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- Ancient plants reawaken: Plants exposed by retreating glaciers regrowing after centuries entombed under ice
- Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function
- A basketball shot coach that does not require a coach
- Guatemala's jaguars: Capturing phantoms in photos
- Shape-shifting nanoparticles flip from sphere to net in response to tumor signal
- Beer-pouring robot programmed to anticipate human actions
- Fast-sinking jellyfish could boost the oceans' uptake of carbon dioxide
- Century-old ocean data provides further confirmation of global warming
- Researcher builds replica human colon to improve water quality
- Charge your mobile phone with formic acid?
| Posted: 28 May 2013 05:25 PM PDT When Catherine La Farge threads her way through the recently exposed terrain left behind by retreating glaciers, she looks at the ancient plant remains a lot closer than most. Now, her careful scrutiny has revealed a startling reawakening of long-dormant plants known as bryophytes.  |
| Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function Posted: 28 May 2013 03:09 PM PDT Researchers now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an emotion-recognition task.  |
| A basketball shot coach that does not require a coach Posted: 28 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT A group of business and engineering students at Brigham Young University have invented a sports technology to help improve basketball performance.  |
| Guatemala's jaguars: Capturing phantoms in photos Posted: 28 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a photograph of a male jaguar taken by a remote camera trap in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Activated by motion or heat differentials, camera traps "capture" pictures of secretive and elusive animals in the wild. Because each jaguar's pattern of spots is unique, the photographs can be used to identify individuals and estimate abundance.  |
| Shape-shifting nanoparticles flip from sphere to net in response to tumor signal Posted: 28 May 2013 11:37 AM PDT Tiny spherical particles float easily through the bloodstream after injection, then assemble into a durable scaffold within diseased tissue. An enzyme produced by a specific type of tumor can trigger the transformation of the spheres into netlike structures that accumulate at the site of a cancer.  |
| Beer-pouring robot programmed to anticipate human actions Posted: 28 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT Understanding when and where to pour a beer or knowing when to offer assistance opening a refrigerator door can be difficult for a robot because of the many variables it encounters while assessing the situation. Researchers have created a solution: a robot that has learned to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand.  |
| Fast-sinking jellyfish could boost the oceans' uptake of carbon dioxide Posted: 28 May 2013 09:25 AM PDT Increasing numbers of gelatinous plankton might help in mitigating the carbon dioxide problem. In field and laboratory experiments scientists have shown that dead jellyfish and pelagic tunicates sink much faster than phytoplankton and marine snow remains. Jellies are especially important because they rapidly consume plankton and particles and quickly export biomass and carbon to the ocean interior.  |
| Century-old ocean data provides further confirmation of global warming Posted: 28 May 2013 07:45 AM PDT A new NASA and university analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation that human activities have warmed our planet over the past century.  |
| Researcher builds replica human colon to improve water quality Posted: 28 May 2013 07:01 AM PDT To better understand how bacteria impact the environment researchers spent nearly a year building a system that replicates a human colon, septic tank and groundwater and "fed" the colon three times a day during weeklong experiments to simulate human eating.  |
| Charge your mobile phone with formic acid? Posted: 27 May 2013 08:18 PM PDT With the technology of today it is possible to use environmental friendly formic acid in fuel cell powering your mobile phone or laptop. A physicist in Sweden has developed new catalysts to improve the capacity of these fuel cells.  |
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