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- Study suggests why, in some species, mere presence of males shortens females' lifespan
- Memories 'geotagged' with spatial information
- Fruit flies with better sex lives live longer
- Eat crow if you think I'm a bird-brain
- Using moving cars to measure rainfall
- Physicists study coldest objects in universe
| Study suggests why, in some species, mere presence of males shortens females' lifespan Posted: 28 Nov 2013 11:14 AM PST Researchers have discovered that males of the laboratory roundworm secrete signaling molecules that significantly shorten the lifespan of the opposite sex.  |
| Memories 'geotagged' with spatial information Posted: 28 Nov 2013 11:14 AM PST Using a video game in which people navigate through a town delivering objects, a team of neuroscientists has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form "geotags" for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled. Their work shows how spatial information is incorporated into memories and why remembering an experience can bring to mind other events that happened in the same place.  |
| Fruit flies with better sex lives live longer Posted: 28 Nov 2013 11:12 AM PST Sex may in fact be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life – at least for fruit flies – suggests a new study. Sexually frustrated fruit flies in this lab lived shorter lives.  |
| Eat crow if you think I'm a bird-brain Posted: 28 Nov 2013 07:38 AM PST Scientists have long suspected that corvids – the family of birds including ravens, crows and magpies – are highly intelligent. Now, neurobiologists have demonstrated how the brains of crows produce intelligent behavior when the birds have to make strategic decisions.  |
| Using moving cars to measure rainfall Posted: 28 Nov 2013 07:38 AM PST Drivers on a rainy day regulate the speed of their windshield wipers according to rain intensity: faster in heavy rain and slower in light rain. This simple observation has inspired researchers to come up with 'RainCars', an initiative that aims to use GPS-equipped moving cars as devices to measure rainfall.  |
| Physicists study coldest objects in universe Posted: 27 Nov 2013 07:54 PM PST In a new study, a group of researchers has come up with a new way of measuring BECs by using a filter to cancel out the damage caused by the streams of light that are typically used to measure them. Some of these BECs are the coldest objects in the universe, and are so fragile that even a single photon can heat and destroy them.  |
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