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The latest science extra Geeky Bits news from Sciencebase's David Bradley. The most recent 30 days of news snippets, worthies and oddities, as well as other items of interest that didn't make it on to the Sciencebase Science Blog homepage because I was (a) too busy to do a full write-up (b) too lazy to do a full write-up (c) too bored to do a full write-up. Visit the Science Extra Geeky Bits Archive for all items posted during the last year.
- Zippered Ice Sheets - February 28. 2007 → Icy fingers explanation hints at Antarctic, tectonic, and nanotech insights
- Stop Global Warming, Save Money - February 27, 2007 → Forget global warming, the top 20 will save you money
- Ulcer bacteria not all bad - February 26, 2007 → Could Helicobacter pylori have a good side
- Giant lakes beneath Antarctic ice - February 24, 2007 → Global warming to blame? Nope!
- X-ray Movies - February 23, 2007 → An insider view of animals in motion
- Rubber bands at a stretch - February 22, 2007 → No need to stretch rubber band theory
- F. Albert Cotton dies, age 76 - February, 22, 2007 → Pioneering inorganic chemist dies
- Super Heavy Elemental Discovery - February 22, 2007 → Element 118 redux
- Cut price solar power - February 20, 2007 → CIGS semiconductor could outperform carbon energy
- Drugs cost too much - February 20, 2007 → British users paying over the odds
- Dying Breath of the Sun, February 16, 2007 → Nebulous ending
- Greenpeach stymies nuclear - February 15, 2007 → UK government legal loss to Greenpeace in nuclear power bid
- Quantum leap of faith - Feburary 14, 2007 → D-wave claims commercial quantum computing
- N Korea leaving the nuclear family - February 13, 2007 → North Korea backs down on nukes
- Teraflop chips - February 12, 2007 → Intel announces 10000 chips in one
- Make Fire From Water - February 11, 2007 → An electrolysis fireplace - waste water AND energy
- Peacocks in Pakistan - February 8, 2007 → Peacocks and chickens infected with H5N1
- Evolution Proved - February 8, 2007 → Boy’s skeleton puts paid to ID
- Huggies, 5000 years on - February 7, 2007 → Young couple still hugging after 5000 years
- Astronaut charge - February 7, 2007 → NASA astronaut charged with murder attempt
- Chicken wire nanotechnology - February 5, 2007 → Science student rolls out carbon sheets
- Virgin Stem Cell Bank - February 1, 2007 → Planes, trains, and stem cells
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