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The Human Spark

08.12.2010 - What is the nature of human uniqueness? Where did it ignite, and when? And why? This excellent 3-part series explores this mystery.

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High-Speed Filter Uses Electrified Nanostructures to Purify Water at Low Cost

by Staff
Science Daily/Stanford University, 09.01.2010

 Cheap, simple, and more than 80,000 times faster than other filtration methods, a new silver and cotton filter promises to change the way water is cleaned in the developing world.
 

Oil and Water: Recovery of the Gulf (Cogito Web Event)

Cogito, 09.01.2010

 Can the Gulf of Mexico recover from this spring’s massive oil spill? Don’t miss this Cogito Web event.
 
Feast

The First Feast?

by Michael Balter
ScienceNOW, 08.30.2010

 When did fine dining become an event beyond simple survival? Archaeologists in Israel may have a clue.
 
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Why Fish in the Arctic Don’t Freeze

by Duncan Geere
Wired.co.uk, 08.26.2010

 A natural antifreeze in the bloodstream of Arctic fish keeps them from freezing solid.
 
Extrasolar planet (artist's rendering). Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)

One Big Family: Exoplanet System Hosts at Least 5, and Possibly 7, New Worlds

by John Matson
Scientific American, 08.24.2010

 A planetary system 125 light-years away could represent the largest collection of known worlds outside the solar system
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Featured Young Scientist

Raina Jain. Credit: Biotechnology Institute 2010 International BioGENEius Challenge
Raina Jain, a junior from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, won the 2010 sanofi-aventis International BioGENEius Challenge for her research on Bioglass.
 
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Eric Sauer at BlizzCon 2009 Gamer Heaven: Report from a Gaming Convention
By the thousands, gamers and members of the gaming industry converged at the 2009 BlizzCon Convention in Anaheim, California. Cogito member and game enthusiast Eric Sauer shares what he learned there.
 
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