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• A 'movie' of ultrafast rotating molecules at a hundred billion per second
• Early exposure to cat urine makes mice less likely to escape from cats
• 'Ghost': Technology that leaps out of the screen
• Romeo and Juliet roles for banded mongooses
• Bioprinted 'play dough' capable of cell and protein transfer
• Seafaring spiders depend on their 'sails' and 'anchors'

A 'movie' of ultrafast rotating molecules at a hundred billion per second Posted: 03 Jul 2015 12:02 PM PDT Can you imagine how subnano-scale molecules make an ultrafast rotation at a hundred billion per second? Do the ultrafast rotating subnano-scale molecules show a wave-like nature rather than particle-like behavior? Scientists took sequential 'snapshots' of ultrafast unidirectionally rotating molecules at a hundred billion per second to see for themselves.

Early exposure to cat urine makes mice less likely to escape from cats Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:22 AM PDT Mice that are exposed to the powerful smell of cat urine early in life do not escape from cats later in life. Researchers have discovered that mice that smell cat urine early in life, do not avoid the same odor, and therefore do not escape from their feline predators, later in life.

'Ghost': Technology that leaps out of the screen Posted: 03 Jul 2015 04:27 AM PDT Exciting new technologies, which allow users to change the shape of displays with their hands, promise to revolutionize the way we interact with smartphones, laptops and computers. Imagine pulling objects and data out of the screen and playing with these in mid-air. Today we live in a world of flat-screen displays we use all day – whether it's the computer in the office, a smartphone on the train home, the TV or iPad on the couch in the evening. The world we live in is not flat, though; it's made of hills and valleys, people and objects. Imagine if we could use our fingertips to manipulate the display and drag features out of it into our 3D world.

Romeo and Juliet roles for banded mongooses Posted: 03 Jul 2015 04:26 AM PDT Female banded mongooses risk their lives to mate with rivals during pack 'warfare' and both males and females have also learned to discriminate between relatives and non-relatives to avoid inbreeding even when mating within their own social group.

Bioprinted 'play dough' capable of cell and protein transfer Posted: 03 Jul 2015 04:26 AM PDT Scientists have developed a new technique allowing the bioprinting at ambient temperatures of a strong paste similar to 'play dough' capable of incorporating protein-releasing microspheres. The scientists demonstrated that the bioprinted material, in the form of a micro-particle paste capable of being injected via a syringe, could sustain stresses and strains similar to cancellous bone -- the 'spongy' bone tissue typically found at the end of long bones.

Seafaring spiders depend on their 'sails' and 'anchors' Posted: 03 Jul 2015 04:26 AM PDT Spiders travel across water like ships, using their legs as sails and their silk as an anchor, according to new research. The study helps explain how spiders are able to migrate across vast distances and why they are quick to colonize new areas.

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