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- 'Sunscreen' layer detected on distant planet
- New drug triggers tissue regeneration: Faster regrowth and healing of damaged tissues
- How the hawkmoth sees, hovers and tracks flowers in the dark
- Variable surfaces: Smooth or bumpy on demand
- A cuckoo finch in sheep's clothing
- Wild mongooses avoid inbreeding with unusual reproductive strategy
- Pigeon 'chain of command' aids navigation
- Scientists downsize the giant 'Dreadnoughtus' dinosaur
- Seven reasons to eat insects
| 'Sunscreen' layer detected on distant planet Posted: 11 Jun 2015 11:44 AM PDT NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b.  |
| New drug triggers tissue regeneration: Faster regrowth and healing of damaged tissues Posted: 11 Jun 2015 11:44 AM PDT The concept sounds like the stuff of science fiction: take a pill, and new tissues grow to replace damaged ones. Researchers have now announced steps toward turning this idea into reality. They have detailed how a new drug repaired damage to the colon, liver and bone marrow in animal models -- even saving mice who would have died in a bone marrow transplantation model.  |
| How the hawkmoth sees, hovers and tracks flowers in the dark Posted: 11 Jun 2015 11:42 AM PDT Using high-speed infrared cameras and robotic flowers, scientists have learned how the hawkmoth juggles the complex sensing and control challenges of seeing in the dark, hovering in mid-air and tracking moving flowers. The work shows that the creatures can slow their brains to improve vision under low-light conditions -- while continuing to perform demanding tasks.  |
| Variable surfaces: Smooth or bumpy on demand Posted: 11 Jun 2015 08:44 AM PDT Scientists have developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, or ridged or bumpy, or even to have complex patterns that could be used to guide fluids.  |
| A cuckoo finch in sheep's clothing Posted: 11 Jun 2015 06:13 AM PDT Cuckoo finches in Africa have adopted a unique disguise to help them lay their eggs in other birds' nests, biologists have found.  |
| Wild mongooses avoid inbreeding with unusual reproductive strategy Posted: 11 Jun 2015 05:21 AM PDT Researchers studying banded mongooses in Uganda have discovered that these small mammals are able to discriminate between relatives and non-relatives to avoid inbreeding.  |
| Pigeon 'chain of command' aids navigation Posted: 09 Jun 2015 06:30 PM PDT Having a hierarchical social structure with just a few well-connected leaders enables pigeon flocks to navigate more accurately on the wing, new research shows.  |
| Scientists downsize the giant 'Dreadnoughtus' dinosaur Posted: 09 Jun 2015 06:30 PM PDT Scientists have shown that the most complete giant sauropod dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus, discovered by palaeontologists in South America in 2014, was not as large as previously thought.  |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2015 09:43 AM PDT Eating bugs may not seem appetizing, but according to experts, insects are a sustainable alternative protein source with nutritional benefits that can't be ignored.  |
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