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- Spinning CDs to clean sewage water
- Stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display created
- Whale earwax used to determine contaminant exposure in whales
- Putting the spring back in broken hearts
- Eagle vs. deer: Camera trap shows golden eagle capturing sika deer
- Chasing the 'black holes' of the ocean
- Movies that push our cognitive limits
- Why humans are musical
| Spinning CDs to clean sewage water Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:59 PM PDT Audio CDs, all the rage in the '90s, seem increasingly obsolete in a world of MP3 files and iPods, leaving many music lovers with the question of what to do with their extensive compact disk collections. While you could turn your old disks into a work of avant-garde art, researchers in Taiwan have come up with a more practical application: breaking down sewage. |
| Stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display created Posted: 23 Sep 2013 11:37 AM PDT Imagine an electronic display nearly as clear as a window, or a curtain that illuminates a room, or a smartphone screen that doubles in size, stretching like rubber. Now imagine all of these being made from the same material. Researchers have developed a transparent, elastic organic light-emitting device, or OLED, that could one day make all these possible. |
| Whale earwax used to determine contaminant exposure in whales Posted: 23 Sep 2013 11:36 AM PDT A novel technique has been developed for reconstructing contaminant and hormone profiles using whale earplugs to determine, for the first time, lifetime chemical exposures and hormone profiles, from birth to death, for an individual whale. This information has not been previously attainable. |
| Putting the spring back in broken hearts Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:42 AM PDT For years, scientists have been trying to engineer cardiac tissue to patch up areas of the heart damaged by heart attacks. Now Tel Aviv University researchers have fabricated fibers shaped like springs that allow engineered cardiac tissue to pump more like the real thing. They say that, once tested in clinical trials, the use of these fibers will improve and prolong the lives of millions of people. |
| Eagle vs. deer: Camera trap shows golden eagle capturing sika deer Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:41 AM PDT A camera trap set out for endangered Siberian (Amur) tigers in the Russian Far East photographed something far more rare: a golden eagle capturing a young sika deer. |
| Chasing the 'black holes' of the ocean Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:41 AM PDT Some of the largest ocean eddies on Earth are mathematically equivalent to the mysterious black holes of space. These eddies are so tightly shielded by circular water paths that nothing caught up in them escapes. The mild winters experienced in Northern Europe are thanks to the Gulf Stream, which makes up part of those ocean currents spanning the globe that impact on the climate. However, our climate is also influenced by huge eddies of over 150 kilometres in diameter that rotate and drift across the ocean. Their number is reportedly on the rise in the Southern Ocean, increasing the northward transport of warm and salty water. Intriguingly, this could moderate the negative impact of melting sea ice in a warming climate. |
| Movies that push our cognitive limits Posted: 23 Sep 2013 06:29 AM PDT Hyperlink films mirror contemporary globalized communities, using exciting cinematic elements and multiple story lines to create the idea of a world that is interconnected on many social levels. However, films in this genre like Crash, Babel, and Love Actually are not as new and innovative as presumed and still conform to conventional social patterns. |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2013 06:26 AM PDT Why don't apes have musical talent, while humans, parrots, small birds, elephants, whales, and bats do? One researcher attempts to answer this question in his latest publication. |
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