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- Scientists discover thriving colonies of microbes in ocean 'plastisphere'
- A telescope for your eye: New contact lens design may improve sight of patients with macular degeneration
- Sea lampreys turning up the heat
- Imagination can change what we hear and see
- Social networks shape monkey 'culture' too
- What makes a video go viral? More than just good content
- Researchers Discover Species-Recognition System in Fruit Flies
- Sterilizing Mars spacecraft is largely a waste of money, two experts argue
| Scientists discover thriving colonies of microbes in ocean 'plastisphere' Posted: 27 Jun 2013 11:25 AM PDT Scientists have discovered a diverse multitude of microbes colonizing and thriving on flecks of plastic that have polluted the oceans -- a vast new human-made flotilla of microbial communities that they have dubbed the "plastisphere."  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:53 AM PDT Contact lenses correct eyesight but do nothing to improve blurry vision of those suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the western world. Now a team of researchers has created a slim, telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision. With refinements, the system could offer AMD patients a relatively unobtrusive way to enhance their vision.  |
| Sea lampreys turning up the heat Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:53 AM PDT Scientists found that male sea lampreys have a secondary sex characteristic that creates heat when they get near a female lamprey, something the females find hard to say no to.  |
| Imagination can change what we hear and see Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:51 AM PDT Our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing "in our head" can change our actual perception. The study sheds new light on a classic question in psychology and neuroscience -- about how our brains combine information from the different senses.  |
| Social networks shape monkey 'culture' too Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:51 AM PDT Of course Twitter and Facebook are all the rage, but the power of social networks didn't start just in the digital age. A new study on squirrel monkeys finds that monkeys with the strongest social networks catch on fastest to the latest in foraging crazes. They are monkey trendsters.  |
| What makes a video go viral? More than just good content Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:45 AM PDT If you want your homegrown video to go viral, you'd better have more than just good content. Find someone to endorse it, the more well known the better.  |
| Researchers Discover Species-Recognition System in Fruit Flies Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:45 AM PDT A team of researchers has discovered a sensory system in the foreleg of the fruit fly that tells male flies whether a potential mate is from a different species. The work addresses a central problem in evolution that is poorly understood: how animals of one species know not to mate with animals of other species.  |
| Sterilizing Mars spacecraft is largely a waste of money, two experts argue Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:26 AM PDT Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive -- on Mars.  |
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