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Mystery of the Reverse-Wired Eyeball Solved
Feb. 27, 2015 — Counter-intuitively, in vertebrates photoreceptors are located behind the neurons in the back of the eye. Now physicists explain why the neural wiring seems to be ... full story -
Zombie Outbreak? Statistical Mechanics Reveals the Ideal Hideout; And Informs Real Disease Modeling
Feb. 27, 2015 — A team researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests heading for the hills, in the Rockies, to save your brains from the ... full story -
The Biobattery: Turning Sewage Sludge Into Electricity and Engine Oil
Feb. 27, 2015 — Sewage sludge, green waste, production residue from the food industry, straw or animal excrement – with the biobattery‘s modular concept a much larger range of biomass can be utilized for energy ... full story -
Neurons Controlling Appetite Made from Skin Cells
Feb. 27, 2015 — Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate appetite, providing a patient-specific model for studying the neurophysiology ... full story -
Wind-Powered Freighters
Feb. 27, 2015 — To make ships more eco-efficient, engineers have been working with alternative fuels. A Norwegian engineer is currently pursuing a new approach: With VindskipTM, he has designed a cargo ship that is ... full story -
Living in Genetic Comfort Zone: How to Avoid Influence of Genetic Variation
Feb. 26, 2015 — The phenotype of organisms is shaped by the interaction between environmental factors and their genetic constitution. A recent study by a team of population geneticists shows that fruit flies live in ... full story -
How Mantis Shrimp Evolved Many Shapes With Same Powerful Punch
Feb. 26, 2015 — The miniweight boxing title of the animal world belongs to the mantis shrimp, a cigar-sized crustacean whose front claws can deliver an explosive 60-mile-per-hour blow akin to a bullet leaving the ... full story -
Neurons That Help Predict What Another Individual Will Do Identified
Feb. 26, 2015 — Investigators have discovered two groups of neurons that play key roles in social interactions between primates -- one that is activated when deciding whether to cooperate with another individual and ... full story -
Bumblebees Make False Memories, Too
Feb. 26, 2015 — It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also 'remember' things incorrectly, with devastating consequences in the classroom, ... full story -
Building Blocks of the Future Defy Logic: New Logic-Defying Mathematical Model
Feb. 26, 2015 — Wake up in the morning and stretch; your midsection narrows. Pull on a rubber band and it becomes thinner. One might assume that materials will always stretch and thin. Wrong. Thanks to their ... full story -
Could Squirmy Livestock Dent Africa's Protein Deficit?
Feb. 26, 2015 — Two graduate students are working to introduce highly productive kits for farming mealworms to regions such as sub-Saharan Africa where eating insects is already culturally palatable. They are just ... full story -
New Insight Found in Black Hole Collisions
Feb. 26, 2015 — New research by an astrophysicist provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe -- the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger black ... full story -
Optical Features Embedded in Marine Shells May Help Develop Responsive, Transparent Displays
Feb. 26, 2015 — The blue-rayed limpet is a tiny mollusk that lives in kelp beds along the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. These diminutive organisms -- as small as a ... full story -
Pockets of Calm Protect Molecules Around a Supermassive Black Hole
Feb. 26, 2015 — Researchers have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1068, also known to amateur ... full story -
Sewage Provides Insight Into Human Microbiome
Feb. 25, 2015 — Sewage is an effective means to sample the fecal bacteria from millions of people, a new study has indicated. Researchers say the information gleaned from the work provides a unique opportunity to ... full story -
Monster Black Hole Discovered at Cosmic Dawn
Feb. 25, 2015 — The discovery of the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time presents a puzzle to researchers: How could something so massive and ... full story -
Consideration of Costs Can Reduce Moral Objections to Human Organ Sales and Other 'Repugnant' Transactions, Says Researcher
Feb. 25, 2015 — People might abandon their moral objections to organ selling – and to other transactions in repugnant markets -- when presented with information about the potential advantages of such sales, ... full story -
Physicists Offer a Solution to the Puzzle of the Origin of Matter in the Universe
Feb. 25, 2015 — Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter, and not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry, which favors matter ... full story -
Blockbusters: Can EEGs Predict a Movie's Success Better Than Surveys?
Feb. 25, 2015 — Seventy-five percent of movies earn a net loss during their run in theaters. A new study finds that brain activity visible through EEG measures may be a much cheaper and more accurate way to predict ... full story -
Norway Rats Reciprocate Help According to the Quality of the Help They Received
Feb. 25, 2015 — Non-human animals consider the value of previously received help when deciding whether to help a social partner, according to a new study in rats. Until now, it was unclear whether animals other than ... full story
- Mystery of the reverse-wired eyeball solved
- Zombie outbreak? Statistical mechanics reveals the ideal hideout; and informs real disease modeling
- The biobattery: Turning sewage sludge into electricity and engine oil
- Neurons controlling appetite made from skin cells
- Wind-powered freighters
- Living in genetic comfort zone: How to avoid influence of genetic variation
- How mantis shrimp evolved many shapes with same powerful punch
- Neurons that help predict what another individual will do identified
- Bumblebees make false memories, too
- Building blocks of the future defy logic: New logic-defying mathematical model
- Could squirmy livestock dent africa's protein deficit?
