Commercial trips to the moon
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Cat naps can improve memory fuctions
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Allergy issues increased due to climate change
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Pharmaceuticals in our drinking water
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Sinking down to the summit
By Marci Wills, May 2, 2010 Scientists like to categorize life on Earth into “biomes”. This is just a fancy name for regions characterized by similar biological and physical characteristics. For example, rain forests, temperate forests, savannas and deserts are some of the most well known and explored biomes. Little is known however, about many [...]
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Exercist Therapy: A Natural Anti-Depressant
By Abby Larson Have you ever felt sad or stressed, laced up your running shoes and went on a run to find yourself feeling happier once you got back? Anti-depressants might not be the best treatment for depression and anxiety, conditions that many Americans take drugs for. Psychology Professors Smits and Otto from Southern Methodist [...]
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Space is big, time is bunk
By Victor Allegretti Douglas Adams once wrote, “There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.” [...]
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Walking source of Biodiesel
By Amy Woolf Biodiesel is no longer just made from plant resources. Scientists in Nevada have found a new way to make biodiesel out of chicken feather meal. This advancement could take some of the resource competition out of the biodiesel industry. Currently, most biodiesel is made from soy and vegetable oil, which is also [...]
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Icelandic volcanoes spew Hydrofluoric acid… just one more reason why living on Earth is sometimes difficult.
By Marci Wills, April 18th, 2010 It seems that Earth is especially determined to show off its tricks this year. The ongoing eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (how do you pronounce that?) volcano in Iceland this week serves as yet another powerful reminder that we must organize our lives around the unpredictable workings of our planet. The [...]
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Brain shock therapy that actually works!
Justin Williams ’13 Just today, April 18th, 2010, researchers from various universities (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Tufts University, and The University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign) published that they have developed a new and improved way to implant electrodes into the brain in order to monitor and react to different patterns of brain activity. As of [...]
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