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Meet Iowa’s 400,000 Year Old Living Fossil
Northeastern Iowa holds a 400,000 year old time capsule. Rather than vast, flat prairies, this region boasts a rolling landscape of bluffs and ravines spared by the earth-tamping force of the last Ice Age’s glaciers. And nestled in the leaf litter on rubble piles beside the region’s chilly bluffs lives a tightly-coiled, quarter-inch endangered snail.
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Scientists Turned A Normal Jellyfish Into A Speedy Cyborg Jellyfish
Jellyfish are the most efficient swimmers in the ocean, albeit fairly slow ones. Researchers at Stanford University made a jellyfish swim three times faster by sticking a motor to it, creating a biohybrid robot with the jellyfish as the “scaffold.”
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Don’t Claim Purell Protects Against Ebola And MRSA, U.S. Government Warns Company
In what can only be described as an incredible dunk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter to Gojo Industries, maker of Purell hand sanitiser, warning that the company is violating U.S. federal rules by saying its products can kill “99.99% of most common germs that may cause illness in a healthcare…
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This Locked Cabinet Holds The Answer To One Of The Biggest Questions In Particle Physics
A 50-foot ring topped with white insulation sits attached to wires, pipes, and other electrical components in a warehouse on Fermilab’s northern Illinois campus. Scientists taking data with this device have the potential to rock the field of particle physics to its core, but they’re missing a crucial number to make their final calculation: the…