- New insight found in black hole collisions
- Optical features embedded in marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays
- Pockets of calm protect molecules around a supermassive black hole
- Sewage provides insight into human microbiome
- Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn
- Consideration of costs can reduce moral objections to human organ sales and other 'repugnant' transactions, says researcher
- Physicists offer a solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe
- Blockbusters: Can EEGs predict a movie's success better than surveys?
- Norway rats reciprocate help according to the quality of the help they received
- Easy on the eyes: Optimum length of eyelashes is one third width of eye
- Boy or girl? Lemur scents have the answer
- Bionic reconstruction lets patients use a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by the mind
- Tissue engineering: Scientists grow leg muscle from cells in a dish
- Sensor-packed smartphones can read your mood, guard your data, and wreak havoc in the wrong hands
- Yellowstone: Geysers erupt periodically because they have loops in their plumbing
- Climate-change clues from turtles of tropical Wyoming
- Why a latte is less likely to spill than a coffee
- Great Barrier Reef corals eat plastic
- Mapping lizard venom makes it possible to develop new drugs
- Preventing diabetic heart condition in mice by amplifying effect of exercise: Potential for benefits of exercise in a pill?
- Neuroscientists literally change the way we think: Advantages of a wandering mind
- Sobering effect of the love hormone
- Bacteria in marine sponges harvest phosphorus for reef community
- Hidden in plain sight: Amazonian bird chick mimics toxic caterpillar to avoid being eaten
- Carnivorous plant packs big wonders into tiny genome
- Sauna use associated with reduced risk of cardiac, all-cause mortality
- Wisdom teeth stem cells can transform into cells that could treat corneal scarring
- New assistive equipment to maximize human sensorimotor function
- Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens
- New nanogel for drug delivery: Self-healing gel can be injected into the body and act as a long-term drug depot
- Mouse embryo with big brain: Evolving a bigger brain with human DNA
- A new view of the solar system: Astrophysical jets driven by the sun
- Atomically thin gas and chemical sensors
- Does dark matter cause mass extinctions and geologic upheavals?
- Cheap solar cells made from shrimp shells
- Moths shed light on how to fool enemy sonar
- Fearless birds and big city spiders: Is urbanization pushing Earth's evolution to a tipping point?
- Feasibility of tracking parrots with GPS telemetry confirmed
- Where ants go when nature calls: Ants use corners of their nest as 'toilets'
- Keeping atherosclerosis in-check with novel targeted inflammation-resolving nanomedicines
- Hair dye 'CSI' could help police solve crimes
- For the first time, spacecraft catch solar shockwave in the act: 'Ultrarelativistic, killer electrons' made in 60 seconds
- Mutant bacteria that keep on growing
- Can you judge a man by his fingers? Link between relative lengths of index and ring fingers in men and behavior towards women
- Brain's iconic seat of speech goes silent when we actually talk
- Scientists turn the tables on drug-resistant bacteria by infecting them with bacteriophages (bacterial viruses)
- New species, the Ruby Seadragon, discovered
- In the city, rabbits build more densely
- Igniting the air for atmospheric research
- The strange case of the missing dwarf
- Mulling the marijuana munchies: How the brain flips the hunger switch
- Bee disease reduced by nature's 'medicine cabinet'
- Scientists find strongest natural material known to humans
- Women seek greater variety in men and consumer products near ovulation
- Recent research provides new data on chemical gardens, whose formation is a mystery for science
- Even animals compose: What it means to be a musical species
- Closest known flyby of star to our solar system: Dim star passed through Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago
- Mystery Mars plume baffles scientists
- Complex nerve-cell signaling traced back to common ancestor of humans and sea anemones
- Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago
- Genetic evidence shows penguins have 'bad taste'
- Mothers can pass traits to offspring through bacteria's DNA, mouse study shows
- Cold-blooded animals grow bigger in the warm on land, but smaller in warm water
- Female pumas kill more, eat less when humans are near
- Distant species produce 'love child' fern after 60-million-year breakup
- See here now: Telescopic contact lenses and wink-control glasses
- Self-stretching material: No limit to number of times material can change shape
- Harm and response: Plants recognize and respond to different insects
- Transforming silver into any color of the rainbow: Silver-glass sandwich structure acts as inexpensive color filter
- Seeing through sparklers: What happens to heat-treated diamonds
- Interstellar technology throws light on spinning black holes
- Potential 'killer blow' to King Richard III revealed
- Remoras don't suck: Their iconic clinch is far more complex
- Exotic states materialize with supercomputers
- Data-storage for eternity, stored in the form of DNA
- Curious monkeys share our thirst for knowledge
- Explaining 30-year-old 'hidden order' physics mystery
- Making teeth tough: Beavers show way to improve our enamel
- Magnitude of plastic waste going into the ocean calculated: 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans per year
- New fluorescent protein permanently marks neurons that fire
- Earliest-known arboreal and subterranean ancestral mammals discovered
- People value resources more consistently when they are scarce
- Neural basis of 'being in the mood': Researchers discover neurons that combine social information with hormonal state in female mice
- How the Eastern tiger swallowtail got 'scary'
- Dogs know that smile on your face
- Make like a squid and transform: Squid can recode their genetic make-up on-the-fly to adjust to their surroundings, study finds
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