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Sunday, December 8, 2013

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


When it comes to peer pressure, teens are not alone

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:21 AM PST

It is well known that teenagers take risks -- and when they do, they like to have company. Now, a new study has found that an inclination toward risky behavior in groups also holds true for another teen mammal -- namely, mice.

Protein clumps as memory

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:18 AM PST

Yeast cells are able to form a memory through an aggregate composed of congregating "degenerate" proteins. A similar memory mechanism is also thought to exist in the nerve cells of higher organisms.

Ancient 'fig wasp' lived tens of millions of years before figs

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:16 AM PST

A 115-million-year-old fossilized wasp from northeast Brazil presents a baffling puzzle to researchers. The wasp's ovipositor, the organ through which it lays its eggs, looks a lot like those of present-day wasps that lay their eggs in figs. The problem, researchers say, is that figs arose about 65 million years after this wasp was alive.

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