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- Turning to parasites as potential disease fighters
- Butterfly wings inspire new technologies: From fabrics and cosmetics to sensors
- Testes size correlates with men's involvement in toddler care
- The chemistry behind the character of bourbon, scotch and rye
- Indy 500 race cars showcase green fuels
- Breaking deep-sea waves, as high as a skyscraper, reveal mechanism for global ocean mixing
- A swarm on every desktop: Robotics experts learn from public
- Researchers read the coffee grounds and find a promising energy resource for the future
- Toward making people invisible to mosquitoes
- New 'artificial nose' device can speed diagnosis of sepsis
| Turning to parasites as potential disease fighters Posted: 09 Sep 2013 05:12 PM PDT Researchers have described exciting progress in harnessing the human immune system's reaction to the presence of parasitic worms, as a way to lessen susceptibility to type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, as well as for use in promoting wound healing. |
| Butterfly wings inspire new technologies: From fabrics and cosmetics to sensors Posted: 09 Sep 2013 02:22 PM PDT A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learned from these butterflies have already inspired designs of new displays, fabrics and cosmetics. |
| Testes size correlates with men's involvement in toddler care Posted: 09 Sep 2013 02:20 PM PDT Men with smaller testes are more likely to be involved in hands-on care of their toddlers, a new study by anthropologists finds. Smaller testicular volumes also correlate with more nurturing-related brain activity in fathers. The data suggest that the biology of human males reflects a trade-off between investments in mating versus parenting effort. |
| The chemistry behind the character of bourbon, scotch and rye Posted: 09 Sep 2013 01:23 PM PDT Whiskeys have long captivated the senses of connoisseurs, whether with smokiness and a whiff of vanilla or a spicy character with hints of caramel, and now, the emerging chemistry of "brown spirits" is proving that they have distinct chemical signatures to match the complex combinations of grains, barrels, aging and other factors that yield the liquid gold poured into each bottle. With sales of boutique bourbons and other small-batch whiskeys booming, scientists have now revealed the chemical fingerprinting of whiskeys. |
| Indy 500 race cars showcase green fuels Posted: 09 Sep 2013 01:20 PM PDT Mention cars that get barely 3 miles to a gallon and are built for speed rather than cleanliness, and images of gas-guzzling, pollution-belching menaces burning leaded gasoline or nitro may spring to mind. But experts today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street. |
| Breaking deep-sea waves, as high as a skyscraper, reveal mechanism for global ocean mixing Posted: 09 Sep 2013 12:29 PM PDT Oceanographers for the first time recorded an enormous wave breaking miles below the surface in a key bottleneck for global ocean circulation. |
| A swarm on every desktop: Robotics experts learn from public Posted: 09 Sep 2013 12:29 PM PDT The next experiment from Rice University's Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory (MRSL) could happen on your desktop. Researchers are refining their control algorithms for robotic swarms based upon data from free online games. To demonstrate the kind of complex behaviors the algorithms can achieve, researchers videotaped an experiment in which a single controller used simple group commands to direct 12 robots into a complex shape -- a capital R. |
| Researchers read the coffee grounds and find a promising energy resource for the future Posted: 09 Sep 2013 12:29 PM PDT What's usually considered old garbage might be a promising asset for our energy supply, according to researchers. |
| Toward making people invisible to mosquitoes Posted: 09 Sep 2013 12:28 PM PDT In an advance toward providing mosquito-plagued people, pets and livestock with an invisibility cloak against these blood-sucking insects, scientists today described discovery of substances that block mosquitoes' ability to smell and target their victims. |
| New 'artificial nose' device can speed diagnosis of sepsis Posted: 09 Sep 2013 06:23 AM PDT Disease-causing bacteria stink — literally — and the odor released by some of the nastiest microbes has become the basis for a faster and simpler new way to diagnose serious blood infections and finger the specific microbe, scientists have reported. |
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