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- Easter Island drug raises cognition throughout life span in mice
- Scientists urge new approaches to plant research
- Clothing the body electric: Cotton T-shirt fabric can store electricity, maybe keep your cell phone charged
- Scientists help create an extra second of summer: Leap second to be added on July 1, 2012
- Welsh reindeer is Britain's oldest rock art, U-series dating suggests
- How to bend it like Beckham: Physics students calculate perfect soccer ball kicking formula
| Easter Island drug raises cognition throughout life span in mice Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:19 PM PDT Rapamycin, a compound first isolated from soil on Easter Island, enhanced learning and memory in a study of young, middle-aged and older mice. The findings are from the School of Medicine and Barshop Institute at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. |
| Scientists urge new approaches to plant research Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:18 PM PDT If humans are to survive as a species, we must turn more to plants for any number of valuable lessons, experts say. |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:15 PM PDT The fabric in a cotton T-shirt was converted into a material that can store electricity. A flexible source of electrical power made from this kind of material might one day be able to charge your cell phone, or any number of other mobile electronic devices. |
| Scientists help create an extra second of summer: Leap second to be added on July 1, 2012 Posted: 29 Jun 2012 11:26 AM PDT Scientists will be adding a leap second at 00:59 BST on July 1 to its atomic clocks, to ensure UK time remains synchronized with international time. |
| Welsh reindeer is Britain's oldest rock art, U-series dating suggests Posted: 29 Jun 2012 11:25 AM PDT A reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave in South Wales has been found to date from at least 14,505 years ago -- making it the oldest known rock art in the British Isles. |
| How to bend it like Beckham: Physics students calculate perfect soccer ball kicking formula Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:03 AM PDT Now that David Beckham won't be appearing at the London 2012 Olympics, other members of Team GB wanting to brush up on their free-kicks can rest easy. A physics students has figured out the optimum way of kicking a soccer ball in order to make it bend into the goal. The ex-England captain's curling free-kicks became legendary, and even inspired the title of the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham. |
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