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- Ingredient of household plastic found in space
- Finding the place where the brain creates illusory shapes and surfaces
- Engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA
- Testosterone promotes reciprocity in the absence of competition
- Alcohol leaving the UK charts with a hangover
- The immune system benefits from life in the countryside
- Beyond the little blue pill: Compound developed that may treat priapism
- Do black holes have 'hair'? New hypothesis challenges 'clean' model
| Ingredient of household plastic found in space Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:08 PM PDT NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan. This is the first definitive detection of the plastic ingredient on any moon or planet, other than Earth.  |
| Finding the place where the brain creates illusory shapes and surfaces Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT Neuroscientists have identified the location in the brain's visual cortex responsible for generating a common perceptual illusion: Seeing shapes and surfaces that don't really exist when viewing a fragmented background.  |
| Engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT Scientists have developed a programming language for chemistry that they hope will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices.  |
| Testosterone promotes reciprocity in the absence of competition Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:39 AM PDT Boosting testosterone can promote generosity, but only when there is no threat of competition, according to new research. The findings show that testosterone is implicated in behaviors that help to foster and maintain social relationships, indicating that its effects are more nuanced than previously thought.  |
| Alcohol leaving the UK charts with a hangover Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:18 AM PDT Are we allowing alcohol marketing to children and teens via the music they love? As many as one in five songs in the UK top ten today include references to alcohol -- a figure rising partly due to US-imported songs. What impact is this having on the youth of today?  |
| The immune system benefits from life in the countryside Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:18 AM PDT Research has demonstrated that exposure to a farming environment may prevent or dampen hypersensitivities and allergies -- even in adults.  |
| Beyond the little blue pill: Compound developed that may treat priapism Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:38 AM PDT It's not the little blue pill famous for helping men get big results, but the outcome might be more significant. New research offers hope for priapism, which causes erections lasting so long that they cause permanent damage. The compound, "C6'" offered mice relief by normalizing nitric oxide levels in penile blood. The action of C6' also provides insight for future research related to vascular and circulatory disorders.  |
| Do black holes have 'hair'? New hypothesis challenges 'clean' model Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:37 AM PDT A black hole. A simple and clear concept, at least according to the hypothesis by Roy Kerr, who in 1963 proposed a "clean" black hole model, which is the current theoretical paradigm. From theory to reality things may be quite different. According to a new research black holes may be much "dirtier" than what Kerr believed.  |
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