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- A robot sketches portraits
- Fruit flies use alcohol as a drug to kill parasites
- Goat kids can develop accents
| Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:55 AM PST An industrial robot as artist? A painter made of metal really can sketch faces. Its artistic genius only emerges if someone takes a seat on the model's stool positioned in front of the robot: first, its camera records an image of its model; then it whips out its pencil and traces a portrait of the individual on its easel. After around ten minutes have passed, it grabs the work and proudly presents it to its public.  |
| Fruit flies use alcohol as a drug to kill parasites Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:34 AM PST Fruit flies infected with a blood-borne parasite consume alcohol to self-medicate, a behavior that greatly increases their survival rate, a new study finds. The researchers say the results are the first to show that alcohol consumption can have a protective effect against infectious disease, and in particular against blood-borne parasites. The data raises an important question: Could other organisms, perhaps even humans, control blood-borne parasites through high doses of alcohol?  |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:50 AM PST The ability to change vocal sounds and develop an accent is potentially far more widespread in mammals than previously believed, according to new research on goats.  |
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