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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Decision-making brain activity in patients with hoarding disorder

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:18 PM PDT

Patients with hoarding disorder exhibited abnormal activity in regions of the brain that was stimulus dependent when deciding what to do with objects that did or did not belong to them.

Researchers unlock secret of the rare 'twinned rainbow'

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT

Scientists have yet to fully unravel the mysteries of rainbows, but a group of researchers have used simulations of these natural wonders to unlock the secret to a rare optical phenomenon known as the twinned rainbow.

Limits of microbial life in an undersea volcano: Third of Earth's organisms live in rock and sediments

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT

By some estimates, a third of the Earth's organisms by mass live in our planet's rocks and sediments, yet their lives and ecology are almost a complete mystery. Microbiologists have just revealed the first detailed data about a group of methane-exhaling microbes that live deep in the cracks of hot undersea volcanoes.

Ecology and phylogenetics together offer new views of Earth's biodiversity

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Scientists are taking a new look at Earth patterns, studying the biodiversity of yard plants in the US and that of desert mammals in Israel, studying where flowers and bees live on the Tibetan plateau and how willow trees in America's Midwest make use of water.

Seeing through walls: Laser system reconstructs objects hidden from sight

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Researchers combined bouncing photons with advanced optics to enable them to "see" what's hidden around the corner.

Touch your philodendron and control your computer: Technology turns any plant into an interactive device

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT

Any houseplant -- real or artificial -- could control a computer or any digital device with new technology, called Botanicus Interactus.

Microswimmers: Micron-scale swimming robots could deliver drugs and carry cargo using simple motion

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 06:39 AM PDT

Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-swimmers that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. These autonomous micro-robots could carry cargo and navigate in response to stimuli such as light.

Information advantage gained from surprising quantum source

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:51 AM PDT

New research lends hope that a phenomenon called quantum discord could be harnessed to bring quantum technologies within easier reach than expected.

Pupil dilation reveals sexual orientation in new study

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:45 AM PDT

For the first time, researchers used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils were highly telling: they widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual.

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