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- Light steered in new directions: 2-D material could lead to shaped, wavy, curved, and sharply bending ways to steer light
- Scientists use 'wired microbes' to generate electricity from sewage
- Wide-faced men make others act selfishly
- Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material
- Feeling small: Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface
- Doing research in the pub
- Time is in the eye of the beholder: Time perception in animals depends on their pace of life
- Arachnophobic entomologists: When two more legs make a big difference
- Snake robot on Mars?
| Posted: 16 Sep 2013 01:20 PM PDT For the first time, researchers have built and demonstrated the ability of two-dimensional disordered photonic band gap material, designed to be a platform to control light in unprecedented ways. The new material could lead to arbitrarily shaped, wavy, curved, and sharply bending ways to steer light.  |
| Scientists use 'wired microbes' to generate electricity from sewage Posted: 16 Sep 2013 01:17 PM PDT Engineers have devised a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring "wired microbes" as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste.  |
| Wide-faced men make others act selfishly Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:04 AM PDT Researchers have previously shown that men with wider faces are more aggressive, less trustworthy and more prone to engaging in deception. Now they have shown, in a series of four studies, that individuals behave more selfishly when interacting with men with wider faces and this selfish behavior elicits selfish behavior in others.  |
| Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:04 AM PDT Engineers have developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines advanced ink-jet printing technology with self-assembling block copolymers.  |
| Feeling small: Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface Posted: 16 Sep 2013 08:08 AM PDT In a ground-breaking study, Swedish scientists have shown that people can detect nano-scale wrinkles while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface. The findings could lead such advances as touch screens for the visually impaired and other products.  |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2013 08:08 AM PDT A research team has analysed how the body language of the potential customer helps the bartenders to identify who would like to place an order and who does not. The team found that real-life observations were at odds with the widespread belief that customers wave for signalling that they would like to order a drink.  |
| Time is in the eye of the beholder: Time perception in animals depends on their pace of life Posted: 16 Sep 2013 07:20 AM PDT Scientists have shown that animals' ability to perceive time is linked to their pace of life. The rate at which time is perceived varies across animals. For example, flies owe their skill at avoiding rolled up newspapers to their ability to observe motion on finer timescales than our own eyes can achieve, allowing them to avoid the newspaper in a similar fashion to the "bullet time" sequence in the popular film The Matrix. In contrast, one species of tiger beetle runs faster than its eyes can keep up, essentially becoming blind and requiring it to stop periodically to re-evaluate its prey's position. Even in humans, athletes in various sports have also been shown to quicken their eyes' ability to track moving balls during games.  |
| Arachnophobic entomologists: When two more legs make a big difference Posted: 16 Sep 2013 06:12 AM PDT For some entomologists, an apparent paradox exists: despite choosing a career working with insects, they exhibit negative feelings toward spiders which range from mild disgust to extreme arachnophobia.  |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2013 06:10 AM PDT The ESA wants its operations on other planets to have greater mobility and manoeuvrability. Researchers are looking into whether snake robots could be the answer.  |
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