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Baffling black blob floating near Florida
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Fri, 2002-03-29 07:28
Source: CNN
Researchers who have been studying a giant, mysterious area of "black water" in Florida Bay say it seems to be associated with a diatom, a type of algae.
The algae was found in the water, according to Scott Willis at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the black water may be an algal bloom -- an explosion of microscopic marine life. Algal blooms are not rare in Florida waters, but blooms of this size are.
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Up, Up and Away
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Thu, 2002-03-28 07:20
Source: LA Times
Margaret Wertheim is curating a show on the work of "outsider physicist" James Carter, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, opening April 20. In Carter's theory of physics, gravity does not exist at all
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Scientists test first human cyborg
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Mon, 2002-03-25 07:15
Source: CNN
British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer.
The ground-breaking surgery on Professor Kevin Warwick effectively makes him the world's first cyborg -- part human, part machine.
Although a long way from fictional characters The Terminator or the Six Million Dollar Man, it is hoped that readings will be taken from the implant in his arm of electrical impulses coursing through his nerves.
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Fossil skull fuels debate over human origin
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Fri, 2002-03-22 08:03
Source: CNN
L33tdawg: Looks like the Chemical Brothers were right -- It began in Africa-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca.... uhmz nevermind. :)
A million-year-old skull found in Ethiopia confirms the theory that modern man evolved from a single pre-human species that developed in Africa and migrated throughout much of the world, scientists say.
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Home PCs race to find anthrax cure
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Sat, 2002-03-09 19:02
Source: ZDNet
Scientists using the power of more than a million home computers, all linked together and cranking along as one, have come up with thousands of possible compounds that could be developed as a cure for anthrax, researchers said Friday.
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