Researchers have demonstrated a new metal matrix composite that is so light that it can float on water. A boat made of such composites will not sink despite damage to …read more Source:: Science
Day: May 12, 2015
Male hormones help lemur females rule
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•Lemur girls behave more like the guys, thanks to a little testosterone, finds a new study. When it comes to conventional gender roles, lemurs — distant primate cousins of ours …read more Source:: Science
Breakthrough in tinnitus research could lead to testable model
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•A major breakthrough has been made that provides new insights into how tinnitus, and the often co-occurring hyperacusis, might develop and be sustained. Tinnitus is largely a mystery, a phantom …read more Source:: Science
Weather forecasts made for planets beyond our solar system
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•Using sensitive observations from the Kepler space telescope, astronomers have uncovered evidence of daily weather cycles on six extra-solar planets seen to exhibit different phases. Such phase variations occur as …read more Source:: Science
Europa’s mystery dark material could be sea salt, NASA research reveals
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•NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation. The presence …read more Source:: Science
Controlling swarms of cooperative robots with light and a single finger
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•Using a smart tablet and a red beam of light, researchers have created a system that allows people to control a fleet of robots with the swipe of a finger. …read more Source:: Science
Tweaking the beak: Retracing the bird’s beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory
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•Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. …read more Source:: Science
Nano memory cell can mimic the brain’s long-term memory
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•Researchers have mimicked the way the human brain processes information with the development of an electronic long-term memory cell. …read more Source:: Science
Merck KGaA, Threshold win fast track for pancreatic cancer drug
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•FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Merck KGaA said that experimental cancer drug evofosfamide, which it is jointly developing with Threshold Pharmaceuticals, won fast track status for the treatment of advanced pancreatic …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Children exposed to multiple languages may be better natural communicators
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•Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study finds. …read more Source:: Science