Scientia pro publica # Seven
Category: Blogospherics
This Seventh edition's theme is: "OMG, I can't believe how many submissions there are! Science is everywhere!!!!"
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New theory on Earth's Magnetic Field: Theory interesting, reporting botched
Category: Archaeology
... the interface between simplicity and complexity causes causes little balls of misunderstanding to come flying out of the mix like pieces of raw pizza dough if the guy making the pizza was the Tasmanian Devil ...
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Pretty new science news: asteroid named, chick born
Category: Science News
The 'Atiras' The first asteroid ever discovered that has an orbit completely inside the Earth's, found by an MIT Lincoln Laboratory telescope in 2003 (with multiple exposures marked in red), has been formally named Atira by its discoverers. Seven more such inner-Earth orbit (IEO) asteroids...
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Amazing Fossil Finding: Proto Whales Gave Birth on Land, not at sea
Category: Paleontology
The almost perfectly preserved female was found with an almost perfectly preserved fetus still inside her and ready to be born. A very well preserved male was also found. Shall we call this the "First Flipper Family?" ... Actually, no, let's not....
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Science News Tidbits
Category: Science News
Paleontologist reflects on Darwinian connections (PhysOrg.com) -- As the former director and chief executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England, Sir Peter Crane often walked in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. Peanuts tainted with metal fragments (AP) -- The government acknowledged Friday...
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Science Tidbits
Category: Science News
Snow blankets part of Arabian Peninsula, proving Global Warming is a Myth: UAE mountain covered in rare snow A blanket of snow has covered a mountain in a part of the United Arab Emirates, a rare phenomenon for the desert Gulf country, according to local...
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Journey to the center of the earth for real, sort of.
Category: Science News
Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal energy field in Hawaii, a lucky break for geologists that could allow them to map the geological plumbing that created everything we know as land. The unprecedented discovery could act as a "magma...
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A Bunch of Science News
Category: Science News
Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students American fourth- and eighth-grade students made solid achievement gains in math in recent years and in two states showed spectacular progress, an international survey of student achievement released on Tuesday found. Science performance was flat. NYT ZImbabwe: The New...
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A Plethora of Interesting Science Stuff to Check Out
Category: Science News
The 10K birds Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz! Videos of developmental trajectories in cortical thickening Japan harnesses commuters' stamping for power from PhysOrg.com Japan has found a way to harness clean energy from thousands of stamping feet that pass through one of its busiest...
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Get your science news in 3D
Category: Science News
This is a bunch of people getting their science news in 3D: It must be a story about one of those parasites that come flying out of your head after breeding in your brain or something. Anyway, 3D Science News is HERE....
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