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NASA's Fermi Finds a 'Transformer' Pulsar
July 22, 2014 — In late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at ... full story -
Bats Use Polarized Light to Navigate: First Mammal Known to Use Polarization Patterns in the Sky to Navigate
July 22, 2014 — The bats use the way the sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a new study has ... full story -
Law of Physics Governs Airplane 'Evolution': Constructal Law Explains Progression of Passenger Jets, Sets Guidelines for Future Aircraft
July 22, 2014 — Scientists have found that a law of physics predicts the evolution of commercial airliners and also provides guidelines for future ... full story -
Asian Genes in European Pigs Result in More Piglets
July 22, 2014 — Pigs that are bred commercially in Europe are found to have a highly varied mosaic of different European and Asian gene variants. The Asian genes in particular result in a large number of piglets in ... full story -
Fly-Inspired Sound Detector: New Device Based on a Fly's Freakishly Acute Hearing for Futuristic Hearing Aids
July 22, 2014 — The fly can pinpoint the location of a chirping cricket with remarkable accuracy because of its freakishly acute hearing, which relies upon a sophisticated sound processing mechanism that really sets ... full story -
Meerkats' Sinister Side Is Secret to Their Success, Study Shows
July 22, 2014 — The darker side of meerkats -- which sees them prevent their daughters from breeding, and kill their grandchildren -- is explained in a new study. Research into the desert creatures -- which live in ... full story -
Boosting the Force of Empty Space: Theorists Propose Way to Amplify Force of Vacuum Fluctuations
July 22, 2014 — Vacuum fluctuations may be among the most counter-intuitive phenomena of quantum physics. Theorists have now proposed a way to amplify their force. The researchers believe that their proposed ... full story -
Innovative System Anticipates Driver Fatigue in the Vehicle to Prevent Accidents
July 22, 2014 — Scientists have created a devise integrated in smart materials capable of monitoring cardiac and respiratory rhythms in order to prevent drivers from falling ... full story -
'Moral Victories' Might Spare You from Losing Again
July 21, 2014 — Coaches tend to overreact to close losses, and their hasty personnel adjustments tend to backfire in the long run, research shows. Researchers focused on whether coaches adjusted their personnel ... full story -
Mammoth and Mastodon Behavior Was Less Roam, More Stay at Home
July 21, 2014 — Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to new research, the famously fuzzy relatives of ... full story -
Try, Try Again? Study Says No: Trying Harder Makes It More Difficult to Learn Some Aspects of Language, Neuroscientists Find
July 21, 2014 — Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language. When it comes to learning languages, adults and children have different strengths. Adults excel at ... full story -
Parents Rank Their Obese Children as 'Very Healthy'
July 21, 2014 — Parents of obese children often do not recognize the potentially serious health consequences of childhood weight gain or the importance of daily physical activity in helping their child reach a ... full story -
New Research Links Bad Diet to Loss of Smell
July 21, 2014 — Could stuffing yourself full of high-fat foods cause you to lose your sense of smell? A new study by neuroscientists says so, and it has researchers taking a closer look at how our diets could impact ... full story -
Seals Forage at Offshore Wind Farms
July 21, 2014 — By using sophisticated GPS tracking to monitor seals' every movement, researchers have shown for the first time that some individual seals are repeatedly drawn to offshore wind farms and ... full story -
Science and Art Bring Back to Life 300-Million-Year-Old Specimens of a Primitive Reptile-Like Vertebrate
July 21, 2014 — Paleontologists have recreated the cranial structure of a 308-million-year-old lizard-like vertebrate that could be the earliest example of a reptile and explain the origin of all vertebrates that ... full story -
Mysterious Dance of Dwarf Galaxies May Force a Cosmic Rethink
July 21, 2014 — The discovery that many small galaxies throughout the universe do not 'swarm' around larger ones like bees do but 'dance' in orderly disc-shaped orbits is a challenge to our ... full story -
Children as Young as Three Recognize 'Cuteness' in Faces of People, Animals
July 21, 2014 — Children as young as three are able to recognize the same ‘cute’ infantile facial features in humans and animals which encourage caregiving behavior in adults, new research has shown. A study ... full story -
Fecal Transplants Let Packrats Eat Poison
July 21, 2014 — Woodrats lost their ability to eat toxic creosote bushes after antibiotics killed their gut microbes. Woodrats that never ate the plants were able to do so after receiving fecal transplants with ... full story -
Healing the Heart With Fat? 18-HEPE Might Help, Study Suggests
July 21, 2014 — Too much dietary fat is bad for the heart, but the right kind of fat keeps the heart healthy, according to a new paper. Scientists in Japan have shown that mice engineered to produce their own EPA ... full story -
New Technique Maps Life's Effects on Our DNA: Powerful Single-Cell Technique to Study Environmental Effects on DNA
July 20, 2014 — Researchers have developed a powerful new single-cell technique to help investigate how the environment affects our development and the traits we inherit from our ... full story
- NASA's Fermi finds a 'transformer' pulsar
- Bats use polarized light to navigate: First mammal known to use polarization patterns in the sky to navigate
- Law of physics governs airplane 'evolution': Constructal law explains progression of passenger jets, sets guidelines for future aircraft
- Asian genes in European pigs result in more piglets
- Fly-inspired sound detector: New device based on a fly's freakishly acute hearing for futuristic hearing aids
- Meerkats' sinister side is secret to their success, study shows
- Boosting the force of empty space: Theorists propose way to amplify force of vacuum fluctuations
