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- One smart egg: Birds sense day length and change development
- Data storage of tomorrow: Ferroelectricity on the nanoscale
- Deaf brain processes touch differently: Lacking sound input, the primary auditory cortex 'feels' touch
- The old primates' club: Even male monkeys ride their fathers' coattails to success
- New parasitic coral reef crustacean named after late reggae performer Bob Marley
- Hubble unmasks ghost galaxies
- Toward achieving one million times increase in computing efficiency
- New biofuel process dramatically improves energy recovery, and uses agricultural waste
- Climate change may lead to fewer but more violent thunderstorms
- Searching genomic data faster: Biologists' capacity for generating genomic data is increasing more rapidly than computing power
- Metamolecules that switch handedness at light-speed: Optically switchable chiral terahertz metamolecules developed
- Rising carbon dioxide in atmosphere also speeds carbon loss from forest soils
- Greater diet-induced obesity in rats consuming sugar solution during the inactive period
| One smart egg: Birds sense day length and change development Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:54 PM PDT This is one smart egg. Talk about adjusting your internal clock. New research shows that some chicks can sense day length, even while they are still in the egg, which in turn, affects how they develop. |
| Data storage of tomorrow: Ferroelectricity on the nanoscale Posted: 10 Jul 2012 02:21 PM PDT Scientists have brought some clarity to the here-to-fore confusing physics of ferroelectric nanomaterials, pointing the way to multi-terabyte-per-square-inch of non-volatile computer memory chips. |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2012 02:17 PM PDT People who are born deaf process the sense of touch differently than people who are born with normal hearing, according to new research. The finding reveals how the early loss of a sense -- in this case hearing -- affects brain development. |
| The old primates' club: Even male monkeys ride their fathers' coattails to success Posted: 10 Jul 2012 01:33 PM PDT The significant advantages enjoyed by the male offspring of long-reigning alpha male capuchin monkeys evoke the good old boys' network enjoyed by human males, suggests a new study by a primatologist. |
| New parasitic coral reef crustacean named after late reggae performer Bob Marley Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:04 PM PDT President Barack Obama has one. Comedian Stephen Colbert has one. Elvis Presley has one. Even computer software magnate Bill Gates has one. And now, Bob Marley -- the late popular Jamaican singer and guitarist -- also has one. So what is it that each of these luminaries have? The answer: they each have a biological species that has been named after them. |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2012 10:31 AM PDT Astronomers are studying some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. These galaxies are fossils of the early Universe: They have barely changed for 13 billion years. The discovery could help explain the so-called "missing satellite" problem, where only a handful of satellite galaxies have been found around the Milky Way, against the thousands that are predicted by theories. |
| Toward achieving one million times increase in computing efficiency Posted: 10 Jul 2012 10:30 AM PDT Researchers have created an entirely new family of logic circuits based on magnetic semiconductor devices. The advance could lead to logic circuits up to one million times more power-efficient than today's. |
| New biofuel process dramatically improves energy recovery, and uses agricultural waste Posted: 10 Jul 2012 10:30 AM PDT A new biofuel production process produces energy more than 20 times higher than existing methods. The results showcase a novel way to use microbes to produce biofuel and hydrogen, all while consuming agricultural wastes. |
| Climate change may lead to fewer but more violent thunderstorms Posted: 10 Jul 2012 10:30 AM PDT Scientists are working hard to identify just how climate change will impact weather around the world. Now researcher says that, if temperatures continue to rise, Earth can expect a significant increase in the violence of thunderstorms. |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2012 10:29 AM PDT In 2001, the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics announced that after 10 years of work at a cost of some $400 million, they had completed a draft sequence of the human genome. Today, sequencing a human genome is something that a single researcher can do in a couple of weeks for less than $10,000. Since 2002, the rate at which genomes can be sequenced has been doubling every four months or so, whereas computing power doubles only every 18 months. Now a new algorithm drastically reduces the time it takes to find a particular gene sequence in a database of genomes. |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:02 AM PDT Scientists have created the first artificial molecules whose chirality can be rapidly switched from a right-handed to a left-handed orientation with a beam of light. This holds potentially huge possibilities for the application of terahertz technologies across a wide range of fields, including biomedical research, homeland security and ultrahigh-speed communications. |
| Rising carbon dioxide in atmosphere also speeds carbon loss from forest soils Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide accelerate carbon cycling and soil carbon loss in forests, biologists have found. The new evidence supports an emerging view that although forests remove a substantial amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, much of the carbon is being stored in living woody biomass rather than as dead organic matter in soils. |
| Greater diet-induced obesity in rats consuming sugar solution during the inactive period Posted: 10 Jul 2012 06:38 AM PDT New research suggests that not only the amount and type of food eaten but the time of day it is eaten is important in contributing to obesity. |
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