Crazy Photos

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• Small Hairy Balls Hide Foul-Tasting Healthful Enzymes

  
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  Dutch researcher Saskia Lindhoud has discovered a new way to package enzymes by causing charged polymers to form a ‘ball of hair’ around them.Dutch researcher Saskia Lindhoud has discovered a new way to package enzymes by causing charged polymers to form a ‘ball of hair’ around them. Her approach significantly ...
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• Biological Basis of ‘Bacterial Immune System’ Discovered

  
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  Bacteria and archaea (first discovered in extreme environments such as deep-sea volcanic vents, such as the one shown above) manage to survive thanks in part to a built-in defense system that helps protect them from many viruses and other invaders.Bacteria don’t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune ...
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• Greening of Sahara Desert Triggered Early Human Migrations out of Africa

  
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  The Sahara Desert on the border of Morocco and Algeria the way it looks today.A team of scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the University of Bremen (Germany) has determined that a major change in the climate of the Sahara and Sahel region of North Africa facilitated early human ...
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• New Brain Connections Form Rapidly During Motor Learning

  
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  New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a new study.New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published recently in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of ...
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• Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Saturn’s Moon Titan

  
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  This image shows the northern and southern hemispheres of Titan, showing the disparity between the abundance of lakes in the north and their paucity in the South. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the ...
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• A Watch That Shoots High Def Video

  
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  For those of you who are dreaming about becoming the next James Bond, you’ll certainly be attracted to JTT’s WACAHD8GB wristwatch. It looks like your average wristwatch, but it it’s able to shoot 1280 x 960 resolution videos at 30fps, and you’ll also be able to take still shots that are just under ...
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• Man Carves Sentence On Fly’s Wing

  
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  Kung fu master Chen Pengxian wasn’t just winging it when he claimed he could create the smallest carving in the world.So Chen, 42, carved an entire sentence in Chinese characters on a fly’s wing to prove his ability.The sentence – which translates as ‘I am at the bottom of her valley of no love’ - [...]
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• Top 10 Photos of the Week

  
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  Both Jesse and Kurt had a hard time making friends,mainly because of the nerve gasLife is delusional on so many levels. First it deludes you into thin king you’re important. Then it deludes you into thinking others actually care about you. Then it deludes you into paying taxes. For the love of God, let me be ...
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• Amazing Photos – Parenting in a World of Chaos

  
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  Parenting is challenging even in the best of timesBest advice to new parents – be flexible, be creative, and feel free to rewrite the rules whenever you have to. Being a parent is now more difficult that ever, and this amazing series of photos does an amazing job of capturing the craziness of our times. [...]
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• Opposites Attract: Monkeys Choose Mating Partners With Different Genes

  
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  Mandrills. The world’s largest species of monkey ‘chooses’ mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring, according to a new research study. The world’s largest species of monkey ‘chooses’ mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy ...
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• Some Germs Are Good for You: Surface Bacteria Maintain Skin’s Healthy Balance

  
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  Bacteria growing in a cell culture.On the skin’s surface, bacteria are abundant, diverse and constant, but inflammation is undesirable. Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine now shows that the normal bacteria living on the skin surface trigger a pathway that prevents excessive ...
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• Deep-Sea World Beyond Sunlight: Explorers Census 17,650 Ocean Species on Edge of Black Abyss

  
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  he nine known species of rare, primitive finned octopods are commonly called “Dumbos” because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, akin to the cartoon flying elephant.Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have ...
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• Solar Winds Triggered by Magnetic Fields

  
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  XRT Full Sun (Synoptic).Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.Scientists have long speculated on the source of solar ...
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• Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine

  
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  This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was gulped down about 200 to 700 million years ago.A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque ...
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• Top 10 Photos of the Week

  
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  Sad but true – Members of Congress are just way too full of hot airCrazy stuff is all around us. In fact, crazy stuff is so prevalent that it may actually be more normal than the normal stuff. Whatever the case may be in your life, we feel certain we are pushing the envelope. (Pics).Being a [...]
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• Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

  
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  Cigarettes are “widely contaminated” with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study.Cigarettes are “widely contaminated” with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland ...
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• Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara

  
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  Paleontologist Paul Sereno with his Saharan discoveries — SuperCroc, BoarCroc (upper right), PancakeCroc (lower right), RatCroc, DogCroc and DuckCroc.A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National ...
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• Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere

  
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  Volcano eruption on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.Much of our planet’s mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth’s chemical cycles were different from today’s. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of scientists including Andrey Bekker and Doug Rumble ...
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• Scientists Crack Corn Code: Reference Genome of Maize, Most Important US Crop

  
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  An ear of corn on the stalk in a field ready for harvesting.A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize (Zea ...
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• New on-Off ‘Switch’ Triggers and Reverses Paralysis in Animals With a Beam of Light

  
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  This tiny worm became temporarily paralyzed when scientists fed it a light-sensitive material, or “photoswitch,” and then exposed it to ultraviolet light.In an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, scientists in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off “switch” ...
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