Science
First Lungless Frog Found
by John Roach - National Geographic News
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The first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs has been found in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
The frog, named Barbourula kalimantanensis, gets all its oxygen through its skin.
“Nobody knew about the lunglessness before […]
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‘Extinct’ Elephant May Have Been Found Again — on a Different Island
by ScienceBlog.com
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The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, suggests an article co-authored by World Wildlife Fund […]
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Nano Switch Hint at Future Chips
by Darren Waters - BBC News
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Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon.
The transistor, essentially an on/off switch, has been made using graphene, a two-dimensional material first discovered only four years […]
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Solar System’s ‘look-alike’ found
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by Paul Rincon
Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.
They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun.
Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested […]
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The Ultimate Paper Airplane
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by Gregory Mone
Japanese scientists team up with origami masters to launch paper airplanes in space.
Japan’s space agency gave it the OK. A famous astronaut says he’d get involved. They even tested a prototype in a wind tunnel. Still, it does sound nearly too off-the-wall to be true: Japanese scientists have […]
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Tall Tales: Giant Squid
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by Hayley Birch
Are the oceans hiding monsters of epic proportions? And will they survive long enough for us to track them down?
FirstScience - Hemmed in on all sides by two metre-long, tentacled sea demons, Scott Cassell must have thought he’d breathed his last…
30 minutes later he emerged from what would have been his […]
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Stuff of Life (but Not Life Itself) Is Detected on a Distant Planet
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by Dennis Overbye
New York Times - Astronomers reported Wednesday that they had made the first detection of an organic molecule, methane, in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and had confirmed the presence of water there, clearing the way for a bright future of inspecting the galaxy for livable planets, […]
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