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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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Environmental Issues

World’s water streams affected by pharmaceutical pollution

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Health

The biological transistor is finally here opening a new age of computing

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Animals

Namibian fairy circles mystery finally solved: they’re made by termites

Geobacter sulfurreducens conducts electricity through its very long and thin filaments acting like a sort of biological nanowires. (c) University of Massachusetts Amherst

Biology

Bacteria conducts electricity just like a metal through bio-nanowires

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Renewable Energy

Quantum dots with nanowires yield greater solar cell efficiency

Environmental Issues

About the creation of biofuel using CO2 from the atmosphere…

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Health

Virtual game for the blind help them navigate their surroundings

Inventions

New invisibility cloak takes things to the next level

Assembling a mating type gene in Tetrahymena. Ribbons show how each incomplete MTB gene (color coded) is joined to the end of the only complete gene (III, orange). Credit: Michael J. Lawson

Biology

Organism with six sexes picks gender like a game of roulette

Scientists inspecting the compressor of the Vulcan Petawatt laser.

Discoveries

High power laser hallows atom from the inside out

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Diseases

Living alone increases risk of death

Mind & Brain

MRI shows a decrease in volume in certain brain regions of professional fighters

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Discoveries

Speed of light may fluctuate in vacuum, controversial studies suggest

The Takahe is a flightless bird that was previously thought to be extinct in New Zealand until it was discovered in the 1950s in a remote region of the South Island.(c) Tim Blackburn

Animals

Humans caused ancient Pacific bird extinction that killed 10% of world bird population

Brown-polar-bear hybrids at Germany’s Osnabrück Zoo. (c) Corradox/Wikimedia Commons

Animals

Animal hybridization accelerated by climate change

The figure shows that the sun's rays are drawn into a nanowire, which stands on a substrate. At a given wavelength the sunlight is concentrated up to 15 times. Consequently, there is great potential in using nanowires in the development of future solar cells. (credit: Niels Bohr Institute)

Renewable Energy

Nanowires break solar cell cell theoretical maximum efficiency and usher in a new era of solar power

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