Attack of the giant self-propelled undersea amoebas! (3)
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A new discovery from the world beneath the ocean waves: a single-celled organism the size of a grape that rolls along the sea-bed like some sort of aquatic tumbleweed. [image credit Sönke Johnsen; borrowed from linked article] The researchers said that it’s possible that the sea grape may be a descendent of the creature that made the tracks that are well known from the fossil record. Or – like the tuatara or the coelacanth – ...
Kleptoplast Slug Steals Plant Genes and Lives on Sunlight [Biological Hybrids] (8)
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A kleptoplast is an organism that steals genes from other organisms, usually by eating them. Usually those stolen genes don't actually function, but not so in the case of the leafy green E. chlorotica sea slug. This little guy uses plant genes to generate its own photosynthesis factory - after eating its favorite kind of algae, the E. chlorotica can live entirely on solar power for up to a year. You know what this means, ...
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The things that live in a world without light (1)
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From National Geographic: A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible’s camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—”elbowed” Magnapinna squid. In a brief video from the dive recently obtained by National Geographic News, one of the rarely seen squid loiters above the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico on November 11, 2007. The clip—from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle)—arrived after ...
You-A：网址有啊！有理链接强力打造 (2)
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网址有啊！YOU-A.NET，有理链接，强力打造。汇集了有理链接至开站以来所介绍过的所有精选奇趣网站，超过300个，向后与有理链接同步更新，广大网友可以更直接方便的访问各种实用网站，网址有啊以简约实用为设计理念，但简约而不简单，力争打造一个与众不同的Hao123。 猛击进入you-a.net 可以买得到的创意玩意，尽在 有理链接 ……
Top 10 Amazing Biology Videos (46)
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Cyborgs, stem cells, glowing mice, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about biology. Here are some of our favorite clips from the life sciences. UPDATE: There appears to be a technical problem with the videos here. They'll be back up shortly. Our apologies. Only videos five through ten are currently available. 10. Immune Cell Chasing a Bacterium 9. How High Speed Gene Sequencing Works 8. Shrimp Jogging on a Treadmill 7. ...
Area schools show off instruction innovation (1)
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ASHEVILLE -- At Community High School, students are raising chickens. Asheville High students are designing a solar-powered car, and students at the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville are recording plays and audio essays to learn American literature.
Resurrecting mammoths (1)
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From LiveScience: Extinct Woolly Mammoth’s DNA Mapped Scientists for the first time have unraveled much of the genetic code of an extinct animal, the ice age’s woolly mammoth, and with it they are thawing Jurassic Park dreams. Their groundbreaking achievement has them contemplating a once unimaginable future when certain prehistoric species might one day be resurrected. “It could be done. The question is, just because we might be able to do it one day, should ...
The Digital Home Video: Hands-on with Resistance 2 (1)
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Resistance 2 is here and I take a look at it in my latest Digital Home video. Even better news: you can now subscribe to this show. Just add it up right here! And as always, drop me a line or follow me on Twitter!
How Biology and Technology Shape Sex and War (16)
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Humans and chimps, our closest relatives, share a curious trait: We organize to kill members of our own species. A new book, Sex and War, delves into how the most intelligent apes on Earth, essentially alone in the animal kingdom, evolved the ability to organize for extreme violence. UC Berkeley obstetrician, Malcolm Potts and science writer Thomas Hayden take a wide-ranging look at the many places that biology intersects with war. But the most fascinating ...
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Kamyar said:
...the most destructive weapon might be a hormone, not a bomb.
Kitty Born With Two Faces Is Cute, Meow-y - Geekologie (8)
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A kitten was born in Australia on Wednesday with two faces. It is super cute and made me wish all pets had more faces. But then I realized how expensive it would be to feed all those extra faces, and decided it wasn't so awesome afer all. The two-faced feline was one of three in a litter and appears to be doing well. It hasn't got a name yet, but the owner is thinking of ...
iGEM, or How to Build a Biological Organism During Summer (7)
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The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition brings undergraduates from around the world to MIT's campus to share the results of a summer's worth of synthetic biology research. Each team tries to create the best synthetic organism. Here you can see the iGEM participants (photo courtesy of David Appleyard and iGEM). I'm one of the folks in black up in front. (No, the other one.) Find out what these students cooked up over the summer, and ...
Sen. Ted Stevens officially loses reelection bid (2)
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Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate and a recently convicted felon, has officially lost his reelection bid to Democrat Mark Begich. Stevens has long been a thorn in the side to environmentalists, most notably for leading the charge to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. source: Associated Press
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In this post I'll show how I've implemented a custom function in ARQ, the SPARQL/Jena engine for querying a RDF graph. The new function implemented tests if a node in the NCBI-taxonomy hierarchy as a given ancestor.RequirementsJena/ARQ: http://jena.sourc... java 1.6 compilernodes.dmp , the ncbi taxonomy downloaded from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/Here are a sampleShared by _alf (4)Contribute commentWired Top Stories (67) permalink
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