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Building Snapchat has taught us a lot about what makes conversation special. When we first started working on an application for sharing disappearing pictures, we had no idea how much we would learn. Our classmates were quick to point out that you could always take a screenshot. That led...

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Variety of #flowers from my #garden #barbados #plants #nature #nokialumia925 #nokiaprocamapp #manualcontrols #nofiliters (at lower estate)

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COMMENTARY: God didn’t choose sides at Gettysburg A. James Rudin, religionnews.com

(RNS) During the July 1-3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, there were Christians and Jews on both sides of the conflict who knew the answer to the question “Whose side is God on?”Or at least they thought they did.Statue of Father William Corby at…

President Lincoln nailed it when he said, “God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. … The prayers of both could not be answered.” As Lincoln came to see it, the Civil War was a national atonement for the sin of slavery.

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Space Wind Really Does Exist By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

We detect a plasmaspheric breeze.

More than 20 years ago, researchers pro­posed the exis­tence of a space wind--a steady flow of charged particles--inside the Earth's mag­ne­tos­phere, the region of space gov­erned by our mag­net­ic field. After…

This cool space breeze is made up of material from the plasmasphere-- basically a giant space donut of dense, cold plasma that wraps around the Earth, with us as its donut hole. The material in the plasmasphere doesn't always stay put in its neat, donut-like shape, with some plasma escaping in plumes out toward the magnetosphere, the larger surrounding bubble of the Earth's magnetic field.

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Throwing helped our species to evolve By Radhika Sanghani, telegraph.co.uk

Throwing objects quickly has helped humans become one of the most successful species on the planet, a study suggests.

Throw­ing helped our pri­mate ances­tors to defend them­selves against dan­ger­ous preda­tors and boost brain power, sci­en­tis…

Dr Roach told the newspaper: “When humans throw, we first rotate our arms backwards away from the target. It is during this 'armcocking' phase that humans stretch the tendons and ligaments crossing their shoulder and store elastic energy.

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Scientists Decode DNA Of 700,000-Year-Old Horse By Francie Diep, popsci.com

The oldest sequenced genome will help researchers understand horse evolution.

So sci­en­tists have decod­ed the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse. It wasn't enough to fig­ure out exact­ly what the horse looked like—hair color, for exam­ple, wil…

Scientists have decoded the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse. It wasn't enough to figure out exactly what the horse looked like—hair color, for example, will have to wait for further analysis—but it helped the researchers come up with several new ideas about horse evolution.

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bbc.co.uk

In a pioneering experiment, scientists in Japan clone a mouse from white blood cells collected from the tail of a living donor.

The female mouse lived a normal lifespan and could give birth to young, say the researchers.

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Plants do math to get through the night EarthSky, earthsky.org

The calculation allows them to use up their starch reserves at a constant rate so that they run out almost precisely at dawn.“This is the first concrete example in a fundamental biological process of such a sophisticated arithmetic calculation.” s…

Even plants are good at mathematics. New research shows that to prevent starvation at night, plants perform accurate arithmetic division.

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The most high-res 3D map of the human brain By Michelle Starr June 21, 2013, cnet.com.au

(Cred­it: Amunts, Zilles, Evans, et al.)

Sci­en­tists have cre­at­ed the world's first 3D dig­i­tal recon­struc­tion of the human brain that shows anato­my on the micro­scop­ic level.

When it comes to the human brain, there's a l…

Scientists have created the world's first 3D digital reconstruction of the human brain that shows anatomy on the microscopic level.

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New research sheds light on why some birds have lost their penises over the course of evolution.

Land fowl, such as chickens, have normally developing penises as early embryos, but only have rudimentary organs as adults. New research sheds light on why some birds have lost their penises over the course of evolution. #science #nature #biology #evolution

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Living in the mountains can change the way you speak By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk

Living at high altitudes can change the way people speak and may help to explain why different languages have evolved around the world.

Sci­en­tists have found that lan­guages that use "ejec­tive" con­so­nants – rapid bursts of air exhaled while…

Scientists have found that languages that use "ejective" consonants – rapid bursts of air exhaled while making a sound – tend to be spoken at higher altitudes.

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Researchers have for the first time unravelled the complex structure of the inner protein shell of the HIV molecule.

Because HIV have NO permanent shape for the the last 30+ Years finding a vaccine proves elusive. But researchers have for the first time unravelled the complex structure of the inner protein shell of HIV. It was already known that the capsid, which sits inside the outer membrane of the virus, was a cone-shaped shell made up of protein sub-units in a lattice formation. Until now the exact structure had proved elusive because of the capsid's large size and irregular shape.

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Researchers Discover A Mammoth Carcass Full Of Blood Jennifer Welsh, businessinsider.com

This is a vial of blood from the frozen car­cass of a 10,000 year old Siber­ian mam­moth.

A Russ­ian team from Yakut­sk found the car­cass in the frozen tun­dra of the New Siber­ian Islands.

"We sup­pose that the mam­moth fell into water or go…

Blood and muscle tissue, discovered from a 10,000 year Woolly mammoth. 'It is the first time we managed to obtain mammoth blood. No-one has ever seen before how the mammoth's blood flows'.

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The Supreme Court of El Salvador refuses to allow a seriously ill woman to have an abortion, despite the unborn baby having a terminal defect.

Take your rosaries out of women ovaries~ This is how religious conformity practices degenerate human life. The Supreme Court of El Salvador has refused to allow a seriously ill pregnant woman to have an abortion, even though her foetus has almost no chance of survival. Lawyers for the young woman - who suffers from lupus and kidney failure - had argued that continuing the pregnancy would place her life at risk.

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Scientists Have Solved The Mystery Of The White Tiger's Coat Tanya Lewis, LiveScience, businessinsider.com

By: Tanya Lewis, Live­Science Staff Writer

Pub­lished: 05/23/2013 12:21 PM EDT on Live­Science

The strik­ing­ly beau­ti­ful, milky coats of white tigers are caused by a sin­gle change in a known pig­ment gene, a new study finds.

Since their…

Science solving problems for over 200 years. But the genetic basis of tiger whiteness was not known. (A recessive trait will only show up if the individual gets two genes for that trait, one each from mom and dad.)