ScienceDaily: Strange Science News |
- Male politicians have 'bigger heads' in more gender-equal cultures
- Mayfly with springtail hitchhiker: Amber specimen -- 16 million years old -- reveals unknown animal behaviors
- Dolphins can remain alert for up to 15 days at a time with no sign of fatigue
- Student engineers design, build, fly 'printed' airplane
- Evolutionary origins of our pretty smile
- Bus service for qubits: Spin-orbit qubits are right at home in electrical circuits
- Extreme 'housework' cuts the life span of female Komodo dragons
- Shark social networking: Shark migrations studied with underwater robot along Delmarva Peninsula
| Male politicians have 'bigger heads' in more gender-equal cultures Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:13 PM PDT When it comes to analyzing gender stereotypes in the media, studies have shown that photographs of men focus on male faces while photographs of women are more focused on women's bodies. A recent study finds that this type of "face-ism" is even more extreme in cultures with less educational, professional, and political gender discrimination.  |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:13 PM PDT Stunning images from a CT scan of amber have revealed the first evidence of any creature using an adult mayfly for transport. Researchers say this 16-million-year-old hitchhiker most likely demonstrates activity that is taking place today but has never previously been recorded.  |
| Dolphins can remain alert for up to 15 days at a time with no sign of fatigue Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:12 PM PDT Dolphins sleep with only one half of their brains at a time, and according to new research, this trait allows them to stay constantly alert for at least 15 days in a row.  |
| Student engineers design, build, fly 'printed' airplane Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:13 AM PDT Two mechanical engineering students have built and flown a plastic airplane using 3-D printing technology.  |
| Evolutionary origins of our pretty smile Posted: 17 Oct 2012 10:18 AM PDT It takes both teeth and jaws to make a pretty smile, but the evolutionary origins of these parts of our anatomy have only just been discovered, thanks to a particle accelerator and a long dead fish.  |
| Bus service for qubits: Spin-orbit qubits are right at home in electrical circuits Posted: 17 Oct 2012 10:18 AM PDT Superconducting circuit technology meets semiconductor qubit technology to afford a means of moving quantum information from one place to another in future quantum computers.  |
| Extreme 'housework' cuts the life span of female Komodo dragons Posted: 17 Oct 2012 07:29 AM PDT Researchers have found that female Komodo dragons live half as long as males on average, seemingly due to their physically demanding "housework" such as building huge nests and guarding eggs for up to six months.  |
| Shark social networking: Shark migrations studied with underwater robot along Delmarva Peninsula Posted: 17 Oct 2012 06:13 AM PDT Researchers are using an underwater robot to find and follow sand tiger sharks that they previously tagged with transmitters. The innovative project aims to better understand the behavior and migration patterns of the sharks in real time.  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from ScienceDaily: Strange Science News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment