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An infographic that shows the emergence of the shark ecotourism market. CLICK for magnified view.

Animals

Sharks worth more money alive in the ocean than in a soup bowl, study finds

May 31, 2013 - Updated on October 7, 2023

A living South African sideneck turtle next to its 260-million-year-old relative, Eunotosaurus africanus.

Animals

How the turtle got its shell: earliest ancestor sheds light

This shows two microstructures made with the new material, containing the highest concentration of RDGE. Left: Pre-charring. These pyramid and bunny models did not respond to the preferred method of 3-D shaping, so they were created using an alternative process. Right: Post-charring. Notice that the pyramid and bunny shrink significantly less than those made from the material with a lower concentration of RDGE. Credit: Optical Materials Express

Animals

World’s tiniest sculpted bunny is the size of a bacteria

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Discoveries

Brain signature offers better indicator for predicting autism

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Physics

World’s most precise clock unveiled loses one “tick” in 10^18 “tocks”

Geology

Bird like fossil is older than Archaeopterix

May 30, 2013 - Updated on April 23, 2024

(c) Semyon Grigoriev

Discoveries

Fantastically preserved mammoth carcass with flowing blood discovered in icy Siberia

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Research

Psychic robot can anticipate when you want a beer and pours you one

Roles of Neuregulin 1 in neural development. NRG1 is released from neurons to promote the formation and maintenance of radial glial cells. Tangential migration of γ-aminobutyric acid-ergic interneurons requires NRG1 in the cortical region. Myelination and ensheathment of peripheral nerves are controlled by the amounts of NRG1 produced in substrate axons. NRG1 from axons might regulate oligodendrocyte development and myelination of axons in the CNS. NRG1 is also necessary for the formation of neuromuscular junctions – NMJs. NRG1 stimulates CNS synapse formation (Lin Mei & Wen-Cheng Xiong, 2008)

Mind & Brain

Schizophrenia symptoms canceled in mice after gene therapy

Electrons (the blue blobs) trapped inside calcium oxide cages. (c) PNASElectrons (the blue blobs) trapped inside calcium oxide cages. (c) PNAS

Chemistry

Modern ‘alchemy’ turns cement into semiconducting metal

Biology

Using cells as living calculators

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Archaeology

5,000 amazing cave paintings discovered in Mexico [PHOTOS]

Diseases

Researcher finds new immune system in mucus

May 27, 2013 - Updated on July 25, 2019

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Robotics

Smartest computer in the world ‘hired’ as tech support

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Anthropology

Early hominids started walking on two legs because of shifting geology

May 27, 2013 - Updated on November 16, 2020

Microprocessor with DNA (illustration). Scientists have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations (Credit: © Giovanni Cancemi / Fotolia)

Health

Scientists create advanced biological transducer

Studies

Making insects taste like buttery popcorn

This little fellow on the left might look like he's about to take for a flight, but he knows better. (c) National Geographic

Animals

Why penguins can’t fly: you can’t be good at two things at once

This waterproof fabric sucks water through one side and expells it through the other, keeping the fabric dry and breathable. (c) University of California Davis

Physics

Waterproof fabric sucks sweat, stays dry and breathable

A three-dimensional view of a p-Pb collision that produced collective flow behavior. The green lines are the trajectories of the sub-atomic particles produced by the collision reconstructed by the CMS tracking system. The red and blue bars represent the energy measured by the instrument's two sets of calorimeters. (CMS Collaboration)

Discoveries

Smallest liquid droplets created at LHC are 100,000th the size of a hydrogen atom

Water filtering out of the floor of a deep Ontario mine has been trapped underground for more than a billion years. It bubbles with gasses carrying nutrients that could sustain microbial life. (c) J TELLING

Alien life

Ancient billion-year-old water pocket discovered beneath Canadian mine may reveal how life formed

Internal anatomy of V. cardui as it develops within the chrysalis. The tracheal system is blue, the midgut is red, the air lumen is green, and the Malpighian tubules (part of the excretory system) are orange. (c) Lowe et al

Animals

CT scan images caterpillar to butterfly metamorphosis in 3-D

May 15, 2013 - Updated on February 15, 2019

(A) KJS 7472, a small bovid metatarsal from KS-2 bearing cut marks; (B) KJS 7379, a medium-sized bovid humerus from KS3 bearing pair of hammerstone notches, the specimen is also cut-marked (not figured); (C) KJS 5447, a mammal limb bone shaft fragment from KS-2 with percussion pit and striae, the specimen is also cut-marked (not figured); (D) KJS 2565, a small bovid femur from KS-2 with numerous cut marks. Scale is 1 cm in panels (A-D); 1 mm in the panel (D) close-up. Specimen numbers are field designations, not KNM accession numbers.

Anthropology

Oldest evidence of hunting by human ancestors is two million years old

Mind & Brain

Your brain detects grammar errors even when you’re not aware of them

Mathematician Yitang Zhang. (c) MAGGIE MCKEE

Discoveries

First mathematical proof that prime numbers come in infinite pairs

A scanning electron micrograph shows the bladder of Utricularia gibba, the humped bladderwort plant (color added). (Photo : Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Claudia Anahí Pérez-Torres and Paulina Lozano-Sotomayor)

Biology

Carnivorous plant disposes of “Junk” DNA, hinting it may not be necessary

An international team of researchers has found direct evidence of pear-shaped nuclei in atoms. (c) Liam Gaffney and Peter Butler, University of Liverpool)

Physics

Nucleus shaped like a pear challenges current understanding of physics

Hand-held device for extracting DNA. (c) UW/NanoFacture/KNR

Diseases

New, tiny device can extract clean DNA material within minutes

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Diseases

Gray hair reversal process discovered by scientists

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Research

Cheap $200 repurposed DVD drive analyzes blood samples for HIV in mere days

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Alien life

Most promising Earth-like planets found by Kepler

Health

Autism can be detected by analyzing brain activity

The Large Hadron Collider may have shut down, but physicists are using some unusual techniques to test it, including a ping-pong ball.

Physics

LHC passes ‘hardest’ test yet: ping-pong ball blazes through particle accelerator

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment uses five towers of dark matter detectors like the ones shown here. Image: Fermilab

Discoveries

Dark matter experiment finds three tangible clues of its existence

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Mind & Brain

Our most fondest and valuable memories are cemented during sleep

April 15, 2013 - Updated on August 27, 2023

Bones from Lufengosaurus embryos (like this femur shown in cross-section) have yielded new information about dinosaur development.

Discoveries

Oldest dinosaur embryos found in China

A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. (c) Nathan Rogers

Discoveries

Evidence found that dinosaurs could swim through coordinated leg movement

These snapshots at various times during the simulation of a stimulated turbulence in hot plasma show the energy density. In the bright regions, energy and temperature are the greatest in each case. © David Radice / Luciano Rezzolla (AEI)

Physics

Relativistic computation brings us one step closer to accurately describing turbulence

The atomic patterns in quasicrystals like this model of an aluminium-palladium-manganese surface exhibit order, but never repeat. (Photo: J.W. Evans, Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy)

Physics

State of matter difference between liquids and solids redefined

Animals

Lizards have survival instincts even before they are born

An ionic thruster scheme developed by NASA.

Physics

Ionic thrusters display huge efficiency, mandating more attention

Courtesy of Andrew Friedman.

Environmental Issues

Rising hemisphere temperature difference shifts tropical rainfall patterns

Magnetic structure in a colossal magneto-resistive manganite is switched from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic ordering during about 100 femtosecond (10^-15 s) laser pulse photo-excitation. With time so short and the laser pulses still interacting with magnetic moments, the magnetic switching is driven quantum mechanically– not thermally. This potentially opens the door to terahertz (10^12 hertz) and faster memory writing/reading speeds.(credit: DOE Ames Laboratory)

Physics

Terahertz-speed RAM and hard drives now possible through all-optical switching

(c) RANIL P. NANAYAKKARA

Animals

New tarantula species discovered in Sri Lanka is huge

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Discoveries

Antimatter excess in space hints of tangible evidence of dark matter

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Health

Brain scan shows key differences in mental disorders

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Robotics

Robot swarms hint towards the future

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Animals

Gecko clinging ability on wet surfaces might inspire water-resistant adhesive tape

A cagelike cloak surrounds a plastic sphere in an echo-free chamber. The cloak shielded the sphere from detection at a particular sound frequency, the first time a three-dimensional object has been cloaked from sound waves. Credit: L. Sanchis et al

Physics

Sound cloak devised that works for 3-D objects

Health

Health habits influence how much we shrink with age

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