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Bug's View Inspires New Digital Camera's Unique Imaging Capabilities
May 1, 2013 An insect-inspired device uses hemispherical, compound optics to capture wide, undistorted fields of ... > full storyMore: -
Sushi for Peccaries?
April 29, 2013 It turns out the white-lipped peccary —- a piglike animal from Central and South America —- will settle for fish when fruits (its main food) are no longer on the menu, according to ... > full story -
Sea Turtles Benefiting from Protected Areas
April 29, 2013 Nesting green sea turtles are benefiting from marine protected areas by using habitats found within their boundaries, according to a new study that is the first to track the federally protected ... > full story -
Why Do Guppies Jump?
April 25, 2013 Pet guppies often jump out of their tanks. One such accident inspired a new study which reveals how guppies are able to jump so far, and suggests why they do ... > full story -
With Wave of the Hand, Researchers Create Touch-Based Interfaces
April 25, 2013 Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. Now researchers have demonstrated how ... > full story -
Remembering the Race for the Secret of Life
April 24, 2013 On 25 April 1953, three seminal papers describing the structure of DNA were published in Nature. Sixty years later, Genome Biology is publishing an in depth interview with one of the two surviving ... > full story -
Hubble Captures Comet ISON
April 23, 2013 When the Hubble picture of ISON was taken on April 10, the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun. Hubble photographed a jet blasting dust ... > full story -
A Beautiful Species of Tree Iguana Redescribed 179 Years After Its Discovery
April 23, 2013 The tree iguana, Liolaemus nigromaculatus, was the second species of the genus Liolaemus to be described and the nominal species of the group nigromaculatus. However, since its description, no ... > full story -
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
April 22, 2013 Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story -
Engineer Working to Put More Science Behind Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
April 18, 2013 Scientists are working to put more fluid dynamics behind the bloodstain pattern analysis used at crime scenes. They are developing instruments and methods to produce, study and analyze ... > full story
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