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Helicopter Could Be 'Scout' for Mars Rovers
Jan. 26, 2015 — Getting around on Mars is tricky business. Each NASA rover has delivered a wealth of information about the history and composition of the Red Planet, but a rover's vision is limited by the view ... full story -
Converting Olive Mash Into Cash
Jan. 26, 2015 — An experimental system to create heat and power with waste from olive oil processing is up-and-running in Spain. The system shows a promising way forward for reducing environmental damage and ... full story -
Friends Know How Long You'll Live, Study Finds
Jan. 24, 2015 — Young lovers walking down the aisle may dream of long and healthy lives together, but close friends in the wedding party may have a better sense of whether those wishes will come true, suggests new ... full story -
Scientists Slow Down the Speed of Light Travelling in Free Space
Jan. 23, 2015 — Scientists have managed to slow photons in free space for the first time. They have demonstrated that applying a mask to an optical beam to give photons a spatial structure can reduce their ... full story -
Lucid Dreams and Metacognition: Awareness of Thinking; Awareness of Dreaming
Jan. 23, 2015 — To control one's dreams and to live 'out there' what is impossible in real life -- a truly tempting idea. Some persons -- so-called lucid dreamers -- can do this. Researchers have ... full story -
Climate Affects Development of Human Speech
Jan. 23, 2015 — A correlation between climate and the evolution of language has been uncovered by researchers. To find a relationship between the climate and the evolution of language, one needs to discover an ... full story -
How Does the Universe Creates Reason, Morality?
Jan. 23, 2015 — Recent developments in science are beginning to suggest that the universe naturally produces complexity. The emergence of life in general and perhaps even rational life, with its associated ... full story -
Yes, Black Holes Exist in Gravitational Theories With Unbounded Speeds of Propagation
Jan. 23, 2015 — Gravitational theories with broken Lorentz invariance have attracted a great deal of interest as they provide a test-bed of LI and offer a mechanism to improve their ultraviolet behavior, so that the ... full story -
Mothers Don't Speak So Clearly to Their Babies
Jan. 23, 2015 — People have a distinctive way of talking to babies and small children: We speak more slowly, using a sing-song voice, and tend to use cutesy words like "tummy". While we might be inclined ... full story -
Scientists 'Bend' Elastic Waves With New Metamaterials That Could Have Commercial Applications
Jan. 22, 2015 — Sound waves passing through the air, objects that break a body of water and cause ripples, or shockwaves from earthquakes all are considered 'elastic' waves. These waves travel at the ... full story -
Scientists Set Quantum Speed Limit
Jan. 22, 2015 — The flip side of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the energy time uncertainty principle, establishes a speed limit for transitions between two states. Physical chemists have now proved this ... full story -
New Research Re-Creates Planet Formation, Super-Earths and Giant Planets in the Laboratory
Jan. 22, 2015 — New laser-driven compression experiments reproduce the conditions deep inside exotic super-Earths and giant planet cores, and the conditions during the violent birth of Earth-like planets, ... full story -
Rosetta Comet 'Pouring' More Water Into Space
Jan. 22, 2015 — There has been a significant increase in the amount of water "pouring" out of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet on which the Rosetta mission's Philae lander touched down in ... full story -
Gas Variations Are Suggestive of Seasons on Comet Chury
Jan. 22, 2015 — Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko continues to reveal more of its secrets: Researchers have detected considerable variations in the gas escaping from the comet. This could amount to seasonal changes on ... full story -
These Jellyfish Aren't Just Drifters; Many Swim Strongly
Jan. 22, 2015 — Jellyfish might look like mere drifters, but some of them have a remarkable ability to detect the direction of ocean currents and to swim strongly against them, according to new evidence in ... full story -
Exotic, Gigantic Molecules Fit Inside Each Other Like Russian Nesting Dolls
Jan. 22, 2015 — Scientists have experimentally observed for the first time a phenomenon in ultracold, three-atom molecules predicted by Russian theoretical physicist Vitaly Efimov in ... full story -
Black Hole on a Diet Creates a 'Changing Look' Quasar
Jan. 22, 2015 — Astronomers have identified the first 'changing look' quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its own dimmer switch. The discovery may offer a glimpse into the life ... full story -
American Liberals and Conservatives Think as If from Different Cultures
Jan. 22, 2015 — American conservatives think more like Asians, and liberals are the extreme Westerners in thought styles, new research suggests. The so-called "culture war," the lead author said, is an ... full story -
Snack Attack: Bears Munch on Ants and Help Plants Grow
Jan. 22, 2015 — Tiny ants may seem like an odd food source for black bears, but the protein-packed bugs are a major part of some bears' diets and a crucial part of the food web that not only affects other bugs, ... full story -
Is Cheating on the Field Worse Than Cheating on a Spouse? Some Fans Think So
Jan. 22, 2015 — Why did fans and sponsors such as Nike drop Lance Armstrong but stay loyal to Tiger Woods? Probably because Armstrong's doping scandal took place on the field, unlike Wood's off-the-field ... full story
- Scientists slow down the speed of light travelling in free space
- Lucid dreams and metacognition: Awareness of thinking; awareness of dreaming
- Climate affects development of human speech
- How does the universe creates reason, morality?
