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• Bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres
• First fully warm-blooded fish: The opah or moonfish
• Researchers hone technique for finding signs of life on the Red Planet
• Do flies have fear (or something like it)?
• Three perspectives on 'The Dress'
• Comet Wild 2: A window into the birth of the solar system?
• Those who believe in pure evil support more harsh criminal punishments, study finds
• Left-handed cosmic magnetic field could explain missing antimatter

Bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres Posted: 14 May 2015 12:07 PM PDT The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are better resolved in a image recently taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The images were taken from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers).

First fully warm-blooded fish: The opah or moonfish Posted: 14 May 2015 11:29 AM PDT New research has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body much like mammals and birds, giving it a competitive advantage in the cold ocean depths.

Researchers hone technique for finding signs of life on the Red Planet Posted: 14 May 2015 10:29 AM PDT Astrobiologists want to improve the way unmanned Mars probes detect condensed aromatic carbon, thought to be a chemical signature of astrobiology.

Do flies have fear (or something like it)? Posted: 14 May 2015 10:29 AM PDT A fruit fly starts buzzing around food at a picnic, so you wave your hand over the insect and shoo it away. But when the insect flees the scene, is it doing so because it is actually afraid? Using fruit flies to study the basic components of emotion, a new study reports that a fly's response to a shadowy overhead stimulus might be analogous to a negative emotional state such as fear.

Three perspectives on 'The Dress' Posted: 14 May 2015 10:29 AM PDT When you look at this photograph, what colors are the dress? Some see blue and black stripes, others see white and gold stripes. This striking variation took the internet by storm in February; now Current Biology is publishing three short papers on why the image is seen differently by different observers, and what this tells us about the complicated workings of color perception.

Comet Wild 2: A window into the birth of the solar system? Posted: 14 May 2015 06:58 AM PDT Scientists have investigated the oxygen isotope and mineral composition of the comet dust returned from Wild 2. The team discovered an unexpected combination of material that has deepened the mystery of Wild 2's past.

Those who believe in pure evil support more harsh criminal punishments, study finds Posted: 14 May 2015 06:52 AM PDT People who believe in pure evil are more likely support sentences such as life in prison without parole and the death penalty for criminals, a psychology study finds. The researchers added that it's likely that life experience more than religion that influences a belief in pure evil. When investigating whether a religious upbringing was linked to a belief in pure evil, researchers found that people's belief in pure evil didn't necessitate a belief in pure good and vice versa.

Left-handed cosmic magnetic field could explain missing antimatter Posted: 14 May 2015 05:56 AM PDT The discovery of a 'left-handed' magnetic field that pervades the universe could help explain a long standing mystery -- the absence of cosmic antimatter.

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