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- Graphene 'onion rings' have delicious potential
- Snow in an infant solar system: A frosty landmark for planet and comet formation
- Best romantic singers are male bats
- Microbes can influence evolution of their hosts
- Chimpanzees and orangutans remember distant past events
- Movement without muscles study in insects could inspire robot and prosthetic limb developments
- This fungus cell only looks like the 405 freeway
- Shorebirds prefer a good body to a large brain
| Graphene 'onion rings' have delicious potential Posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:30 AM PDT Hexagonal graphene "onion rings" are the product of growing two-dimensional carbon in a high-pressure, hydrogen-rich environment.  |
| Snow in an infant solar system: A frosty landmark for planet and comet formation Posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:27 AM PDT A snow line has been imaged in a far-off infant solar system for the very first time. The snow line, located in the disc around the Sun-like star TW Hydrae, promises to tell us more about the formation of planets and comets, the factors that decide their composition, and the history of the Solar System.  |
| Best romantic singers are male bats Posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:25 AM PDT Male bats appear to be the sexy singers of the animal world: they have learned to vocalize in a specific way to attract females, but once they have their attention, they change their tune – literally. They then produce a more creative array of sounds to entertain and keep the females interested.  |
| Microbes can influence evolution of their hosts Posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:24 AM PDT Contrary to current scientific understanding, it appears that our microbial companions play an important role in their hosts' evolution. A new study provides the first direct evidence that these microbes can contribute to the origin of new species by reducing the viability of hybrids produced between males and females of different species.  |
| Chimpanzees and orangutans remember distant past events Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:06 AM PDT We humans can remember events in our lives that happened years ago, with those memories often surfacing unexpectedly in response to sensory triggers like flavor or scent. Now, researchers have evidence to suggest that chimpanzees and orangutans have similar capacities. In laboratory tests, both primate species were clearly able to recollect a tool-finding event that they had experienced just four times three years earlier and a singular event from two weeks before, the researchers show.  |
| Movement without muscles study in insects could inspire robot and prosthetic limb developments Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:05 AM PDT Neurobiologists have shown that insect limbs can move without muscles -- a finding that may provide engineers with new ways to improve the control of robotic and prosthetic limbs.  |
| This fungus cell only looks like the 405 freeway Posted: 18 Jul 2013 07:13 AM PDT Mathematicians have created a video of a live fungus, with many millions of nuclei in a single cell.  |
| Shorebirds prefer a good body to a large brain Posted: 18 Jul 2013 07:09 AM PDT In many animal species, males and females differ in terms of their brain size. The most common explanation is that these differences stem from sexual selection. But predictions are not always certain. Scientists have discovered that a group of coastal birds, shorebirds, do not choose their mates by brain size but "on their physiques".  |
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