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Sensing Magnets: Navigation in Desert Ants | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network

Sensing Magnets: Navigation in Desert Ants | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network | Science News | Scoop.it
The more scientists discover about desert ants, the more impressive they seem. Decades of research have established that ants use path integration - an innate form ...
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Edward Linacre: it's possible to get water from thin air

Edward Linacre:  it's possible to get water from thin air | Science News | Scoop.it
Edward Linacre tells Ian Tucker how droughts inspired him to invent a condensation system that produces irrigation water from the atmosphere...
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Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery

Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery | Science News | Scoop.it

More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end.

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SunGlacier Aspires To Deep Freeze The Desert : Discovery News

SunGlacier Aspires To Deep Freeze The Desert : Discovery News | Science News | Scoop.it
A giant dune-spanning, solar-powered leaf could turn even the most parched desert outpost into a fertile oasis of ice.

The concept (and the above image) certainly seems like a scene Salvador Dali would have painted, however, this is no surrealist figment of the imagination. It's an actual project called SunGlacier that Dutch artist, Ap Verheggen, has hatched with Cofely Refrigeration to make the impossible possible.

 

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