Topic: Interesting science stories that don't warrant their own thread thread

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Scientists Unveil 20-Million-Year-Old Skull of Ancient Primate Found in Uganda

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Dinosaur-era feathers sealed in amber

Bits of filaments and feathers trapped in amber 79 million years ago offer an unusually wide-ranging view of what late dinosaurs and early birds were wearing.

omg they found Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Fish Uses Tool to Dig Up and Crush Clams

The first video of tool use by a fish has been published in the journal Coral Reefs by Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In the video, an orange-dotted tuskfish digs a clam out of the sand, carries it over to a rock, and repeatedly throws the clam against the rock to crush it. Bernardi shot the video in Palau in 2009.

Choerodon Tools

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'Molecular Wipe': Potential Treatment for 'Pink Eye' Epidemic

One day after getting underway on one of my subs I came down with a bad case of pink eye. This would be not worth mentioning except my job when we got underway was Periscope Operator. For 6 hours I was on one periscope or the other taking bearings to landmarks for navigation and keeping a lookout for other vessels when I wasn't taking rounds. I went to the corpsman, he identified it as pink eye, and I told him I had been the Periscope Operator. Between pulling out of port and my catching pink eye about 20 people had used the scopes. He turned pale, muttered "Awwww shit", handed me some alcohol swaps and told me to wipe down the eyepieces, while he went to tell the CO. No one else caught it tho.

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World's First Energy-Storage Membrane Devised

Crunchy bit:

The cost involved in energy storage is also drastically reduced. With existing technologies based on liquid electrolytes, it costs about US$7 to store each farad. With the advanced energy storage membrane, the cost to store each farad falls to an impressive US$0.62. This translates to an energy cost of 10-20 watt-hour per US dollar for the membrane, as compared to just 2.5 watt-hour per US dollar for lithium ion batteries.

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Nanosolar reaches 17.1% aperture area efficiency with printed CIGS PV cell

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Worms among first animals to surface after K-T extinction event, study finds

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Meteorite rocks house of Comette

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CSHL team finds evidence for the genetic basis of autism

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100,000-year-old ochre toolkit and workshop discovered in South Africa

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In a nationwide first, an innovative system recently installed on the University of Arizona campus uses the sun’s energy not only for heating but also for cooling.

At the heart of the solar thermal cooling and pool heating system is an array of 346 argon-filled vacuum tube solar thermal collectors installed on the roof of the UA’s Student Recreation Center.

The collectors utilize heat from the sun as a free energy source to drive an absorption chilling system to help keep buildings on campus cool while also heating the recreation center’s main swimming pool.

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Just want to find the thread a little easier.

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Transcending Time: Great Long-Term Datasets | Wired Science | Wired.com

Includes Lenski's 20 year E. coli experiment and an island's wolf-moose population study that's been running since 1958.

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UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years

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100,000-year-old ochre toolkit and workshop discovered in South Africa

I intially read that as early South Africans used fried ocra as tools.

I hate my brain in the morning.