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"I think we're on the verge, right now, of solving the artificial-heart problem for good. All we had to do was get rid of the pulse."
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Scientists have not found a single way to break down polyurethane--luckily, nature has found a way on its own. Yale scientists recently found a fungus in the Amazonian rainforest that naturally eats polyurethane. This is the first fungus species, identified by the Yale researchers as Pestalotiopsis microspore, which exclusively subsists on polyurethane. It can also grow in an anaerobic (air-less) environment, which will hopefully allow it to take root in the deepest regions of our trash heaps.
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Eddy current braking demo. No magnetic attraction here, just genuine gravity breaking.
by JamesRB1995
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Gunther von Hagens, acid-corrosion cast of the arteries of the adult human hand
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Red Cage Fungus / thought this was a piece by @Jessica Rosenkrantz
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Deep-sea fish have adapted to their pitch-black environment in a variety of amazing ways. Several species of deep-water fishes in the family Opisthoproctidae are called "barreleyes" because their eyes are tubular in shape. Barreleyes typically live near the depth where sunlight from the surface fades to complete blackness. They use their ultra-sensitive tubular eyes to search for the faint silhouettes of prey overhead.
by MBARIvideo
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Materials researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have developed a highly conductive silver ink.
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Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field. Holy crap we live in the future.
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This is where we live, the Milky Way Galaxy. Every one of those dots is a sun. Sometimes I forget how absolutely incredible this world is. via the Two Micron All Sky Survey using, in part, the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The universe is awesome.
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The Radioactive Orchestra by Axel Boman creates intriguing melodies by simulating how an isotope decays from its excited nuclear state to its ground state. This is one of the songs created as part of the project.
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The Radioactive Orchestra by Axel Boman creates intriguing melodies by simulating how an isotope decays from its excited nuclear state to its ground state. This is an interview of the people behind the project.
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NASA announced today that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to today's announcement).
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Preston Brigham Isn't Dick Cheney one of the three pulseless