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• Hermit crabs socialize to evict their neighbors
• Technology helping to crack oldest undeciphered writing system
• Laser spotlight reveals machine 'climbing' DNA

Hermit crabs socialize to evict their neighbors Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:51 AM PDT Social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a biologist has found that the terrestrial hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to kick another crab out of its shell and move into a larger home.

Technology helping to crack oldest undeciphered writing system Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:12 AM PDT New technology has allowed researchers to come closer than ever to cracking the world's oldest undeciphered writing system. Researchers in the UK have developed a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Ancient Documentary Artefacts to capture images of some of the world's most important historical documents. Recently this system was used on objects held in the vaults of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Laser spotlight reveals machine 'climbing' DNA Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:07 AM PDT New imaging technology has revealed how the molecular machines that remodel genetic material inside cells 'grab onto' DNA like a rock climber looking for a handhold.

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