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- Tut, tut: Microbial growth in pharaoh's tomb suggests burial was a rush job
- Competition between females leads to infanticide in some primates
- Water's surface not all wet: Some water molecules split the difference between gas and liquid
- Stop on red: The effects of color may lie deep in evolution
- Ordered fear plays a strong role in market chaos
- No such thing as a red or blue state, study finds
| Tut, tut: Microbial growth in pharaoh's tomb suggests burial was a rush job Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:13 AM PDT In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons -- in fact, almost every surface. A researcher thinks those brown spots reveal something: that the young pharaoh was buried in an unusual hurry, before the walls of the tomb were even dry. |
| Competition between females leads to infanticide in some primates Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:13 AM PDT An international team of scientists has shed light on cannibalism and infanticide carried out by primates, documenting these acts for the first time in the mustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax). The mothers, which cannot raise their infants without help from male group members, commit infanticide in order to prevent the subsequent death of their offspring if they are stressed and in competition with other females. |
| Water's surface not all wet: Some water molecules split the difference between gas and liquid Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:13 AM PDT At any one time, one quarter of water molecules in the uppermost layer have one hydrogen atom in water and the other vibrating freely above. Such molecules straddle gas and liquid phases, according to a new study that bears on atmospheric chemistry and raises the question of how exactly to define the air-water boundary. |
| Stop on red: The effects of color may lie deep in evolution Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:30 AM PDT Almost universally, red means stop. Red means danger. Red means hot. And analyzing the results in the 2004 Olympics, researchers have found that red also means dominance. Athletes wearing red prevailed more often than those wearing blue, especially in hand-to-hand sports like wrestling. |
| Ordered fear plays a strong role in market chaos Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:28 AM PDT When the current financial crisis hit, the failure of traditional economic doctrines to provide any sort of early warning shocked not only financial experts worldwide, but also governments and the general public, and we all began to question the effectiveness and validity of those doctrines. A research team based in Israel decided to investigate what went awry, searching for order in an apparently random system. |
| No such thing as a red or blue state, study finds Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:39 AM PDT Believe it or not, the odds are nearly 50/50 that a random person from a "red state" would be more liberal on political issues than if you took a random resident of a "blue state." |
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