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- Beer's bitter compounds could help brew new medicines
- Ants' behavior leads to research method for optimizing product development time, costs
- Real angry birds 'flip the bird' before a fight: Biologists use robots to study attacks of male swamp sparrows
- Scientists trick iron-eating bacteria into breathing electrons instead
- Survival of the prettiest: Sexual selection can be inferred from the fossil record
- Next generation solar cells: Trapping sunlight with microbeads
| Beer's bitter compounds could help brew new medicines Posted: 29 Jan 2013 10:08 AM PST Researchers using a century-old technique have determined the precise configuration of substances from hops that give beer its distinctive flavor. That could lead to formulation of new pharmaceuticals to treat diabetes, some cancers and other ailments.  |
| Ants' behavior leads to research method for optimizing product development time, costs Posted: 29 Jan 2013 08:17 AM PST Trying to find just the right balance of time spent in meetings and time performing tasks is a tough problem for managers, but a researcher believes the behavior of ants may provide a useful lesson on how to do it.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2013 07:02 AM PST Male sparrows are capable of fighting to the death. But a new study shows that they often wave their wings wildly first in an attempt to avoid a dangerous brawl.  |
| Scientists trick iron-eating bacteria into breathing electrons instead Posted: 29 Jan 2013 05:06 AM PST Scientists have developed a way to grow iron-oxidizing bacteria using electricity instead of iron, an advance that will allow them to better study the organisms and could one day be used to turn electricity into fuel.  |
| Survival of the prettiest: Sexual selection can be inferred from the fossil record Posted: 29 Jan 2013 05:02 AM PST Detecting sexual selection in the fossil record is not impossible. The term "sexual selection" refers to the evolutionary pressures that relate to a species' ability to repel rivals, meet mates and pass on genes. We can observe these processes happening in living animals, but how do palaeontologists know that sexual selection operated in fossil ones?  |
| Next generation solar cells: Trapping sunlight with microbeads Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:56 AM PST In five to seven years, solar cells will have become much cheaper and only one-twentieth as thick as current solar cells. The trick is to deceive the sunlight with microbeads.  |
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