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Submission + - Photographer Discovers Mysterious "Bearded" Antelo (treehugger.com)

Submitted by sprinkletown
sprinkletown writes: Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious "bearded" antelope. While one expert suggests the animal might only be suffering from hypertrichosis, a condition once known as werewolf syndrome, Torchio's experience is the only known encounter with such an animal.
Science

Submission + - Federal Judge Bans Genetically Modified Sugar Beet (treehugger.com)

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MikeCapone
MikeCapone writes: "On Friday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White revoked a five-year-old approval of genetically altered sugar beets from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Judge White cited the USDA's insufficient testing of weedkiller-tolerant sugar beets and their possible effects to the environment. Genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets are already planted on more than one million acres of farmland, spanning 10 different states from Michigan to Oregon, present in 95-percent of U.S.-grown sugar beet plants."
Transportation

Submission + - Algorithm Cuts Delays in Half for German Trains (discovery.com) 1

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MikeCapone
MikeCapone writes: "The algorithms have not only cut waiting time between trains from four minutes to two on the Berlin underground network, but have also been used to draw up a new timetable for the Dutch national railway system, which handles 5,500 trains per day. In Switzerland, the system has been used to optimise a schedule so that additional trains may operate on high-risk sections of track, while trials at the Italian stations of Palermo and Genoa have reduced delays by 25%."
NASA

Submission + - NASA Creates First Global Forest Map Using Lasers (treehugger.com)

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MikeCapone
MikeCapone writes: "Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world's forests. The data was collected from NASA's ICESat, Terra and Aqua satellites. The latter two satellites are responsible for most of NASA's Gulf spill imagery. The data collected will help scientists understand how the world's forests both store and process carbon. While there are many local and regional canopy maps, this is the very first global map using a uniform method for measure."

Submission + - Mud-Loving Bacteria Increases Fuel Cell Output by (gas2.org)

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jerryjamesstone
jerryjamesstone writes: "Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst evolved a new strain of the Geobacter microbe that increases power output per cell by 800%. The hairy mud-loving microbe uses its hairlike filamentsâ"called piliâ"to produce an electric current from both mud and waste water. The pili are only 5 nanometers in diameter (20,000 times smaller than a human hair); theyâ(TM)re also a thousand times longer than they are wide."
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Is this thing on?

(I wonder how many people post useless things like this as their first journal entry. Oh well...)

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