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• What's baking on Saturn's moon Titan?
• Space station investigation to test fresh food experience
• Fruit fly's 'sweet tooth' short-lived, research finds
• Shape of urine can indicate prostate issues: Characteristic shape of a man's urine can help diagnose urinary problems
• When leaving your wealth to your sister's sons makes sense
• Dark matter filament studied in 3-D for the first time
• Giant harvestman yet to be named: Arachnologist discovers another giant of the animal world in Laos

What's baking on Saturn's moon Titan? Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:04 PM PDT Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature that resembles a giant hot cross bun and shorelines of ancient seas.

Space station investigation to test fresh food experience Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:02 PM PDT With all the prepackaged gardening kits on the market, an exceptionally green thumb isn't necessary to grow your own tasty fresh vegetables here on Earth. The same may hold true for U.S. astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station when they receive a newly developed Vegetable Production System, called VEGGIE for short, set to launch aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule on NASA's third Commercial Resupply Services mission next year.

Fruit fly's 'sweet tooth' short-lived, research finds Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:31 PM PDT While flies initially prefer food with a sweet flavor, they quickly learn to opt for less sweet food sources that offer more calories and nutritional value, according to new research by zoologists. The findings are the first to measure the shift in food preference over time, and the first to find that flies opt for nutritious food more quickly when they're hungry.

Shape of urine can indicate prostate issues: Characteristic shape of a man's urine can help diagnose urinary problems Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:31 PM PDT Scientists have discovered a simple test which uses the biomechanics of the shape of urine to help diagnose urinary problems.

When leaving your wealth to your sister's sons makes sense Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:28 PM PDT In some human societies, men transfer their wealth to their sister's sons, a practice that puzzles evolutionary biologists. A new study has produced insights into "matrilineal inheritance."

Dark matter filament studied in 3-D for the first time Posted: 16 Oct 2012 06:22 AM PDT Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have studied a giant filament of dark matter in 3D for the first time. Extending 60 million light-years from one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, the filament is part of the cosmic web that constitutes the large-scale structure of the Universe, and is a leftover of the very first moments after the Big Bang. If the high mass measured for the filament is representative of the rest of the Universe, then these structures may contain more than half of all the mass in the Universe.

Giant harvestman yet to be named: Arachnologist discovers another giant of the animal world in Laos Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:49 AM PDT A scientist has discovered a harvestman with a leg span of more than 33 centimetres. The creature found during a research trip to Laos is one of the largest representatives of the entire order worldwide. Experts have so far failed to properly identify it to species level.

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