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[Discoveries]

Two new gigantic viruses 3 0
Posted by duddy   July 24, 2013   2251 views
Have you heard about two new gigantic viruses that have been discovered? They measure around 1 micrometer long & half that across – larger than some eukaryotic cells! Massive genomes up to 2.5 Mb (millions of base pairs) are present to match their giant size. Their discovery raises many questions on viral diversity that remains unexplored.
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1 Could this be the virus that's affecting people in Saudi Arabia? Posted on Jul 27, 2013 by barry

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Leafy Seadragon 3 1
Posted by duddy   July 24, 2013   2200 views
This is the spectacular Leafy Seadragon. Its dangling skin disguises the vulnerable species as floating seaweed. Like seahorses, the male Leafy Seadragon carries the eggs, which are bright pink when the female first deposits them, but turn purple or orange when they're ready to hatch after nine weeks.
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1 It's beautiful! Posted on Jul 25, 2013 by doseofmegan 2 Agreed Posted on Jul 26, 2013 by bio_man

[News]

Does excess mercury cause autism? 3 0
Posted by duddy   July 24, 2013   2166 views
This announcement is the result of over 30 years of extensive research. It was determined that prenatal exposure to low levels of mercury through fish in the mother’s diet or the environment does not contribute to disorders on the Autism spectrum.
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Turn sweat into drinkable water 4 0
Posted by duddy   July 24, 2013   2090 views
Swedish engineers have developed a system that turns sweat into potable water. The Sweat Machine spins clothes to extract liquid from the fibres, filters it and transforms it into water. Their developers say the water extracted from the machine is cleaner than ordinary tap water.
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1 Yeah this is cool, but all that electricity just to save a bit of water when all the time our sweat evaporates into nature and eventually returns as precipitation anyway ... Read more Posted on Jul 24, 2013 by savio

[Interesting Facts]

Planetary grid system 3 0
Posted by duddy   July 24, 2013   2030 views
After discovering that there were 12 main areas that all of these activities seemed to be occurring (such as the Bermuda Triangle and Dragon's triangle in Japan), he then noticed that they were also equidistant from one another. When you connect all of these points together with lines (called ley lines), you have a perfect icosahedron. Russian scientists Goncharov, Morozov and Makarov found that if you take this icosahedron and flip it inside out into the dodecahedron and then plot these new points on the planetary grid with the original 12 points of the original icosahedron, you now have a worldwide grid plotting every single major monolithic structure in the history of the world. ... Read more
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