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- Rare cliffhanging plant species uses unique reproductive strategy with ants
- Sexual arousal may decrease natural disgust response
- Belly button kidney removal boosts living-donor satisfaction
- Gut microbes help the body extract more calories from food
- A celestial witch’s broom? A new view of the Pencil Nebula
- Are our bones well designed? Insects and crabs have a leg up on us
- Predicting a die throw
- Comic relief for stressed emergency teams
| Rare cliffhanging plant species uses unique reproductive strategy with ants Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:45 PM PDT The Borderea chouardii plant, which is critically endangered and is found only on two adjacent cliff sides in the Pyrenees, employs a unique and risky doubly mutualistic reproductive strategy with local ants, according to new research.  |
| Sexual arousal may decrease natural disgust response Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:45 PM PDT Sex can be messy, but most people don't seem to mind too much, and new results suggest that this phenomenon may result from sexual arousal actually dampening humans' natural disgust response.  |
| Belly button kidney removal boosts living-donor satisfaction Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:19 PM PDT Living donors who had a kidney removed through a single port in the navel report higher satisfaction in several key categories, compared to donors who underwent traditional multiple-port laparoscopic removal, a new study shows.  |
| Gut microbes help the body extract more calories from food Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:51 AM PDT In a study using zebrafish, researchers reveal how microbes in the intestine aid the uptake of fats -- and suggest how diet may influence our bodies' microbial communities.  |
| A celestial witch’s broom? A new view of the Pencil Nebula Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova explosion that took place about 11,000 years ago.  |
| Are our bones well designed? Insects and crabs have a leg up on us Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:44 AM PDT Researchers in Ireland have recently shown that the legs of grasshoppers and crabs have the ideal shape to resist bending and compression. If human leg bones were built the same way, they could be twice as strong.  |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:35 AM PDT By combining chaos theory and high school level mechanics, scientists reveal that the random probability of a die throw can be determined and predicted, if you precisely understand the initial conditions.  |
| Comic relief for stressed emergency teams Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:01 PM PDT Researchers in the UK have created a comic influenced by the Japanese manga style to help busy medical staff who treat patients suffering from bleeding.  |
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