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• Age doesn't dull damselfly sex
• Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets
• Better chocolate with microbes: Same yeast used in beer, wine and bread
• Old astronomic riddle on the way to be solved: Absorption of starlight in space
• The secret to the sea sapphire's colors -- and invisibility
• With teeth like that, this pre-dinosaur vegetarian was no push over
• Jupiter twin discovered around solar twin
• You need this hole in the head -- to be smart

Age doesn't dull damselfly sex Posted: 15 Jul 2015 06:22 PM PDT Aging damselflies never lose their libidos and are just as likely as younger competitors to mate, scientists report. Although the life of the azure damselfly is actually quite short--most insects in the study died within a week of arriving at the pond--the sex is constant, the authors explain.

Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets Posted: 15 Jul 2015 01:06 PM PDT Sibling suns -- made famous in the "Star Wars" scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset -- and the planets around them may be more common than we've thought, and astronomers are presenting new ideas on how to find them.

Better chocolate with microbes: Same yeast used in beer, wine and bread Posted: 15 Jul 2015 10:08 AM PDT For decades, researchers have worked to improve cacao fermentation by controlling the microbes involved. Now, to their surprise, a team of Belgian researchers has discovered that the same species of yeast used in production of beer, bread, and wine works particularly well in chocolate fermentation.

Old astronomic riddle on the way to be solved: Absorption of starlight in space Posted: 15 Jul 2015 10:07 AM PDT Scientists were able to identify for the first time a molecule responsible for the absorption of starlight in space: the positively charged Buckminsterfullerene, or so-called football molecule.

The secret to the sea sapphire's colors -- and invisibility Posted: 15 Jul 2015 09:24 AM PDT Sapphirina, or sea sapphire, has been called 'the most beautiful animal you've never seen,' and it could be one of the most magical. Some of the tiny, little-known copepods appear to flash in and out of brilliantly colored blue, violet or red existence. Now scientists are figuring out the trick to their hues and their invisibility. The findings could inspire the next generation of optical technologies.

With teeth like that, this pre-dinosaur vegetarian was no push over Posted: 15 Jul 2015 08:26 AM PDT Head-butting and canine display during male-male combat first appeared some 270 million years ago. This is what researchers found when they conducted an updated in-depth study of the herbivorous mammalian ancestor, Tiarajudens eccentricus, discovered four years ago.

Jupiter twin discovered around solar twin Posted: 15 Jul 2015 07:36 AM PDT So far, exoplanet surveys have been most sensitive to planetary systems that are populated in their inner regions by massive planets, down to a few times the mass of the Earth. This contrasts with our Solar System, where there are small rocky planets in the inner regions and gas giants like Jupiter farther out.

You need this hole in the head -- to be smart Posted: 15 Jul 2015 06:12 AM PDT Researchers have shown that intelligence in animal species can be estimated by the size of the holes in the skull through which the arteries pass.

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