- Yes, black holes exist in gravitational theories with unbounded speeds of propagation
- Mothers don't speak so clearly to their babies
- Scientists 'bend' elastic waves with new metamaterials that could have commercial applications
- Scientists set quantum speed limit
- New research re-creates planet formation, super-Earths and giant planets in the laboratory
- Rosetta Comet 'pouring' more water into space
- Gas variations are suggestive of seasons on comet Chury
- These jellyfish aren't just drifters; many swim strongly
- Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls
- Black hole on a diet creates a 'changing look' quasar
- American liberals and conservatives think as if from different cultures
- Snack attack: Bears munch on ants and help plants grow
- Is cheating on the field worse than cheating on a spouse? Some fans think so
- NASA, Microsoft collaboration will allow scientists to 'work on Mars'
- Is glass a true solid? New research suggests it is
- New forensic entomology observations expand knowledge of decomposition ecology
- Fine motor skills for robotic hands
- Fossils survive volcanic eruption to tell us about the origin of the Canary Islands
- Self-powered intelligent keyboard could provide a new layer of security
- Drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries
- Graphene brings quantum effects to electronic circuits
- Death of a dynamo: A hard drive from space
- Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei do not behave according to predictions
- Twitter can predict rates of coronary heart disease, according to research
- Heightened scents: Do ambient fragrances make consumers purchase more?
- Editing the brain: How new epigenetic tools could rewrite our understanding of memory and more
- Electroluminescent light sheets: Printable luminous particles enable cost-effective, large and curved luminous surfaces
- Decorative and flexible solar panels become part of interior design and the appearance of objects
- In theory, the Milky Way could be a 'galactic transport system'
- How attached to our smart phones are we?
- New bacterial 'language' discovered: Previously unknown communication pathway
- Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent, self-cleaning metals
- Silk-weaving ant study sees new behavior
- Ocean floor dust gives new insight into supernovae
- Atoms can be in two places at the same time
- First public lighting system that runs on solar and wind energy
- A contractile gel that stores light energy
- Paleontologist names a carnivorous reptile that preceded dinosaurs
- Hostile boss? Study finds advantages to giving it right back
- The seeing power of frogs: Frogs can detect single photons of light
- Fossil ankles indicate Earth's earliest primates lived in trees
- Automated method beats critics in picking great movies
- Predatory sea snails produce weaponized insulin
- Extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from unknown source in the universe, caught as it was happening
- Preserved fossil represents oldest record of parental care in group of prehistoric reptiles
- President Lincoln’s cottage 3D laser-scanned by researchers
- HiRISE camera spots long-lost space probe on Mars
- Three nearly Earth-size planets found orbiting nearby star: One in 'Goldilocks' zone
- Closing your eyes boosts memory recall, new study finds
- Heart arrhythmias detected in deep-diving marine mammals
- Galactic 'hailstorm' in the early Universe
- Space station worms’ research potential is anything but flat
- Rice-sized laser, powered one electron at a time, bodes well for quantum computing
- Tiny plant fossils a window into Earth's landscape millions of years ago
- Roller coaster geese: Insights into high altitude bird flight physiology and biomechanics
- Inventors choose to reveal their secret sauce before patent approval
- In the mood to trade? Weather may influence institutional investors' stock decisions
- Liquids and glasses relax, too -- but not like you thought
- For sea turtles, there's no place like magnetic home
- The secret of empathy: Stress from the presence of strangers prevents empathy, in both mice and humans
- Yak dung burning pollutes indoor air of Tibetan households
- Smart farming technique to boost yields, cut fertilizer pollution
- Harnessing bacteria to move microscopic gears and ratchets
- Huge 3-D displays without 3-D glasses
- People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened
- New sulfate-breathing species discovered beneath ocean crust: Third of Earth's biomass in largely uncharted environment
- Out of the pouch: Ancient DNA extracted from extinct giant kangaroos
- Trans-Neptunian objects suggest that there are more dwarf planets in our solar system
- Entrepreneurs succeed in transforming used PET plastic bottles into mineral paper
- Probing strong gravity in a binary neutron star system
- DNA 'smart glue' could someday be used to build tissues, organs
- People conform to the norm -- even if the norm is a computer
- Cone snail venom holds promise for medical treatments for cancer, addiction
- Pitcher plants 'switch off' traps to capture more ants
- Bacteria as individual as people? Study of rhizobium from plant roots suggests yes
- First contracting human muscle grown in laboratory
- Feeling cold is contagious, scientists find
- Nothing to squirm about: Space station worms help battle muscle, bone loss
- World's oldest butchering tools gave evolutionary edge to human communication
- Brazilian scarab beetles found to be termitophiles
- Surprise discovery off California exposes loggerhead 'lost years'
- Robots learn to use kitchen tools by watching YouTube videos
- Sizing up giants under the sea: Biologists correct inaccuracies for 25 marine species
- Species of bird 'paints' its own eggs with bacteria to protect embryo
- Slick and slender snake beats short and stubby lizard in sand swimming
- Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality than friends and family
- 3-D printed Shelby Cobra
- Two-faced fish clue that our ancestors 'weren't shark-like'
- From the bottom up: Manipulating nanoribbons at the molecular level
- They see flow signals: Researchers identify nature of 'sixth sense' in fish
- 'Batman' leads way to extremely fast and precise data storage
- Portly pastors make up more than a third of American clergy
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