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Scientists in Japan Made a Skin That Replicates Function of Tissue

Scientists in Japan made a skin by first creating 3-Dimentional clusters of cells that looked like womb embryos. These embryo-like cells were then implanted into mice that had...

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Geologists Will Drill into Heart of Dinosaur-Killing Deep Impact

Further research is expected to start in April in Mexico and will be focused on the 66 million-year-old Chicxulub crater that is the site where the dinosaur destroying...

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The World’s First Life-Saving Gene Therapy For Children Has the Green Light

Italian scientists along with SmithGlaxoKline, are likely to have gene therapy approved for use in Europe and many children with faulty genes will benefit. Strimvelis has been endorsed...

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Heart Disease Could be Limited With This New Drug

Heart disease could soon be limited if the drug being tested stops eggs and meat having the choline turned into artery blocking compounds. Last year tests on mice...

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Uncomfortable Truths About Photography

Photography is becoming more popular as a hobby and the development of cameras on phones is helping to get people involved. However, there are still problems and they...

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How Much Money Would be Needed to Build a new New York City

Some people are wondering how much money would be needed to build a new New York City and the surrounding area. This would include roads, trains, bridges and...

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How Neanderthal Left Their Mark on Human Beings

It seems that some people contain a small amount of Neanderthal DNA. Pacific Island dwellers have Denisovans DNA while many others have other genes. Dr. Joshua Akey finds...

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A Trash Incinerator in Norway Begins Carbon-Capture Testing

Since January, there have been attempts made to capture carbon dioxide from burning rubbish. In Oslo’s Klemetsrud incinerator household waste is burned and it is hoped this experiment...

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Germany Needs to Build 3,000 Wind Turbines To Replace a Nuclear Power Plant

Lower Saxony boasts the most productive nuclear power plant ever. In China, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest, but it would be unfair to compare them carefully....

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Technology brings substance to sustainability

Sustainability has been the buzz word for corporations for some time. They want their brand to be known as sustainable, but there have been limitations. The people who...

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The Earth’s Oceans Will Have More Plastic Than Fish by 2050

It has been estimated that we use 300 million tons of plastic per year and often it an item that is used just once. Seabirds are at risk...

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Researcher Used Fluid Dynamics to Explain How Quickly Vampires Could Drain Your Blood

It is 85 years since Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was released and it coincides with some unusual research from students at Leicester University. The Physics and Chemistry Department have...

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