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- Brain's mysterious switchboard operator revealed
- Writing the book in DNA: Geneticist encodes his book in life's language
- New 'microthrusters' could propel small satellites: As small as a penny, these thrusters run on jets of ion beams
- Spider version of Bigfoot emerges from caves in the Pacific Northwest
- Hot solar wind: Magnetic turbulence trumps collisions to heat solar wind
| Brain's mysterious switchboard operator revealed Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:15 PM PDT Researchers report that a mysterious region deep in the human brain could be where we sort through the onslaught of stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival.  |
| Writing the book in DNA: Geneticist encodes his book in life's language Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:56 AM PDT Using next-generation sequencing technology and a novel strategy to encode 1,000 times the largest data size previously achieved in DNA, a geneticist encodes his book in life's language.  |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:55 AM PDT A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device bears little resemblance to today's bulky satellite engines, which are laden with valves, pipes and heavy propellant tanks.  |
| Spider version of Bigfoot emerges from caves in the Pacific Northwest Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT The forests of the coastal regions from California to British Columbia are renowned for their unique and ancient animals and plants, such as coast redwoods, tailed frogs, mountain beavers and the legendary Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch). Whereas Bigfoot is probably just fiction, a huge, newly discovered spider is very real.  |
| Hot solar wind: Magnetic turbulence trumps collisions to heat solar wind Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:40 AM PDT New research has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The solar wind rushes outwards from the raging inferno that is our Sun, but from then on the wind should only get cooler as it expands beyond our solar system since there are no particle collisions to dissipate energy. However, the solar wind is surprisingly hotter than it should be, which has puzzled scientists for decades. Two new articles may have solved that puzzle.  |
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