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- NASA's Cassini watches Saturn storm choke on its own tail
- This is what a fish thought looks like
- Genome shows mutant gene gives pigeons fancy hairdos
- Zebrafish may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eyesight to people
- Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture
- Virtual superpowers encourage real-world empathy
- Jocks beat bookworms on brain test
- Giant carbon molecules for sustainable technologies
- Protein origami: Quick folders are the best
- Disappearing homing pigeon mystery solved
| NASA's Cassini watches Saturn storm choke on its own tail Posted: 31 Jan 2013 11:54 AM PST Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous thunder-and-lightning storm on Saturn, scientists from NASA's Cassini mission describe how the massive storm churned around the planet until it encountered its own tail and sputtered out. It is the first time scientists have observed a storm consume itself in this way anywhere in the solar system.  |
| This is what a fish thought looks like Posted: 31 Jan 2013 11:44 AM PST For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of perception. It might even find use in psychiatric drug discovery, according to authors of a new study.  |
| Genome shows mutant gene gives pigeons fancy hairdos Posted: 31 Jan 2013 11:40 AM PST Researchers have decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, unlocking secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with escaped racing birds, and how mutations give pigeons traits like a fancy feather hairdo known as a head crest.  |
| Zebrafish may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eyesight to people Posted: 31 Jan 2013 09:13 AM PST Zebrafish, the staple of genetic research, may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eyesight to people. Researchers have discovered that a zebrafish's stem cells can selectively regenerate damaged photoreceptor cells.  |
| Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture Posted: 31 Jan 2013 06:53 AM PST Comet explosions and asteroid impacts could not have ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture, a new study contends.  |
| Virtual superpowers encourage real-world empathy Posted: 31 Jan 2013 06:53 AM PST Giving test subjects Superman-like flight in a virtual reality simulator makes them more likely to exhibit altruistic behavior in real life, researchers find.  |
| Jocks beat bookworms on brain test Posted: 31 Jan 2013 06:51 AM PST English Premier League soccer players, NHL hockey players, France's Top 14 club rugby players, and even elite amateur athletes have better developed cognitive functions than the average university student, according to a new perception study.  |
| Giant carbon molecules for sustainable technologies Posted: 31 Jan 2013 06:51 AM PST Scientists in the joint research project "FUNgraphen" are pinning their hopes for new technologies on a particular form of carbon: They have developed new carbon macromolecules and molecular carbon composite materials with special properties. The molecules are derived from graphene, a substance that consists of individual layers of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb-like pattern. The process previously necessary to make use of this substance was complex and expensive and thus of little value for most plastics applications.  |
| Protein origami: Quick folders are the best Posted: 31 Jan 2013 05:44 AM PST The evolutionary history of proteins shows that protein folding is an important factor. Especially the speed of protein folding plays a key role. This was the result of computer analysis. For almost four billions of years, there has been a trend towards faster folding.  |
| Disappearing homing pigeon mystery solved Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:41 PM PST Homing pigeons are remarkable navigators. Although they are able to find their loft from almost any location, they do get lost occasionally. The reason why had been a mystery until a scientist wondered if the birds use the loft's infrasound signature as a homing beacon to get their bearings. He discovered that the atmosphere misdirected the loft's infrasound signal on days when pigeons were lost, preventing them from finding the correct bearing home.  |
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