Detecting food and cosmetic spoilage and contamination. Identifying new medicinal plants in a remote jungle. Authenticating tea and wine. Scientists have developed a low-cost, portable, paper-based sensor that can potentially carry out all of these functions with easy-to-read results.
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People who hear voices that other people can’t hear may use unusual skills when their brains process new sounds, according to new research.
View photos More than 50 chimpanzees are housed at the Great Apes Project (GAP) in Sorocaba, Brazil (AFP Photo/NELSON ALMEIDA) More Sorocaba (Brazil) (AFP) – Marcelino is calling to her, but Cecilia cannot be with him. Not yet. He may be handsome, but she has suffered a lot and isn’t […]
Monsanto logo is displayed on a screen where the stock is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S. on May 9, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo More By Tom Polansek and Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) – With Monsanto Co’s latest flagship weed […]
The last total solar eclipse to pass over North America was in 1979, and one ABC News anchor had high hopes for the generation who would experience the astronomical phenomenon 38 years later. Frank Reynolds covered the eclipse on February 26, 1979. The broadcaster guided viewers as the eclipse approached totality, […]
Sky-gazers on the US West Coast witnessed a rare total solar eclipse earlier today, similar to this one, seen in on August 11 in 1999 at Chambley. More If cloud cover, work or geography stand in the way of witnessing Monday’s solar eclipse, don’t despair. There are plenty of other ways to […]
The total solar eclipse in the US on August 21 is the first eclipse to pass over the United States in the 21st century. More On Monday, August 21, for the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will march across the entire United States. “The Great American […]
Robert: So, I’ll ask the same thing we all asked last week. If you’re there to peacefully protest or counter-protest, why do you need weapons and body armor? Look at the media trying to turn ANTIFA and BLM into martyrs again. Notice how they left out the parts where these […]