Science & Technology
Science & Technology - Nov 11, 2010 13:50 - 0 Comments
Deaf adults have highly tuned vision
U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — Children born deaf are slower to react to objects in their peripheral vision than hearing people, but teens and adults who have been deaf since birth react faster than their hearing peers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 10, 2010 14:59 - 0 Comments
No explosion of skeletal animals
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — New research challenges the idea that a profusion of skeletal animals appeared on earth in a short burst beginning around 542 million years ago, during a time known as the “Cambrian Explosion.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 9, 2010 16:52 - 10 Comments
Does Darwin’s theory hold up?
NYU (US) — Charles Darwin’s theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history, according to a new paper. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 9, 2010 14:30 - 0 Comments
Fish offer lesson in movement
TULANE (US) — A computational model of a swimming fish offers important insight into the interaction of internal and external forces on locomotion. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 9, 2010 11:49 - 0 Comments
Neurons have minds of their own
STANFORD (US) — Neurons in the brain trigger physical movements in the body, but at times seem to fire in a crazy quilt pattern just before and during the movement. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 8, 2010 14:52 - 1 Comment
Do neutrinos come in four flavors?
U. MICHIGAN (US) — A Fermilab physics experiment suggests the existence of a new elementary particle, adding a possible new “flavor” to the three known flavors of neutrinos. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 8, 2010 12:13 - 0 Comments
Do sperm have commitment phobia?
U. MINNESOTA (US) — Germ cells, the cells that give rise to eggs and sperm, undergo a special form of cell division that commits them to their fates. But future sperm put it off much longer than future eggs do. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 5, 2010 13:57 - 3 Comments
Why nature thinks bigger is better
IOWA STATE (US) — In a new paper, a team of scientists sheds light on coarsening, the natural process during which “the big get bigger.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 5, 2010 11:23 - 1 Comment
Astronomers hit galactic pay dirt
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — The first images from the sky survey project Herschel-ATLAS have revealed a new way to locate cosmic zoom lens—a phenomenon that lets astronomers peer at far-away galaxies. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 4, 2010 13:33 - 4 Comments
Cornstarch shapes clay with precision
NYU (US) — A new method to shape solid materials—in this case, modeling clay—uses cornstarch as its main ingredient. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 4, 2010 11:23 - 0 Comments
Stone Age tools took brains, not brawn
EMORY (US) — It was a skilled brain—not trained hands—that allowed prehistoric toolmakers to make the leap from simple to sophisticated. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 16:20 - 1 Comment
Dead quasar ‘illuminates’ black holes
YALE (US) — An object discovered two years ago by an amateur astronomer is revealing surprising clues about the life cycle of black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 16:19 - 0 Comments
Cell membrane: Like cornstarch and water
U. OREGON (US) — It turns out that cell membranes behave a lot like water and cornstarch. At rest they are very fluid, but when quickly perturbed, they bounce back like rubber. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 15:41 - 2 Comments
3-D hologram moves in real-time
U. ARIZONA (US) — A new type of holographic telepresence allows the projection of a 3-D moving image without the need for 3-D glasses or other auxiliary devices. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 14:51 - 0 Comments
Sensor sniffs out shoe bombs
U. ILLINOIS (US) — A hard-to-detect chemical explosive used by convicted “shoe bomber” Richard Reid may now be easier to identify. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 13:24 - 3 Comments
Modified corn spreads the love around
U. MINNESOTA (US) — Transgenic corn’s resistance to pests benefits even corn that has not been genetically modified, according to new research. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 11:33 - 0 Comments
Galaxy clusters emerge from shadows
RUTGERS (US) — Astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 2, 2010 16:50 - 0 Comments
Math model predicts cell behavior
NYU (US) — Researchers have developed an algebraic model of DNA “hybridization,” a process central to most biotechnology devices that monitor changes in cell’s gene expression or characterize a cell’s genome. (more…)
