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Pain Can Be a Relief
February 26, 2013 — When something causes less pain than expected it is even possible for it to feel pleasant, a new study reveals. These findings may one day play a key role in treating pain and substance ... > full story -
Hummingbird Flight: Two Vortex Trails With One Stroke
February 25, 2013 — As of today, the Wikipedia entry for the hummingbird explains that the bird's flight generates in its wake a single trail of vortices that helps the bird hover. But after conducting experiments with ... > full story -
Weather Extremes Provoked by Trapping of Giant Waves in the Atmosphere
February 25, 2013 — The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical ... > full story -
Moments of Spirituality Can Induce Liberal Attitudes, Researchers Find
February 25, 2013 — People become more politically liberal immediately after practising a spiritual exercise such as meditation, researchers have ... > full story -
Cleaning Oil Spills With Paper Mill Sludge?
February 25, 2013 — Eco-innovation is at its best when the waste of one industry becomes the raw material of another. This is precisely what a new research project CAPS, is attempting to do with waste sludge from ... > full story -
Mouse Mothers Induce Parenting Behaviors in Fathers With Ultra-Sonic Noises
February 25, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated the existence of communicative signalling from female mice that induces male parental ... > full story -
'NanoVelcro' Device to Grab Single Cancer Cells from Blood: Improvement Enables 'Liquid Biopsies' for Metastatic Melanoma
February 25, 2013 — Researchers have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the improvements to their ... > full story -
Spiderman's Webbing Would Be Strong Enough to Stop a Moving Train, Say Physics Students
February 25, 2013 — In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track. But could a material with the strength and toughness of ... > full story -
Scientists Find Genes Linked to Human Neurological Disorders in Sea Lamprey Genome
February 24, 2013 — Scientists have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose ... > full story -
Graphene: A Material That Multiplies the Power of Light
February 24, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated that graphene is able to convert a single photon that it absorbs into multiple electrons that could drive electric current -- a very promising discovery that makes ... > full story
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