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- Robots get a feel for the world: Touch more sensitve than a human's
- Chemists use nanopores to detect DNA damage
- 'Facebook for animals' tested on wild great tits
- Black holes as particle detectors
- Yankee Fans keep enemy Red Sox closer
- The weight of nations: An estimation of adult human biomass
| Robots get a feel for the world: Touch more sensitve than a human's Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:49 PM PDT What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. Specially designed robots can now be equipped with a sense of touch even more sensitive than that of humans.  |
| Chemists use nanopores to detect DNA damage Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:34 PM PDT Scientists are racing to sequence DNA faster and cheaper than ever by passing strands of the genetic material through molecule-sized pores. Now, scientists have adapted this "nanopore" method to find DNA damage that can lead to mutations and disease.  |
| 'Facebook for animals' tested on wild great tits Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:05 PM PDT A new way of analyzing the social networks that link individual animals to each other has been tested on wild great tits.  |
| Black holes as particle detectors Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:28 AM PDT Black holes could serve as particle detectors, say scientists. Axions, a hypothetical but not improbable kind of particles, could accumulate around a black hole, creating a "boson cloud". After some time, this boson cloud would collapse, sending out characteristic gravity waves.  |
| Yankee Fans keep enemy Red Sox closer Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:26 AM PDT Fans of the New York Yankees incorrectly perceive Fenway Park, home of the archrival Boston Red Sox, to be closer to New York City than is Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles, psychologists have found. Their research shows how social categorization, collective identification, and identity threat work in concert to shape our representations of the physical world.  |
| The weight of nations: An estimation of adult human biomass Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:50 AM PDT The world population is over seven billion and all of these people need feeding. However, the energy requirement of a species depends not only on numbers but on its average mass. New research has estimated the total mass of the human population, defined its distribution by region, and the proportion of this biomass due to the overweight and obesity.  |
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