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The Beetle That Thought It Was A Precious Stone
circletimessquare writes "Queensland, Australia is well-known as one of the most important sources for opal in the world. Apparently Queensland has another untapped source of opal recently discovered in its backyard, except this source is not the providence of geology, but biology. A native weevil of Queensland grows opal on it's back shell! Implications for research into nanotechnology, biotechnology, and photonic computing are implied in the article. The journal Nature is publishing the more rigorous scientific write-up of the findings."
...in Montana we have diamond-backed rattlesnakes.
For using "nano" three different ways in six different places, the author should opalogize.
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I thought it was spelled 'biotch'. Move along, nothing to see here. Apologies. My bad. I take it back.
"Implications for research into nanotechnology, biotechnology, and photonic computing are implied in the article."
A blog like any other.
Where's the dividend in opal? What we need is a crack beetle. Get to it, Aussies!
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