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- Mantis shrimp inspires new body armor, football helmet design
- Fossil of huge 'walking' bat discovered in New Zealand
- Moon engulfed in permanent, lopsided dust cloud
- Astronomers create array of Earth-like planet models
- Network model for tracking Twitter memes sheds light on information spreading in the brain
- 400,000-year-old dental tartar provides earliest evidence of humanmade pollution
- Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more
- Seeing where stars collide
- Best observational evidence of first generation stars in the universe
- Why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface
| Mantis shrimp inspires new body armor, football helmet design Posted: 17 Jun 2015 11:45 AM PDT The mantis shrimp is able to repeatedly pummel the shells of prey using a hammer-like appendage that can withstand rapid-fire blows by neutralizing certain frequencies of 'shear waves,' according to new research. Using this information, researchers suggest that these shrimp may therefore be a model to inspire new body armor and even football helmet design.  |
| Fossil of huge 'walking' bat discovered in New Zealand Posted: 17 Jun 2015 11:44 AM PDT Fossilized remains of a new bat species, which lived 16 million years ago, walked on four limbs and was three times larger than today's average bat, have been discovered in New Zealand.  |
| Moon engulfed in permanent, lopsided dust cloud Posted: 17 Jun 2015 10:50 AM PDT The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study.  |
| Astronomers create array of Earth-like planet models Posted: 17 Jun 2015 10:46 AM PDT To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, astronomers have developed computer models that examine how ultraviolet radiation from other planets' nearby suns may affect those worlds.  |
| Network model for tracking Twitter memes sheds light on information spreading in the brain Posted: 17 Jun 2015 10:46 AM PDT An international team of researchers is using data mapping methods created to track the spread of information on social networks to trace its dissemination across a surprisingly different system: the human brain.  |
| 400,000-year-old dental tartar provides earliest evidence of humanmade pollution Posted: 17 Jun 2015 09:57 AM PDT Researchers have uncovered evidence of food and potential respiratory irritants entrapped in the dental tartar of 400,000-year-old teeth at Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv, the site of many major discoveries from the late Lower Paleolithic period. The research provides direct evidence of what early Palaeolithic people ate and the quality of the air they breathed inside Qesem Cave.  |
| Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more Posted: 17 Jun 2015 07:45 AM PDT Researchers created and tested a custom library of inkjet-printable, functional silk inks doped with bioactive components such as antibiotics, enzymes, nanoparticles, and growth factors. The natural silk polymer stabilized the agents over time and enabled printing in varied mechanically robust formats.  |
| Posted: 17 Jun 2015 06:24 AM PDT Using the advanced adaptive optics system GeMS, on the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have imaged a beautiful stellar jewel-box -- a tightly packed cluster of stars that is one of the few places in our galaxy where astronomers think stars can actually collide.  |
| Best observational evidence of first generation stars in the universe Posted: 17 Jun 2015 06:24 AM PDT Astronomers have discovered the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and found strong evidence that first generation of stars lurk within it. These previously theoretical objects were the creators of the elements necessary to forge the stars around us today, the planets that orbit them, and life as we know it. The newly found galaxy is three times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy known up to now.  |
| Why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface Posted: 17 Jun 2015 06:17 AM PDT How can the temperature of the Sun's atmosphere be as high as 1 million degrees Celsius when its surface temperature is only around 6000°C? By simulating the evolution of part of the Sun's interior and exterior, researchers have identified the mechanisms that provide sufficient energy to heat the solar atmosphere. A layer beneath the Sun's surface, acting as a pan of boiling water, is thought to generate a small-scale magnetic field as an energy reserve which, once it emerges from the star, heats the successive layers of the solar atmosphere via networks of mangrove-like magnetic roots and branches.  |
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