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POPSDiscovering Cool Pics & Podcasts This is part of the National Science Foundation website where you can listen to podcasts. There are also thousands of really fantastic images sent in from researchers all around Earth. You can get an rss feed.
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POPSTag, Your It! Where is the X-Prize for the ethicists who are able to inform the public what will be the social, moral, biological, and political possiblities of this DNA tagging?
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POPSMolecular Walker Takes Baby Steps Various molecular tools have already been invented, and this is just the latest sets of chemicals, those in DNA, that can be programmed to move on their own.
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POPSPower-UP for Clean Water This is a great innovation. It is reminiscent of those bike powered generators from the 1980's that parents put on TV's and electric devices to use idle energy from children/people watching TV.
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POPSKiss of the Assassin Observing the habitat of the Assassin bug and counting the number of bugs noted by exterminators has been tested as a very inexpensive, yet accurate method to determine if children need to be tested for the presence of the parasite, a protozoan called Trypanosoma cruzi. Good news for the people in Peru and other South American countries plagued by Chaga's Disease.
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POPSZero-G Germs Return to Earth I am always glad when the researchers look into the smallest of living organisms to see how bacteria will cope and can humans survive in space over the long term, as the immune system becomes suppressed over time.
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