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always fascinated by these... amazing.

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Paint-On Solar Cells Developed
Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light -- electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... ce+News%29


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Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.

It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-pen ... clock.html

wtf

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Scientists doing their first exploring of deep-sea vents in the Antarctic have uncovered a world unlike anything found around other hydrothermal vents, one populated by new species of anemones, predatory sea stars, and piles of hairy-chested yeti crabs.
It was "almost like a sight from another planet," said expedition leader Alex Rogers, a professor of zoology at Oxford University.


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... antarctic/

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tykjen wrote:Supersoldier ants created in the lab by reactivating ancestral genes
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-sup ... stral.html
Ha, I was thinking of posting that.

Reactivating ancestral genes. Interesting stuff. Can't wait for the super-mutants.
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