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Hawking Knows Holes, Finding Cancer’s Weakness, Shocking Shark Cull, Flirtatious Copepods, The Human Pole, Making Memory Glow, Remember Your Fisetin, Zom-Bees Go East, Visions Of Mantis Shrimp, Defining Nightmares, Genes For Diet, And Much More…
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Apparently Hawking Knows
There is no longer any such thing as a “Classical” black hole, according to Steven Hawking. In fact, in his recent Archiv.org preprint, he surmises that there is no event horizon, but rather only an apparent horizon. This new view of black holes comes as physicists try to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity around these massive gravitational objects.
The latest in the shark cull
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-shark-australia-cull.html
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-anti-shark-devices-popular-maui.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-western-australia-shark-bait-zones.html
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-shark-experts-humane-culling.html
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Mantis Shrimp’s vision
… not as fancy-shmancy as we thought…
Glowing Memories
Using fluorescent proteins, scientists can now watch memories take shape in neurons.
What Makes A Nightmare?
A study of dream logs tells researchers what makes nightmares worse than bad dreams.
Memory Supplement?
Memories stayed sharp in mice with Alzheimer’s disease given a supplement called fisetin.
Genes For Your Diet
A collection of genes was found to impact which diets delayed aging and death in C. elegans.
Copepod Sex
They use hormones, too.
1st Zom-Bees on the East Coast
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