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- Marine bacteria to fight tough infections
- Bed bugs grow faster in groups
- Bugs, flowers inspire new cocktail curiosities
- When danger is in the eye of the beholder
Marine bacteria to fight tough infections Posted: 08 Jan 2014 09:43 PM PST Aggressive infections are a growing health problem all over the world. The development of resistant bacteria is rampant and, in the United States, resistant staphylococci cause more deaths than AIDS on an annual basis. Researchers are studying a new form of treatment based on marine bacteria. |
Bed bugs grow faster in groups Posted: 08 Jan 2014 09:41 PM PST Researchers found that bed bug nymphs developed 2.2 days faster than solitary nymphs -- a significant 7.3 percent difference. This study is the first ever to document the effects of aggregation on bed bug development. |
Bugs, flowers inspire new cocktail curiosities Posted: 07 Jan 2014 06:27 AM PST Your mother probably warned against playing with your food, but she may have neglected to mention playing with your drinks. Inspired by a love of experimental cuisine, researchers developed several bio-inspired edible cocktail novelties as part of graduate research. These devices take advantage of fluid-surface interactions first observed in nature to provide a fun science twist to fancy beverages. |
When danger is in the eye of the beholder Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:33 AM PST In a series of studies published over the past two years, the lab of an anthropologist has succeeded in fleshing out an unconscious mental mechanism that human beings use to gauge the threat posed by a potential adversary. The mechanism translates the magnitude of the threat into the same dimensions used by animals to size up their adversaries -- size and strength – even when these dimensions have no literal connection to the threat. |
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