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• That smartphone is giving your thumbs superpowers
• Hunt for Big Bang particles offering clues to the origin of the universe
• Newly discovered assassin bug was incognito, but now it's incognita
• Intelligent façades generating electricity, heat and algae biomass

That smartphone is giving your thumbs superpowers Posted: 23 Dec 2014 09:22 AM PST When people spend time interacting with their smartphones via touchscreen, it actually changes the way their thumbs and brains work together, according to a new report. More touchscreen use in the recent past translates directly into greater brain activity when the thumbs and other fingertips are touched, the study shows.

Hunt for Big Bang particles offering clues to the origin of the universe Posted: 23 Dec 2014 08:38 AM PST Billions upon billions of neutrinos speed harmlessly through everyone's body every moment of the day, according to cosmologists. The bulk of these subatomic particles are believed to come straight from the Big Bang, rather than from the sun or other sources. Experimental confirmation of this belief could yield seminal insights into the early universe and the physics of neutrinos. But how do you interrogate something so elusive that it could zip through a barrier of iron a light-year thick as if it were empty space?

Newly discovered assassin bug was incognito, but now it's incognita Posted: 23 Dec 2014 05:39 AM PST A North American assassin bug that has remained hidden for over 100 years has been determined to be a new species. The new bug, Sinea incognita, is described in a new article.

Intelligent façades generating electricity, heat and algae biomass Posted: 22 Dec 2014 05:43 AM PST Windows that change their light permeability at the touch of a button, façades whose color can be changed according to the sunlight, façades and window parts in which transparent photovoltaic modules are integrated or in which microalgae are being bred to provide the house with its own biofuel: This is what the buildings of the future could feature, or at least something similar, experts say.

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