Category: New Discoveries

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Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries

iPhone 4 and a sensor tattoo creates diabetic blood monitor

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Another iPhone medical breakthrough!

Diabetics have a problem dealing with sugar because they don’t produce enough insulin (Type 1) or any insulin that is produced gets no reaction from the person’s cells (Type 2). Treatment is mainly through management of blood sugar levels which if done properly can stop many of the complications.

It’s the monitoring of those blood sugar levels that researchers are working towards making as simple and fast as possible, and the latest idea involves the use of a sensor tattoo and an iPhone 4…

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Analysis, Animals, Crazy Stuff, Current Events, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, New Discoveries

Eek! Mice are evolving an immunity to poison!

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Feisty little buggers.

The rodents of the future will eat poison pellets like candy, according to new research conducted on mice found in a German bakery. The baker called in an exterminator to rid his business of the pests and discovered, to his horror, that the little buggers weren’t even fazed by bromadiolone, which is a very concentrated and deadly version of the common rat poison warfarin…

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Alternative Transportation, Analysis, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Scientists prove time travel is impossible

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Scientists say time travel is impossible by showing a single photon cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

Physicists in Hong Kong say they have proved that a single photon obeys Einstein’s theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light — demonstrating that outside science fiction, time travel is impossible.

 

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Analysis, Crazy Stuff, Global Warming, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, New Discoveries

From hot nights To dusty days – broken weather records are the new normal

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The red indicates weather stations where U.S. Daily Highest Min Temperature Records were set on July 21, 2011

The 21st of July, it was hotter than hell across much of the Eastern US. Nights, which tend to have the daily minimum, were especially unpleasant. Out of 5,569 daily minimums recorded on the 21st, 188 broke previous records and another 138 tied them (exceeding or equaling, respectively, the previous record for daily minimum temperature)…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries

Punching a hole in time

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Researchers are working on a ‘time cloak.’

Ocean’s Eleven has nothing on this. A robber breaks into a bank safe and returns home, where he activates a device that conceals his earlier burglary, making it look like he never entered the bank in the first place. Such a “time cloak” is still a long way from reality, but researchers have now made an important first step, demonstrating a cloaking device that can hide for a fraction of a second an event that occurs at a specific point in time…

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Analysis, Animals, Food, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries

Is it Vegan? Gelatin made from humans

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Gelatin comes from where!!?

It’s one of those truths that you’d rather not know. That bright red, orange, and green gelatin you slurped down as a child is actually made from animals. Vegans avoid it like the plague because it’s derived from the collagen in an animal’s skin and bones. But what if it was made from humans? How do you categorize it then?

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Famous Inventor, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

123 year old recording may be Edison’s talking doll

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The picture on the shows the original phonograph removed from the doll’s body.

Using advanced imaging technology, scientists have recovered a 123-year-old recording made by Thomas Edison. The recording is believed to be the world’s first attempt at a talking doll and may mark the dawn of the American recording industry.

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Crazy Stuff, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries

The Largest Gun ever built

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One big bang!

In 1939, Adolf Hitler needed to figure out how to get past the French Maginot line, a 1500km defensive wall of fortifications, tank barriers, artillery and machine gun nests running along the French-German and French-Italian borders. Before he figured out to simply run around the line via Belgium, Hitler schemed to destroy it outright…

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