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- Shrubs lend insight into a glacier's past
- 'Pac-Man' moons: Cassini finds a video gamers' paradise at Saturn
- Ancient microbes found living beneath the icy surface of Antarctic lake
- Using biomarkers from prehistoric human feces to track settlement and agriculture
- New device hides, on cue, from infrared cameras
- Smelling a white odor
- Microbial 'missing link' discovered after man impales hand on tree branch
| Shrubs lend insight into a glacier's past Posted: 26 Nov 2012 04:27 PM PST The stems of shrubs have given researchers a window into a glacier's past, potentially allowing them to more accurately assess how they're set to change in the future.  |
| 'Pac-Man' moons: Cassini finds a video gamers' paradise at Saturn Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:11 PM PST You could call it "Pac-Man, the Sequel." Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys. (The first was found on Mimas in 2010). The pattern appears in thermal data obtained by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, with warmer areas making up the Pac-Man shape.  |
| Ancient microbes found living beneath the icy surface of Antarctic lake Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:10 PM PST A pioneering study reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a living in a dark, salty and subfreezing environment beneath nearly 20 meters of ice in one of Antarctica's most isolated lakes.  |
| Using biomarkers from prehistoric human feces to track settlement and agriculture Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:10 PM PST Geoscientists have used a biomarker from human feces in a new way to establish the first human presence, the arrival of grazing animals and human population dynamics in a landscape.  |
| New device hides, on cue, from infrared cameras Posted: 26 Nov 2012 10:13 AM PST Now you see it, now you don't. A new device can absorb 99.75 percent of infrared light that shines on it. When activated, it appears black to infrared cameras.  |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2012 08:12 AM PST Scientists have applied the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell.  |
| Microbial 'missing link' discovered after man impales hand on tree branch Posted: 26 Nov 2012 08:07 AM PST Two years ago, a 71-year-old Indiana man impaled his hand on a branch after cutting down a dead tree. The wound caused an infection that led scientists to discover a new bacterium and solve a mystery about how bacteria came to live inside insects.  |
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