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Transparent Ants

No, this isn’t a Photoshop enhanced image, but rather ants with real translucent abdomens. That’s right, “they can be filled with colorful liquid to make them any color you want!” Dr. Mohamed Babu of Mysore, India shot these incredible photographs, taken as these unusual ants sipped from colorful piles of sugar water. He says that [...]

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Innovative Soda Can is Reusable, Biodegradable

Unlike other soda cans, this one is “made of PLA yet it’s fully insulated and can be heated up to 110ºF; it even squishes like an aluminum can except it’s 100% organic and biodegradable.” No word yet on availability. [Source]

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Peering Inside a Black Hole

Black holes may not be what they seem. PhysOrg reports that “a new infrared image has captured the center of our galaxy in never-before-seen detail–showing stars and gas swirling into the super massive black hole that lurks at the heart of our own Milky Way.” Video after the break. “We can’t actually see a black [...]

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Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project Approved

Finally, “Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the first offshore wind farm in the United States Wednesday, a move that ends a nearly decade-long political battle over installing turbines in the waters just off Cape Cod and could pave the way for significant offshore wind development elsewhere in the nation.” Video after the break. In approving [...]

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China Earthquake Today News

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake “struck Wednesday morning in one of the most inaccessible reaches of China, Qinghai province’s Yushu county; the 100,000 people in the area are mostly Tibetan, many of them making their living herding yaks and sheep.” Video after the break. Houses of mud and wooden beams gave way almost immediately when the [...]

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