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- Quidditch takes off: Turning a fictional game into a real sport
- Genetic link between visual pathways of hydras and humans discovered
- Spider silk conducts heat as well as metals
- Sawfishes sure can wield a saw: Saw senses electric fields to locate prey and also attack
- Building a beetle antifreeze
- New direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming
| Quidditch takes off: Turning a fictional game into a real sport Posted: 05 Mar 2012 08:02 PM PST Muggle Quidditch match between University of Leicester and Keele University teams will be first in the UK played according to formal IQA rules.  |
| Genetic link between visual pathways of hydras and humans discovered Posted: 05 Mar 2012 12:06 PM PST What good is half an eye? Evolutionary biologists studying the origins of vision get that question a lot, and new research points to a possible answer. New findings indicate that, even in the absence of eyes altogether, some creatures display a light-sensitivity that uses the same visual pathway that allows humans to see.  |
| Spider silk conducts heat as well as metals Posted: 05 Mar 2012 10:26 AM PST Researchers have discovered that spider silk is surprisingly good at transferring heat. Spider silk, in fact, conducts heat as well or better than most metals.  |
| Sawfishes sure can wield a saw: Saw senses electric fields to locate prey and also attack Posted: 05 Mar 2012 10:24 AM PST Sawfishes wouldn't be sawfishes if they didn't come equipped with long toothy snouts -- their saws. Now, researchers have figured out what they use those saws for, and it turns out the answer is quite impressive. The saws themselves have tiny sensors that enable sawfishes to detect the electric fields of other nearby animals.  |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2012 10:18 AM PST An Alaskan beetle beats the cold using an unusual, natural antifreeze with a novel mode of action that scientists are beginning to unravel.  |
| New direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming Posted: 05 Mar 2012 05:11 AM PST University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves.  |
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