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- Diamond 'super-Earth' may not be quite so precious
- Innovative deep-sea manned submarine under construction
- Printed electronics: A multi-touch sensor customizable with scissors
- Working together: Bacteria join forces to produce electricity
- Babies learn to anticipate touch in the womb
- The negative results of concealing who you really are on the job
- Wedded bliss or blues? Scientists link DNA to marital satisfaction
- 3-D printed microscopic cages confine bacteria in tiny zoos for the study of infections
| Diamond 'super-Earth' may not be quite so precious Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT An alien world believed to be the first-known planet to consist largely of diamond now appears less likely to be of such precious nature, according to a new analysis.  |
| Innovative deep-sea manned submarine under construction Posted: 08 Oct 2013 11:21 AM PDT The University of Washington is working with Boeing and an Everett company to build a carbon-fiber submersible that will carry five passengers almost 2 miles deep.  |
| Printed electronics: A multi-touch sensor customizable with scissors Posted: 08 Oct 2013 08:24 AM PDT If a pair of long pants is too long, it is cut and hemmed. A board that does not fit into a bookcase is sawed to the right length. People often customize the size and shape of materials like textiles and wood without turning to specialists like tailors or carpenters. In the future this should be possible with electronics, according to the vision of computer scientists who have developed a printable multi-touch sensor whose shape and size everybody can alter. A new circuit layout makes it robust against cuts, damage, and removed areas.  |
| Working together: Bacteria join forces to produce electricity Posted: 08 Oct 2013 07:25 AM PDT Scientists have explored the relationships of two important bacterial forms, demonstrating their ability to produce electricity by coordinating their metabolic activities.  |
| Babies learn to anticipate touch in the womb Posted: 08 Oct 2013 06:17 AM PDT Babies learn how to anticipate touch while in the womb, according to new research. Using 4-D scans psychologists found, for the first time, that fetuses were able to predict, rather than react to, their own hand movements towards their mouths as they entered the later stages of gestation compared to earlier in a pregnancy.  |
| The negative results of concealing who you really are on the job Posted: 08 Oct 2013 06:07 AM PDT Most know that hiding something from others can cause internal angst. New research suggests the consequences can go far beyond emotional strife, and that being forced to keep information concealed, such as one's sexual orientation, disrupts the concealer's basic skills and abilities, including intellectual acuity, physical strength, and interpersonal grace—skills critical to workplace success.  |
| Wedded bliss or blues? Scientists link DNA to marital satisfaction Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT What makes some people more prone to wedded bliss or sorrow than others? Researchers have found a major clue in our DNA. A gene involved in the regulation of serotonin can predict how much our emotions affect our relationships, according to a new study that may be the first to link genetics, emotions, and marital satisfaction.  |
| 3-D printed microscopic cages confine bacteria in tiny zoos for the study of infections Posted: 07 Oct 2013 12:17 PM PDT Researchers have used a novel 3-D printing technology to build homes for bacteria at a microscopic level. Their method uses a laser to construct protein "cages" around bacteria in gelatin. The resulting structures can be of almost any shape or size, and can be moved around in relationship to other structures containing bacterial microcommunities.  |
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