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1. Educated People Cope Better With Dementia (Medicine)
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 2:32 pm in Medicine
Educated people are better able to cope with the physical effects of dementia, and even one extra year of education can significantly cut the risk of developing the brain-wasting disease, scientists said on Monday.
2. Iran Aims To Put Man in Space by 2019 (Space)
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 8:52 am in Space
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Iran would send its first manned shuttle into space by 2019, Iran's English-language Press TV reported.
3. Crusader Risks Prison to Save Chinese Lake (Nature)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:15 am in Nature
A former chinese factory worker declares war against the destruction of one of the largest freshwater lakes in China, and pays the price for his loud voice against industrial development and pollution.
4. Missing Piece Found in Particle Puzzle (Space)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:14 am in Space
(Reuters) - Research scientists announced on Monday they had identified the missing piece of a major puzzle involving the make-up of the universe by observing a neutrino particle change from one type to another.
5. Frozen Blood A Source of Stem Cells (Medicine)
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 8:37 pm in Medicine
Frozen blood from stored samples can be used to make cells resembling stem cells, researchers said on Thursday -- opening a potential new and easier source for the valued cells.
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Latest Videos

July 29, 2010 7:35 am
Posted By nova in Life
This incredible plant convinces wasps into thinking they're a female and loads them with pollen when they try to mate with it.
July 29, 2010 7:25 am
Posted By nova in Nature
TOXIC went to West Virginia to investigate mountain-top removal – which a way of extracting coal from deposits under mountains by blowing the top off of it.
July 26, 2010 8:24 am
Posted By nova in Life
Watch the awesome fight for survival as a grown male polar bear takes on a walrus colony at the edge of the Arctic circle.
July 26, 2010 8:20 am
Posted By nova in Life
Sir David Attenborough narrates this violent and bloody natural history video recording the disturbing scenes of a real Chimpanzee territorial attack.
July 25, 2010 7:19 am
Posted By nova in Biology
Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue.
July 23, 2010 7:26 am
Posted By nova in Space
Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere.
July 23, 2010 6:46 am
Posted By nova in Documentaries
Kon-Tiki is the Academy Award-winning film of an astonishing adventure, a journey spanning 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia by raft.
July 21, 2010 5:52 pm
Posted By nova in Humanity
On Dec 2nd 1984 almost 4,500 people died when poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal India, owned by US company Union Carbide.
July 21, 2010 9:31 am
Posted By nova in Space
This NASA released video outlines some of the hazards (and solutions) to the challenges posed by prolonged radiation exposure in the extreme environments of space.
July 21, 2010 7:58 am
Posted By nova in War
An infrared laser developed by Arizona company Raytheon Missile Systems has been demonstrated shooting down incoming drones over the ocean off the coast of California.

Latest Images

1. Australian Sunrise
Australian Sunrise (Image)

(Captivating sunrise seen from Nudgee Beach, Queensland, Australia.)
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Category: Nature

2. Fire in The Sky
Fire in The Sky (Image)

(A powerfully stunning photo of a crimson lighting storm.)
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Category: Nature

3. Mars Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity
Mars Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity (Image)

(The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite. The team spotted the rock called "Block Island," on July 18, 2009, in the opposite direction from which it was driving. The rover then backtracked some 250 meters (820 feet) to study it closer. -Source NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. )
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Category: Space

4. Inside An Exploding Star
Inside An Exploding Star (Image)

(The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory developed this model of an exploding star's core to help elucidate what happens inside core-collapse supernovae. Source: Argonne National Laboratory (Creative Commons license); Image courtesy Hongfeng Yu.)
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5. Cannabis
Cannabis (Image)

(Cannabis sativa drawing)
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Category: Life

Article: Methane Bubbles in Arctic Seas Stir Warming Fears
Methane Bubbles in Arctic Seas Stir Warming Fears (Article)
(Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.)
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Category: Nature

Video: Epic Voyage of the Kon-Tiki
Epic Voyage of the Kon-Tiki (Video)

(Kon-Tiki is the Academy Award-winning film of an astonishing adventure, a journey spanning 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia by raft.)
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Category: Documentaries


EducatedEarth Blog


(The animals likely died of illness and malnutrition.)
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 12:46 pm in Nature.
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(Plastiki, a 60 foot vessel buoyed by over 12,000 2-liter plastic bottles, sailed into the Sydney Harbor today, completing a 130 day, 8000 mile journey from San Francisco. )
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 8:50 am in Humanity.
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(It was bright, fierce and thankfully short. A mysterious event in a distant galaxy has blasted our solar system with the most powerful burst of X-rays ever recorded, temporarily blinding an astronomical satellite.)
Posted on July 25, 2010 at 10:48 am in Astronomy.
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(This Popular Science special feature from 1925 gives a rare insight into that generation’s hopes and dreams for the future. Click the pic below for the full image!)
Posted on July 23, 2010 at 8:51 am in Humanity.
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(Researchers have found ways to use magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects.)
Posted on July 23, 2010 at 8:51 am in Tech.
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(Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world's forests.)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:48 am in Nature.
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(Two new fish species — with pancake-flat bodies, wiggling lures on their faces, and elbowed fins for “walking” on the seafloor — have been discovered in the path of spewing Gulf of Mexico oil.)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:13 am in Nature.
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(A strong earthquake of 6.7 magnitude today rattled coastal Alaska, authorities said, but no significant damage or tidal wave threat was reported. )
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:11 am in Nature.
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(To elude predators, the octopus will change color in an instant and even alter its shape to look like other sea animals. Does its magic put the chameleon to shame?)
Posted on July 18, 2010 at 6:37 am in Nature.
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(As the Gulf of Mexico entered a third day free of fresh oil from BP’s blown-out well, the government on Saturday extended a test that has so far shown no signs of damage in the 13,000-foot-deep hole.)
Posted on July 18, 2010 at 6:36 am in Nature.
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(Scientists have discovered the first cometary planet, one with a huge tail, a stream of gas being ripped off by solar winds at 22,000 miles per hour. This jovian world is located 153 light-years from Earth.)
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 8:27 am in Astronomy.
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(Gorillas apparently can play tag much like humans do, scientists now reveal. )
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 8:22 am in Nature.
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(NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Dates For Final Two Flights )
Posted on July 14, 2010 at 9:29 am in Astronomy.
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(Giant propeller-shaped structures have been discovered in the rings of Saturn and appear to be created by a new class of hidden moons, NASA announced Thursday. )
Posted on July 13, 2010 at 7:58 am in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 44 Hits.
(Researchers have discovered antibodies that can protect against a wide range of AIDS viruses and said they may be able to use them to design a vaccine against the fatal and incurable virus.)
Posted on July 13, 2010 at 7:58 am in Medicine.
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