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- Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study
- How electricity helps spider webs snatch prey and pollutants
- Starchy food led to rotten teeth in ancient hunter-gatherers
- Dance and virtual reality: A promising treatment for urinary incontinence in elderly women
- Debunking the sixth sense
- Younger people have 'high definition' memories
- Do cultural differences determine outcome of our activities?
- And that is how the desert locust lost its memory
- Microbes swap for tiny goods in minuscule markets: Microbes buy low, sell high
| Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study Posted: 14 Jan 2014 10:07 AM PST The joke's on a generation of human-sexuality researchers: Adolescent pranksters responding to the widely cited National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the mid-1990s may have faked nonheterosexuality. |
| How electricity helps spider webs snatch prey and pollutants Posted: 14 Jan 2014 08:33 AM PST Spider webs actively spring towards prey thanks to electrically-conductive glue spread across their surface, scientists have discovered. The researchers found that the electrostatic properties of the glue that coats spider webs causes them to reach out to grab all charged particles, from pollen and pollutants to flying insects. They also showed that the glue spirals can distort Earth's electric field within a few millimetres of the web, which may enable insects to spot the webs with their antennae 'e-sensors'. |
| Starchy food led to rotten teeth in ancient hunter-gatherers Posted: 14 Jan 2014 08:27 AM PST A diet rich in starchy foods may have led to high rates of tooth decay in ancient hunter-gatherers, according to a new study that challenges the long-held view that dental disease was linked to the advent of farming. The research shows widespread tooth decay occurred in a hunter-gathering society in Morocco several thousand years before the dawn of agriculture. |
| Dance and virtual reality: A promising treatment for urinary incontinence in elderly women Posted: 14 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST Virtual reality, dance and fun are not the first things that come to mind when we think of treating urinary incontinence in senior women. However, these concepts were the foundations of a promising study . |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:21 AM PST New research has helped debunk the common belief that a sixth sense, also known as extrasensory perception, exists. |
| Younger people have 'high definition' memories Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:18 AM PST It's not that younger people are able to remember more than older people. Their memories seem better because they are able to retrieve them in higher definition. So says a researcher, in a study that sheds light on how differences in the behavioral and neural activity of younger and older adults influence the different generations' ability to store and recall memories. |
| Do cultural differences determine outcome of our activities? Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:17 AM PST A generally held assumption in various academic disciplines is that the way people perform various everyday activities – walking, swimming, carrying loads, etc. – is culturally determined. But, the question remains: do these cultural characteristics, when they affect various motor skills, also determine the results of people's efforts? |
| And that is how the desert locust lost its memory Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:08 AM PST The desert locust (a type of grasshopper), much like Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, goes from being an innocuous solitary-living individual to become a voracious gregarious animal that destroys everything on its path (and back). These two very different "personas" are remarkable adaptations of a single genome to distinct environments. But apparently, this flexibility is even more impressive, as they reveal that the locust' solitarious and gregarious forms also have different memory and learning abilities to suit the needs of the two life stages. |
| Microbes swap for tiny goods in minuscule markets: Microbes buy low, sell high Posted: 13 Jan 2014 12:26 PM PST Microbes set up their own markets, comparing bids for commodities, hoarding to obtain a better price, and generally behaving in ways more commonly associated with Wall Street than the microscopic world. This has led an international team of scientists to ask which, if any, market features are specific to cognitive agents. |
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