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Yi Lu and his team at the University of Illinois in Urbana has laid the foundation for a new generation of rapid diagnostic tests that are as easy to handle as a pregnancy test: just dunk them in the sample and see if a colored band appears.

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1. Beaked Whales Perform Extreme Dives to Hunt Deepwater Prey
   10-19-2006 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
   A study of ten beaked whales of two poorly understood species shows they dive much deeper and longer than reported for any other air-breathing species, a finding of particular interest since beaked whales stranded during naval sonar exercises have been reported to have symptoms of decompression sickness.
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2. Can antioxidants protect scuba divers?
   01-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A new study, published in the Journal of Physiology, shows that acute oral intake of largely accepted antioxidants Vitamin C and E prior to a scuba dive can reduce alterations in cardiovascular function, particularly acute endothelial dysfunction, that are caused by a single field air dive.
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3. NASA's robotic sub readies for dive into Earth's deepest sinkhole
   02-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Carnegie Mellon researchers are helping a NASA underwater robot probe Earth's deepest sinkhole -- Zacatón. The bot's journey will take place in May, aided by Carnegie Mellon-designed navigation and mapping software.
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4. NASA-funded robotic sub makes final dive to reach bottom of Earth's deepest sinkhole
   05-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and other institutions begin the final leg of a five-year, NASA-funded mission to reach the bottom of Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, the world's deepest known sinkhole, hoping to learn about Zacatón's geology, geothermal vents and forms of life. Previous expeditions tested the robotic probe that makes the dive, DEPTHX, designed to explore for life in extreme regions on Earth and in outer space.
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5. Watching the Earth from above
   06-25-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
   Understanding the Earth starts with a dive into the unknown. Harry Wexler was the first to fly into a hurricane before he invented today's weather satellite systems, while Paul J. Crutzen left civil engineering to build computer models of the atmosphere and found out what satellites urgently had to look at.
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6. Anna's hummingbird chirps with its tail during display dives
   01-29-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Many of the world's smallest hummingbirds, including the West Coast's Anna's and the East Coast's ruby-throated, execute display dives to seduce females and drive away intruders. A characteristic chirp at the bottom of the Anna's dive, thought by many to be vocal, has now been shown to result from a split-second flaring of the tail feathers. UC Berkeley tests prove that tail feather vanes act like a reed in a clarinet to produce the beep.
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