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- What color is your night light? It may affect your mood
- Dolphins keep lifelong social memories, longest in a non-human species
- Evolutionary relationships among species of 'magic' mushrooms shed light on fungi
- Emotional behavior of adults could be triggered in the womb
- High-speed camera captures dancing droplets for scientific 'photo album'
- Bringing light to a halt: Physicists freeze motion of light for a minute
| What color is your night light? It may affect your mood Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:31 PM PDT When it comes to some of the health hazards of light at night, a new study in hamsters suggests that the color of the light can make a big difference.  |
| Dolphins keep lifelong social memories, longest in a non-human species Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:31 PM PDT Dolphins can recognize their old tank mates' whistles after being separated for more than 20 years — the longest social memory ever recorded for a non-human species.  |
| Evolutionary relationships among species of 'magic' mushrooms shed light on fungi Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:28 AM PDT "Magic" mushrooms are known for their hallucinogenic properties. New research helps uncover the evolutionary past of a fascinating fungi that has wide recreational use and is currently under investigation for a variety of medicinal applications. Using new molecular and computational techniques, researchers have produced the first multi-gene evaluation of Psilocybe, which constitutes a major step in classifying and naming "magic" mushrooms.  |
| Emotional behavior of adults could be triggered in the womb Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:27 AM PDT Adults could be at greater risk of becoming anxious and vulnerable to poor mental health if they were deprived of certain hormones while developing in the womb according to new research.  |
| High-speed camera captures dancing droplets for scientific 'photo album' Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:25 AM PDT The splash from rain hitting a windowpane or printer ink hitting paper all comes down to tiny droplets hitting a surface, and what each of those droplets does. Researchers have produced a high-resolution "photo album" of more than 30 shapes an oscillated drop of water can take. The results, a fundamental insight into how droplets behave, could have applications in everything from inkjet printing to microfluidics.  |
| Bringing light to a halt: Physicists freeze motion of light for a minute Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:11 AM PDT Physicists have been able to stop something that has the greatest possible speed and that never really stops: light. A decade ago, physicists stopped it very for a short moment. In recent years, this extended towards stop times of a few seconds for simple light pulses in extremely cold gases and special crystals. But now the same researchers extended the possible duration and applications for freezing the motion of light considerably. The physicists stopped light for about one minute. They were also able to save images that were transferred by the light pulse into the crystal for a minute -- a million times longer than previously possible.  |
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