- Innovative system anticipates driver fatigue in the vehicle to prevent accidents
- 'Moral victories' might spare you from losing again
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find
- Parents rank their obese children as 'very healthy'
- New research links bad diet to loss of smell
- Seals forage at offshore wind farms
- Science and art bring back to life 300-million-year-old specimens of a primitive reptile-like vertebrate
- Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink
- Children as young as three recognize 'cuteness' in faces of people, animals
- Fecal transplants let packrats eat poison
- Healing the heart with fat? 18-HEPE might help, study suggests
- New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study environmental effects on DNA
- Oceans vital for possibility for alien life
- Astronauts to test free-flying 'housekeeper' robots
- Getting a grip on robotic grasp: New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers
- Revealed: The mystery behind starling flocks
- Nature's strongest glue comes unstuck
- Choosing cheese: Research identifies microbial communities in cheese
- Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how 'man in the moon' formed
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Study led by indigenous people uncovers grizzly bear 'highway' in coastal British Columbia
- Earth-like soils on Mars? Ancient fossilized soils potentially found deep inside impact crater suggest microbial life
- Scientists track gene activity when honey bees do and don't eat honey: Significant differences depending on diet
- Is the universe a bubble? Let's check: Making the multiverse hypothesis testable
- Eye movements reveal difference between love and lust
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Preventing foodborne illness naturally: With cinnamon
- Danish DNA could be key to happiness
- Increased levels of the body's own cannabinoids impair embryonic brain development
- Are ants the answer to carbon dioxide sequestration?
- Fair cake cutting gets its own algorithm
- Humans walking on all fours is not backward evolution
- Squid skin protein could improve biomedical technologies, study shows
- Tooth plaque provides unique insights into our prehistoric ancestors' diet
- 'Obesity paradox': Cardiovascular mortality lowest among overweight patients
- Bubble wrap serves as sheet of tiny test tubes in resource-limited regions
- Hungry, invasive 'crazy worm' makes first appearance in Wisconsin, threatens forests
- What do Google searches tell us about our climate change fears?
- Self-assembling nanoparticle could improve MRI scanning for cancer diagnosis
- Do women talk more than men? It's all about context
- For bees and flowers, tongue size matters
- Mutation stops worms from getting drunk
- Glowing red in the big blue: Red fluorescence at great depths
- Do daughters really cause divorce? Maybe not
- Mormon pioneer mortality rate calculated at 3.5 percent
- Protein's 'hands' enable bacteria to establish infection, research finds
- Using male mosquitoes to effectively sterilize females through a naturally occurring bacterium
- Molecular 'eat now' signal makes cells devour dying neighbors
- New mite species from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem named after J-Lo
- Does cat poop parasite play a role in curing cancer?
- Little too late: Pathogenic bacterium in 700-year-old skeleton identified
- Ötzi's non-human DNA: Opportunistic pathogen discovered in Iceman tissue biopsy
- Smallest Swiss cross: Made of 20 single atoms
- Reduced range of facial expression indicates serious heart/lung disease
- Study: Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent
- Bones of elephant ancestor unearthed: Meet the gomphothere
- Beneath the surface: What zebrafish can tell us about anxiety
- Genome-wide analysis reveals genetic similarities among friends: Study finds truth to 'friends are the family you choose'
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- 3-D-printed anatomy to mark a new era for medical training
- Prehistoric ‘bookkeeping’ tokens continued long after invention of writing
- Internet browsing can improve millennial attention to workplace tasks
- Domestication syndrome: White patches, baby faces and tameness explained by mild neural crest deficits
- Li-fi protocol allows use of the Internet at the speed of light
- Does this trunk make me look fat? Overweight zoo elephants no laughing matter
- Out of an hours-long explosion, a stand-in for the first stars
- Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
- Drone lighting: Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting
- Baboons groom early in day to get benefits later
- Do women perceive other women in red as more sexually receptive?
- Potent spider toxin 'electrocutes' German, not American, cockroaches
- Extinct giant sea scorpion gets an eye exam, with surprising results
- Hi-ho! Astronomers discover seven dwarf galaxies with new telescope
- Ocean's most abundant organisms have clear daily cycles
- Hunger for vegetable oil means trouble for Africa's great apes
- Radio-burst discovery deepens astrophysics mystery
- Injectable foam could prevent fatal blood loss in wounded soldiers
- Decreasing font size enhances reading comprehension among children who have already developed proficient reading skills
- Food imagery ideal for teaching doctors -- but they must have strong stomachs
- Climate change may bring more kidney stones
- Men's hot flashes: Hypnotic relaxation therapy may ease the discomfort that guys don't talk about
- Polar bears from space: Satellite imagery a promising tool to monitor arctic polar bears
- Odor communication in wild gorillas: Wild gorillas signal using odor
- Making quantum connections: The speed of information in a spin network
- Biologists link sexual selection, placenta formation
- 'Nano-pixels' promise thin, flexible, high resolution displays
- New paths into the world of quasiparticles
- Tiny DNA pyramids enter bacteria easily -- and deliver a deadly payload
- Shark teeth analysis provides detailed new look at Arctic climate change
- Rotten egg gas holds key to healthcare therapies
- Night-time brilliance lights up political patronage
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