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- Recognizing flipped famous faces might indicate the mental health problem body dysmorphic disorder
- Decoding worm lingo: Eradicating parasites that speak same language
- Resurfacing urban areas to offset 150 billion tons of CO2
- Designing the interplanetary web
- Innovative glove-within-a-mitten lets users stay ‘touchscreen friendly’ in cold winter
- European dung-fly females all aflutter for large males
| Recognizing flipped famous faces might indicate the mental health problem body dysmorphic disorder Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:19 AM PDT Individuals with the mental health problem "body dysmorphic disorder" (BDD) cannot accurately detect negative facial emotions but they have an amazing ability to recognize famous faces - when they are upside-down.  |
| Decoding worm lingo: Eradicating parasites that speak same language Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:13 AM PDT All animals seem to have ways of exchanging information -- monkeys vocalize complex messages, ants create scent trails to food, and fireflies light up their bellies to attract mates. Yet, despite the fact that nematodes, or roundworms, are among the most abundant animals on the planet, little is known about the way they network. Now, biologists have shown that a wide range of nematodes communicate using a recently discovered class of chemical cues.  |
| Resurfacing urban areas to offset 150 billion tons of CO2 Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:13 AM PDT Imagine a world where the rooftops and pavements of every urban area are resurfaced to increase the reflection of the sun's light rays. Well, this is exactly what a group of Canadian researchers have simulated in an attempt to measure the potential effects against global warming.  |
| Designing the interplanetary web Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering technologies that ESA is working on for future exploration missions.  |
| Innovative glove-within-a-mitten lets users stay ‘touchscreen friendly’ in cold winter Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT It is snowing, it is cold and you are in full winter gear. How are you going to answer your phone or use a tablet outdoors with bulky gloves on? This was the question running through the mind of an undergraduate exchange student in Stockholm. With temperatures as cold as -20°C, she was not able to find gloves that would allow her use a touch screen phone, while keeping warm. So, she invented one – hybrid touch screen gloves that double up as mittens.  |
| European dung-fly females all aflutter for large males Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT European dung fly females prefer large males, making them the driving selective force behind the rare phenomenon in insects of large males and small females. This is what evolutionary ecologists discovered when they compared North American and European dung flies, which not only differ in sexual size dimorphism (SSD), but also in their mating behavior.  |
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