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How chemistry, specifically the creation of helium hydride, allowed the universe as we know it to exist.
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/dec/21-when-the-cosmos-started-to-cook
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Good article on 1080 use
1080 debate: time to face reality
The University of Auckland's Dr Cate Macinnis-Ng makes a case for why we can't leave our vulnerable native species to fend for themselves.
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A, longish read but a cool demonstration of “the full process of evolution by natural selection," connecting all the dots from genes to physical traits to environments.
The Wild Experiment That Showed Evolution in Real Time
By placing wild mice in large outdoor enclosures, an ambitious team of scientists has illustrated the full process of natural selection in a single study.
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@Stockcar86 said in Science!:
Great thread on megafauna extinctions
Tl;dr it wasn't the climate that killed them it was us
On my reading list is American Serengeti, the animals that went extinct in America are interesting. It’s thought the short faced bear was so terrifying it might have held back humans from crossing over the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska
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Rare black panther confirmed in Kenya
The extremely rare female cat has melanism, a condition in which the body produces an excess of pigment.
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@Stockcar86 said in Science!:
Science-adjacent
These people are real - it is not satire
From hyperbaric oxygen chambers to HumanChargers: welcome to the wellness revolution
ALEX BEER38. Photographer and model at Select Model Management5.55-6.45am I wake up and immediately rehydrate. Your body is the most absorbent after you sleep, so the first thing you put in it is the most important. I have a glass of Rebel Kitchen raw coconut water (you should be drinking slightly p
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...I'm not saying this method is the correct way to do things, but I wonder about this myself sometimes. There's loads of research out there, but time is really the only thing they can't fully replicate. Technology is everywhere, most people have a device within a foot of them, if not on them 24/7 these days. Will there be any long term effects .. ?
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VANTABLACK!
Here's What Happens When You Shine A Laser On The Blackest Material Ever Made
This new material is so black, scientists can't even measure it. In fact, it barely reflects any light at all.
This is a highly unusual property for most substances. Normally, when you shine a laser on a material, you can see the light from the laser drift across it as it reflects back at you.
This is how our eyes can see the colors that make up the world around us.
But when engineers from British company Surrey NanoSystems trace a laser over the blackest material ever, the light disappears
Where does the light go? Basically, it gets trapped inside the material.
Vantablack, as the material is called, is made by tightly packing carbon nanotubes — rods of carbon that are much, much thinner than any human hair — so close together that light goes in, but can't escape.
Surrey NanoSystems made the original Vantablack back in 2014, which they said absorbed 99.96% of the light that hit it.
But this new version of Vantablack (which we first heard about from ScienceAlert) is so black that their machines aren't powerful enough to measure its darkness.
Vantablack is mainly being used in research applications now, so you can't, say, buy a can of it to paint your walls with.
But that would be cool. Let us know if they ever start doing that.
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i played rugby with a guy like that. Midnight that guy.
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Mysterious new orca species likely identified
For the first time, scientists have filmed and studied the elusive “type D” killer whales in the wild.
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American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains: Flores, Dan: 9780700624669: Amazon.com: Books
Tremarctinae - Wikipedia
Here's What Happens When You Shine A Laser On The Blackest Material Ever Made
