Scientists take first step towards creating ‘Inorganic Life’

inorganic lifeSomething totally new.

Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have taken their first tentative steps towards creating ‘life’ from inorganic chemicals potentially defining the new area of ‘inorganic biology’.

Professor Lee Cronin, Gardiner Chair of Chemistry in the College of Science and Engineering, and his team have demonstrated a new way of making inorganic-chemical-cells or iCHELLs…

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Netflix’s price hike to cost the company one million customers

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How have you changed your Netflix account?

Apparently people weren’t messing around when they were complaining about Netflix’s recent price hikes: Netflix says the company expects to lose one million customers because of the pricing change. One million!

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Escaped pet birds are teaching wild birds to speak English

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Polly is gonna talk about the cracker.

Across parts of Australia, reports have been pouring in of strange voices chattering high in the treetops — mysterious, non-sensical conversations in English. But while this phenomenon is certainly quite odd, its explanation isn’t paranormal. It turns out that escaped pet birds, namely parrots and cockatoos, have begun teaching their wild bird counterparts a bit of the language they picked up from their time in captivity — and, according to witnesses, that includes more than a few explicatives…

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New species of Dolphin discovered in Australia

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A fascinating new discovery.

Researchers in Australia say they’ve made a remarkable discovery, identifying for one of the first times in over a hundred years a brand new species of dolphin. And, in addition to being the latest of its kind to be uncovered, this new type of dolphin, namedTursiops australis, is also among the rarest. So far, biologists have only found a handfull of places along the coast of Australia where they exist — and there’s only thought to be around 150 of them in existence…

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For the cheapest airline tickets, start shopping on Tuesday afternoon

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To get the best deal on a domestic airline ticket, there’s a lot of timing to take into consideration. Travel site FareCompare has meticulously gathered all the data to suggest when exactly to start looking for your ticket and when to purchase.
FareCompare says that airfare sales typically are filed late Monday evening, so you should start looking and shopping for domestic tickets between Tuesday morning and 3pm EST…

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Finally, YouTube will let you edit your videos online

If you upload your videos to YouTube—or most video sharing sites for that matter—there isn’t much you can do to improve them after the fact. Starting today, though, YouTube will finally provide basic tools to make your kitty videos suck less.

YouTube is rolling out the new feature in the form of a simple “Edit Video” button on your My Videos page. It’s a little like if they just took their cloud-based editor and sucked it back into the site…

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