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Science Blast! When Friends Become Foes!

Science Blast! When Friends Become Foes!

Friends to Foes: When a Symbiont Becomes a Parasite

Hotter water changes the relationship between coral reefs and tiny single-celled organisms called symbiodinium

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Osama Alian

  We’ve all heard that rising global temperatures are bad for the environment. Typically, this is framed in terms of rising sea levels and melting Arctic and Antarctic ice and a host of other…

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Science Blast! Child Detecting Caps--will they finally keep out kids, instead of adults?

Science Blast! Child Detecting Caps–will they finally keep out kids, instead of adults?

 Smart Pill Bottle Caps to Protect Curious Kids

Researchers develop an intelligent pill bottle that can sense a child’s touch with high accuracy

  There’s no shelf too high or a bottle too tight that can kill a child’s curiosity. For all the cushioned furniture corners and safety gates that parents install to child-proof their homes, the safe storage of medicines out of a child’s sight and reach…

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Science Blast! How Bacteria Conquer!

Science Blast! How Bacteria Conquer!

 How Bacteria Platoons Communicate to Conquer

How bacteria called Pseudomonas communicate with each other during infection

    Wild E-Coli!

  The more we know about how pathogenic bacteria arrive to and colonize our bodies, the better we can take measures to help our immune system combat them. While most bacteria that we coexist with are beneficial to us or at the very least, neutral, our body is…

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Science Blast: When DNA meets LEGO: Sculpting on the Nanoscale

Science Blast: When DNA meets LEGO: Sculpting on the Nanoscale

Think back to your childhood, and there’s one thing many of us had in common: LEGOs. In fact, I challenge you to find someone who has never played with LEGO bricks in their lifetime. From houses to spaceships, the possibilities are seemingly endless with these colorful bricks. Now, think of your favorite LEGO creation, and imagine it miniaturized 4 million times, Magic School Bus style. That is…

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Science Blast! The Atmosphere of Distant Worlds

Science Blast! The Atmosphere of Distant Worlds

Can’t go there? Next best thing!

By Nandita Hari Guest Contributor

Humans have always been fascinated with the vastness of the universe and its hidden truths. For ages we have tried to explore and study the sky. The earliest study of the sky involved using the positions of stars to navigate the seas. Slowly, solar and lunar cycles were observed, planets and galaxies were discovered, and telescope…

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Science Blast: Humans Murder Monkeys!

Science Blast: Humans Murder Monkeys!

A 2,200-year-old Chinese tomb held a new gibbon species, now extinct EXTINCTIONS PAST People may have caused a distinctive line of gibbons to go extinct sometime within the last 2,000 years, a discovery from an ancient Chinese tomb suggests. All gibbon species living today (Hoolock hoolock, shown) are imperiled.

A royal crypt from China’s past has issued a conservation alert for apes currently…

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Science Blast: Fire Rainbows

Science Blast: Fire Rainbows

A real phenomena that sounds like something out of a fairytale:

Jeff Kubia, via Flicker

During the summer, if you’re very lucky, you may notice a cloud in the sky that looks just like a rainbow. These so-called “fire rainbows” are actually known as circumhorizontal arcs and can occur when the sun has risen higher than 58° in the sky. For those living at mid-latitudes, the best chance to see this…

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Science Blast! Extinct Dog Returns!

Science Blast! Extinct Dog Returns!

More good news about Man’s Best Friend:

The World’s Rarest And Most Ancient Dog Has Been Re-Discovered in The Wild

The first sighting in more than half a century.

BEC CREW  27 MAR 2017

After decades of fearing that the New Guinea highland wild dog had gone extinct in its native habitat, researchers have finally confirmed the existence of a healthy, viable population, hidden in…

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