Raising oysters and clams in the same area isn’t common, but a new study shows it works—and could benefit shellfish farmers’ bottom line.
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Oysters and clams do just fine when farmed together
Posted by Todd Bates-Rutgers on April 2nd, 2020
Posted in Physics, Science General, Technology 
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No Comments »There’s a weird link between coffee and cryptocurrency
Posted by Amy Adams-Stanford on April 24th, 2018
Swirling liquids, such as coffee, follow the same principles as transactions with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. No, but really.
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Posted by Scientific American Content: Global on February 19th, 2018
David N. Schwartz talk about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.
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Posted in Environment, Physics, Science General, Technology Tags: enrico, Enrico Fermi, everything, who knew everything No Comments »This keeps older adults from ‘saving’ memories during sleep
Posted by Yasmin Anwar-UC Berkeley on December 18th, 2017
New research examines how the aging brain prevents older adults from moving new memories into long-term storage, leading to “overnight forgetting.”
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Posted by Lydia Chain on December 4th, 2017
This year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map…
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