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• Cleaning with sunlight
• Musical glove improves sensation, mobility for people with spinal cord injury
• Why does the week before your vacation seem longer when you're going far away?
• Frog calls inspire a new algorithm for wireless networks
• Female money doesn't buy male happiness: Macho men let their female partner's higher income threaten their relationship
• Glacier break creates ice island twice size of Manhattan
• World record: Lightest material in the world produced

Cleaning with sunlight Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:29 AM PDT The sun breaks through the clouds -- and surfaces start cleaning themselves! It may sound like magic, but in fact it's all thanks to the addition of titanium dioxide molecules. Activated by UV light, they trigger a reaction which destroys bacteria, algae and fungi, keeping items such as the armrests of garden chairs nice and clean.

Musical glove improves sensation, mobility for people with spinal cord injury Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:17 AM PDT Researchers have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills for people with paralyzing spinal cord injury.

Why does the week before your vacation seem longer when you're going far away? Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Consumer decision-making is affected by the relationship between time and spatial distance, according to a new study.

Frog calls inspire a new algorithm for wireless networks Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:01 AM PDT Males of the Japanese tree frog have learnt not to use their calls at the same time so that the females can distinguish between them. Scientists in Spain have used this form of calling behavior to create an algorithm that assigns colours to network nodes -- an operation that can be applied to developing efficient wireless networks.

Female money doesn't buy male happiness: Macho men let their female partner's higher income threaten their relationship Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:01 AM PDT Macho men whose partners earn more than they do have worse romantic relationships, in part because the difference in income is a strain for them, according to a new study. Conversely, men who are not so traditional in their masculinity do not place as much importance on the difference in income and, as a result, appear to have better quality relationships with their female partner.

Glacier break creates ice island twice size of Manhattan Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier, according to researchers. This marks the second massive break in two years.

World record: Lightest material in the world produced Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:48 AM PDT A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world. It weights only 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter, and is therefore 75 times lighter than Styrofoam, but it is very strong nevertheless.

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