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- Lab-made complexes are 'sun sponges'
- High-precision measurement of subatomic shape shifting and new result on differences among neutrino masses
- Physicists pinpoint key property of material that both conducts and insulates
- First scientific method to authenticate world's costliest coffee, from the feces of the palm civet
- Crocodile confession: Meat-eating predators occasionally eat fruit
- Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos
- Honeyguide birds destroy own species' eggs to eliminate competition
- For disappointed sports fans, defeats increase consumption of fat and sugar
- 'Zombie vortices' may be key step in star formation
| Lab-made complexes are 'sun sponges' Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT Scientists have described a testbed for light-harvesting antennae, the structures that capture the sun's light in plants and bacteria. Prototype designs built on the testbed soak up more of the sun's spectrum and are far easier to assemble than synthetic antennas made entirely from scratch. They offer the best of both worlds, combining human synthetic ingenuity with the repertoire of robust chemical machinery selected by evolution.  |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT New results about the oscillation of neutrinos -- elusive, ghostlike particles that carry invaluable clues about the makeup of the early universe -- have been announced by the Daya Bay Collaboration, an international experiment taking place outside of Hong Kong.  |
| Physicists pinpoint key property of material that both conducts and insulates Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:23 AM PDT Scientists have made the first-ever accurate determination of a solid-state triple point -- the temperature and pressure at which three different solid phases can coexist stably -- in a substance called vanadium dioxide.  |
| First scientific method to authenticate world's costliest coffee, from the feces of the palm civet Posted: 21 Aug 2013 09:45 AM PDT The world's most expensive coffee can cost $80 a cup, and scientists now are reporting development of the first way to verify authenticity of this crème de la crème, the beans of which come from the feces of a Southeast Asian animal called a palm civet. Their study appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.  |
| Crocodile confession: Meat-eating predators occasionally eat fruit Posted: 21 Aug 2013 09:43 AM PDT A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that the American alligator and a dozen other crocodile species enjoy an occasional taste of fruit along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish.  |
| Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:49 AM PDT Scientists have written software that could guide spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, show that the planet Nibiru doesn't exist... and prove that the Earth goes around the Sun.  |
| Honeyguide birds destroy own species' eggs to eliminate competition Posted: 21 Aug 2013 05:54 AM PDT Like cuckoos, honeyguides are parasitic birds that lay their eggs in other birds' nests and dupe them into raising their young. Now scientists reveal that, unlike in cuckoos, the resemblance between honeyguide eggs and those of their bee-eater bird hosts hasn't evolved to trick hosts into accepting the imposter egg as one of their own.  |
| For disappointed sports fans, defeats increase consumption of fat and sugar Posted: 21 Aug 2013 05:54 AM PDT On the Monday following a big football game, fans of the losing team seem to load up on saturated fats and sugars, whereas supporters of the winning team opt for healthier foods, according to new research.  |
| 'Zombie vortices' may be key step in star formation Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:58 PM PDT Scientists have proposed a new model that elucidates a key step in star formation. They point to "zombie vortices" as a destabilizing force needed to help protostars accumulate the mass needed to grow into stars.  |
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