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- Ancient seagrass holds secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth
- Low-cost instrument developed by high school students could aid severe weather research
- Super dog: Bud Light’s rescue dog ‘Weego’ fetches Cocky Award
- New stinky flower: Our amorphophallus is smaller, but it stinks like its big cousin
- Online dating research shows Cupid's arrow is turning digital
- Quarter of tweets not worth reading, Twitter users tell researchers
| Ancient seagrass holds secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST It's big, it's old and it lives under the sea -- and now an international research collaboration has confirmed that an ancient seagrass holds the secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth. Ancient giant Posidonia oceanica reproduces asexually, generating clones of itself. A single organism -- which has been found to span up to 15 kilometers in width and reach more than 6,000 metric tonnes in mass -- may well be more than 100,000 years old.  |
| Low-cost instrument developed by high school students could aid severe weather research Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:18 AM PST A group of high school students designed, built and tested a low-cost device that monitors the buildup of electrical charge in clouds. A network of such field mill devices could be used to learn more about the lightning that is part of severe weather.  |
| Super dog: Bud Light’s rescue dog ‘Weego’ fetches Cocky Award Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:56 AM PST Students in the nation's oldest and maybe still the only course on Super Bowl Advertising rated the big game's commercials in the 9th annual Super Ad Poll.  |
| New stinky flower: Our amorphophallus is smaller, but it stinks like its big cousin Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:55 AM PST The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A botanist has discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky.  |
| Online dating research shows Cupid's arrow is turning digital Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:25 AM PST Online dating has not only shed its stigma, it has surpassed all forms of matchmaking in the United States other than meeting through friends, according to a new analysis of research on the burgeoning relationship industry.  |
| Quarter of tweets not worth reading, Twitter users tell researchers Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:07 AM PST Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn't mean they always like what they get. Researchers found that users say only a little more than a third of the tweets they receive are worthwhile. Other tweets are either so-so or, in one out of four cases, not worth reading at all.  |
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