Tag: change
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Look inside, to see the stars…
Ancient rises in sea levels and global warming are partially attributable to cyclical activity below Earth’s surface, researchers from New York University and Ottawa’s Carleton University have concluded in a geological study. [1] Changes within deep inside related to phenomena seen on the outside. Too simple to be wrong. And the simple things are the…
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Matter into antimatter and vice-versa…
A particle with an identity crisis could provide the next big discovery at the world’s largest particle accelerator. Researchers report online March 5 in Physical Review Letters that the D meson has been caught in the act of flipping between matter and antimatter. (1) Change is shirfing between states. What happens if you constantly change from one…
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Bacteria, Alchemy, humans…
Infectious bacteria have for the first time been caught performing “biological alchemy” to transform parts of a host body into those more suited to their purposes, by a team in Edinburgh. The study, in the journal Cell, showed leprosy-causing bacteria turning nerves into stem cells and muscle. [1] Change is part of the world. And those…
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From an apple that is not an apple to death that is not death…
Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. (OSF) has created a genetically modified apple that does not brown after being cut [1]. Is an apple that does not turn brown after being cut an apple? What are the characterisitcs an apple has? How many characteristics of an apple can we change before we stop talking about “apples”? Are…
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