school works well because it keeps on showing up. Then I discovered Compu...
Microbes as Guardians of the Earth - 1 views
Microbes go about as gatekeepers of our planet guaranteeing that minerals such as carbon and nitrogen, are continually reused. Despite the fact that the Earth presently populated with green plants,...
How To Produce More Mangoes With Seed Technology - 1 views
Agriculture has been considered as a foundation for life. A number of agricultural methods and technology have adopted in recent years to enhance crop production. New methods of farming were discov...
DiscOU: Discovering Open University Content from Other Online Resources - 0 views
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DiscOU is a resources discovery engine relying on a semantic index of Open University Open Content. It semantically analyses the content of an online resource, and matches it by similarity to other existing Open University content to retrieve the most relevant pieces. It currently works with BBC programme pages, as demonstrated in the video below, as well as from text entered/pasted in the DiscOU alfa interface.
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DiscOU is a resources discovery engine relying on a semantic index of Open University Open Content. It semantically analyses the content of an online resource, and matches it by similarity to other existing Open University content to retrieve the most relevant pieces. It currently works with BBC programme pages, as demonstrated in the video below, as well as from text entered/pasted in the DiscOU alfa interface.