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- Do re mi fa ... How do you know what comes next?
- New way to mimic the color and texture of butterfly wings
- Fearful flyers willing to pay more and alter flight plans, according to travel study
- 'Mother's kiss' safe and effective for removing foreign objects from children's noses
- Researcher aims to understand one of nature's strangest secrets: Magnetotactic bacteria
- Making a layer cake with atomic precision
- What you hear could depend on what your hands are doing
| Do re mi fa ... How do you know what comes next? Posted: 15 Oct 2012 01:18 PM PDT How do you remember a song -- and why is it that a beginning pianist who forgets the middle of a melody needs to start over again to recall the tune? The answer, say researchers, is that two different areas of the brain are used -- one to learn a sequence and another to recall it -- and that higher motor areas participate in both. |
| New way to mimic the color and texture of butterfly wings Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:25 AM PDT The colors of a butterfly's wings are unusually bright and beautiful and are the result of an unusual trait; the way they reflect light is fundamentally different from how color works most of the time. A team of researchers has found a way to generate this kind of "structural color" that has the added benefit of another trait of butterfly wings: super-hydrophobicity, or the ability to strongly repel water. |
| Fearful flyers willing to pay more and alter flight plans, according to travel study Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:18 AM PDT Fearful flyers seek flight attributes that may be primarily reassuring, such as schedule, aircraft size and carrier origin, but have little effect on the low, actual risk, according to a new study. |
| 'Mother's kiss' safe and effective for removing foreign objects from children's noses Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:22 AM PDT A technique called the "mother's kiss" for removing foreign objects from the nasal passages of young children appears to be a safe and effective approach, a new study finds. |
| Researcher aims to understand one of nature's strangest secrets: Magnetotactic bacteria Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:54 AM PDT New research aims to unlock one of the most intriguing processes in nature by looking into the process of magnetotactic bacteria. These organisms develop membrane-encapsulated nano-particles known as magnetosomes which allow bacteria to orient themselves along Earth's magnetic field lines in order to migrate to more favorable environments. |
| Making a layer cake with atomic precision Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:29 PM PDT Graphene and associated one-atom-thick crystals offer the possibility of a vast range of new materials and devices by stacking individual atomic layers on top of each other, new research shows. |
| What you hear could depend on what your hands are doing Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:29 PM PDT New research demonstrates that the two hemispheres specialize in different kinds of sounds (left: rapidly changing sounds, such as consonants; right: slowly changing sounds, such as syllables or intonation). The research also shows the interaction between motor systems and perception. "Imagine you're waving an American flag while listening to a presidential candidate. The speech will sound slightly different depending on whether the flag is in your left or right hand," the lead researcher says. |
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