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• Supercomputer model shows planet making waves in nearby debris disk
• Earth's daily rotation period encoded in an atomic-level protein structure
• Backward-moving glacier helps scientists explain glacial earthquakes
• Songbirds have a thing for patterns
• Breakthrough graphene production could trigger revolution in artificial skin development
• Giant galaxy is still growing
• New conductive ink for electronic apparel
• New Sesotho-named dinosaur from South Africa
• Chameleon-like clothing: World's first full-color, flexible, skin-like display

Supercomputer model shows planet making waves in nearby debris disk Posted: 25 Jun 2015 01:14 PM PDT A new supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that causes collisions among the orbiting debris. Patterns in the collisions and the resulting dust appear to account for many observed features that previous research has been unable to fully explain.

Earth's daily rotation period encoded in an atomic-level protein structure Posted: 25 Jun 2015 11:52 AM PDT Scientists have demonstrated that Earth's daily rotation period (24 hours) is encoded in the KaiC protein at the atomic level, a small, 10 nm-diameter biomolecule expressed in cyanobacterial cells.The results of this joint research will help elucidate a longstanding question in chronobiology: How is the circadian period of biological clocks determined?

Backward-moving glacier helps scientists explain glacial earthquakes Posted: 25 Jun 2015 11:39 AM PDT The relentless flow of a glacier may seem unstoppable, but a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and the U.S. has shown that during some calving events -- when an iceberg breaks off into the ocean -- the glacier moves rapidly backward and downward, causing the characteristic glacial earthquakes which until now have been poorly understood.

Songbirds have a thing for patterns Posted: 25 Jun 2015 10:09 AM PDT You might think that young children would first learn to recognize sounds and then learn how those categories of sounds fit together into words. But that isn't how it works. Rather, kids learn sounds and words at the same time. Now, researchers present evidence from European starlings showing that songbirds learn their songs in much the same way.

Breakthrough graphene production could trigger revolution in artificial skin development Posted: 25 Jun 2015 08:20 AM PDT A pioneering new technique to produce high-quality, low cost graphene could pave the way for the development of the first truly flexible 'electronic skin,' that could be used in robots.

Giant galaxy is still growing Posted: 25 Jun 2015 05:09 AM PDT The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy over the last billion years. For the first time a team of astronomers has been able to track the motions of 300 glowing planetary nebulae to find clear evidence of this event and also found evidence of excess light coming from the remains of the totally disrupted victim.

New conductive ink for electronic apparel Posted: 25 Jun 2015 05:09 AM PDT Researchers have developed a new ink that can be printed on textiles in a single step to form highly conductive and stretchable connections. This new functional ink will enable electronic apparel such as sportswear and underwear incorporating sensing devices for measuring a range of biological indicators such as heart rate and muscle contraction.

New Sesotho-named dinosaur from South Africa Posted: 24 Jun 2015 07:59 AM PDT South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200-million-year-old dinosaur from South Africa hidden for decades among the largest fossil collection in South Africa.

Chameleon-like clothing: World's first full-color, flexible, skin-like display Posted: 24 Jun 2015 07:02 AM PDT Inspired by octopuses and chameleons, researchers have developed technique for using a metallic nanostructure to create the first full-color, flexible display so thin it could be used to create color-changing clothing.

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