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- Milky Way black hole snacks on hot gas
- Rats take high-speed multisensory snapshots: Smell and touch, sniffing and 'whisking,' are locked in sync
- 20-million-year-old amber shatters theories of glass as a liquid
- Parents who suck on their infants' pacifiers may protect their children against developing allergy
- Ice Age ancestors might have used words in common with us
- Plants 'talk' to plants to help them grow
- Scaling up gyroscopes: From navigation to measuring Earth's rotation
| Milky Way black hole snacks on hot gas Posted: 07 May 2013 05:15 PM PDT The Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.  |
| Posted: 07 May 2013 04:56 PM PDT New research from the laboratory shows that rats create high-speed "snapshots" of the environment by synchronized use of the senses of smell (sniffing) and touch (through their whiskers). Furthermore sniffing and "whisking" movements are synchronized at the same phase even when they are running at different frequencies, facilitating integration of multisensory information. The research sheds new light on biological rhythms that may evolutionarily underpin much animal behavior.  |
| 20-million-year-old amber shatters theories of glass as a liquid Posted: 07 May 2013 12:49 PM PDT Fact or fiction? Stained glass found in medieval cathedrals becomes thicker at the bottom because glass moves over time. For years researchers have had their doubts, now scientists have further evidence that glass is not going anywhere.  |
| Parents who suck on their infants' pacifiers may protect their children against developing allergy Posted: 07 May 2013 07:31 AM PDT Allergies are very common in industrialized countries. It has been suggested that exposure to harmless bacteria during infancy may be protective against the development of allergy. However, it has been difficult to pinpoint which bacteria a baby should be exposed to, and at what time and by which route this exposure should ideally occur.  |
| Ice Age ancestors might have used words in common with us Posted: 07 May 2013 04:46 AM PDT New research shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, man and bark, that in some cases could still be recognized today.  |
| Plants 'talk' to plants to help them grow Posted: 07 May 2013 03:08 AM PDT Having a neighborly chat improves seed germination, finds new research. Even when other known means of communication, such as contact, chemical and light-mediated signals, are blocked, chilli seeds grow better when grown with basil plants. This suggests that plants are talking via nanomechanical vibrations.  |
| Scaling up gyroscopes: From navigation to measuring Earth's rotation Posted: 06 May 2013 01:12 PM PDT Researchers discuss "large ring laser gyroscopes" that are six orders of magnitude more sensitive than gyroscopes commercially available.  |
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