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High Energy Rechargeable Lithium Air Batteries Lithium air batteries strip electrons from lithium and shuttle them to oxygen, using the resulting current to drive electrical devices. The use of...
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Scientific research is a large and sprawling endeavor, with thousands of laboratories around the world studying their own ultra-specialized piece of a much more significant whole. It’s the logical...
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Orion Nebula Green and Purple The central region of the Orion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) as seen in the near-infrared by the High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) instrument at ESO's Very Large...
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Eye
Scientists collected both eyes from the whale. Here's the right one. Below, a seagull stands near the spot where the whale's left eye used to be. (Photos: Nadia Drake/WIRED)
View ArticleRolling the whale
After rolling the whale, scientists needed the excavator's help teasing the intestines from the carcass. (Photo: Nadia Drake/WIRED)
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After rolling it up the beach, and before burying the whale, researchers climbed into the animal's thorax, looking for any clues they might have missed. (Photo: Nadia Drake/WIRED)
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The first steps include removing much of the whale's blubber. (Photo: Nadia Drake/WIRED)
View ArticleAug 20, 2013
Wispy Dione The famed wispy terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is front and center in this recent Cassini spacecraft image. The "wisps" are fresh fractures on the trailing hemisphere of the moon's icy...
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The Polypus Lobsters are delicious. Giant lobsters several times the size of a man, and indeed capable of plucking sailors off boats, are completely unacceptable, though probably still delicious. Olaus...
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The Sea Swine Up until the era of modern science, folks used to think that every land animal had a corresponding version in the ocean. And a sea pig, according to Olaus, would look a little something...
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Imagine you’re a 16th century Scandinavian sailor. Alright, I’ll help you. Just pretend you’re drunk and sway around a bit like you’re on a bobbing ship. It’d also help to have scurvy, so imagine...
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The Sea Rhinoceros In keeping with the marine counterparts for land animals theory, Olaus here has constructed his idea of a sea rhinoceros, which also assumes many characteristics of sea horses,...
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Pristers Pristers appear three separate times in the Carta Marina, and in each place they’re causing trouble for sailors by either firing ship-sinking torrents of water out of their dual blowholes or...
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The Sea Serpent You can thank the Carta Marina for popularizing what is perhaps the most famous of marine monsters: the sea serpent. Olaus’ beast is some 200 feet long and 20 feet thick, with “hair...
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The Rosmarus We might call the rosmarus the dandy of the high seas – a sea dandy, if you will. Just look at that coat. All swirly and resplendent. Anyway, like the sea swine, the rosmarus seems to have...
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