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- The scent of love: Decomposition and male sex pheromones
- Speedy ions could add zip to quantum computers
- Florida state record 87 eggs in largest python from Everglades
- Research raises doubts about whether modern humans and Neanderthals interbred
- How computation can predict group conflict: Fighting among captive pigtailed macaques provides clues
- Optical fibers made from common materials
- Scientist invents pocket living room TV
| The scent of love: Decomposition and male sex pheromones Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:30 PM PDT Young virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) are attracted to cadavers by a combination of cadaver odour and male sex pheromones, finds a new study. Neither cadaver scent, nor male sex pheromones alone, caught the fancy of the fussy females. This predilection ensures that there is both a waiting male and food for her larvae, and optimizes the chances of reproductive success.  |
| Speedy ions could add zip to quantum computers Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:33 PM PDT Take that, sports cars! Physicists can accelerate their beryllium ions from zero to 100 miles per hour and stop them in just a few microseconds. The researchers think their zippy ions may be useful in future quantum computers.  |
| Florida state record 87 eggs in largest python from Everglades Posted: 13 Aug 2012 12:55 PM PDT Researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the snake, also a state record.  |
| Research raises doubts about whether modern humans and Neanderthals interbred Posted: 13 Aug 2012 12:55 PM PDT New research raises questions about the theory that modern humans and Neanderthals at some point interbred, known as hybridization. The findings suggest that common ancestry, not hybridization, better explains the average 1-4 per cent DNA that those of European and Asian descent (Eurasians) share with Neanderthals.  |
| How computation can predict group conflict: Fighting among captive pigtailed macaques provides clues Posted: 13 Aug 2012 12:55 PM PDT When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group. But it's been challenging to quantify the underlying trends that dictate how individuals make predictions, given they may only have seen a small number of fights or have limited memory. In a new study of primates (pigtailed macaques), scientists have developed a computational approach to determine whether individuals behave predictably.  |
| Optical fibers made from common materials Posted: 13 Aug 2012 07:33 AM PDT Researchers are taking common materials to uncommon places by transforming easily obtainable and affordable materials into fiber.  |
| Scientist invents pocket living room TV Posted: 13 Aug 2012 06:20 AM PDT Leaving your TV show midway because you had to leave your home will no longer happen as you can now 'pull' the program on your TV screen onto your tablet and continue watching it seamlessly.  |
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