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• Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets
• Calls vs. balls: Monkeys with more impressive roars produce less sperm
• Vibrations tell bees where mates are from
• These social bees farm and eat fungus or die
• Virtual K-pop dance teacher developed to make dance learning easier
• Hubble spies Big Bang frontiers
• Robot adapts voice and gestures just to get attention from you
• Subliminal effect of facial color on fearful faces
• Experiment tests Einstein's 'God does not play dice' with quantum 'dice'
• Learning from ants how to build transportation networks

Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets Posted: 22 Oct 2015 01:12 PM PDT Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars. Using a technique called asteroseismology, which uses sound waves generated by turbulence on the surface of stars to determine their inner properties, the scientists found that the fusion-powered cores of red giants, stars that are evolved versions of our sun, are strongly magnetized. The findings will help astronomers better understand the evolution of stars.

Calls vs. balls: Monkeys with more impressive roars produce less sperm Posted: 22 Oct 2015 09:45 AM PDT Evolutionary 'trade-off' between size of throat and testes discovered in howler monkeys furthers Darwin's theory of sexual selection and corresponds to mating systems: males with larger throats often have exclusive access to females, while those with larger testes share mates.

Vibrations tell bees where mates are from Posted: 22 Oct 2015 09:43 AM PDT In choosing among potential suitors, red mason bee females pay attention to the specific way in which males of the species vibrate their bodies. Now, researchers have found that those vibrations carry important information about where their potential mates are from.

These social bees farm and eat fungus or die Posted: 22 Oct 2015 09:43 AM PDT Researchers have discovered that a social, stingless bee from Brazil feeds its larvae on a special type of fungus grown in the nest. Without it, very few young survive.

Virtual K-pop dance teacher developed to make dance learning easier Posted: 22 Oct 2015 07:38 AM PDT A virtual dance teacher has been developed that can make learning famous K-Pop dances easier at home by precisely tracking 3-D body joints. The developers successfully created the precise 3-D tracking of 15 human body joints using big data of the human body and the relational information among human body joints.

Hubble spies Big Bang frontiers Posted: 22 Oct 2015 07:35 AM PDT Observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble. The team has determined, for the first time with some confidence, that these small galaxies were vital to creating the Universe that we see today.

Robot adapts voice and gestures just to get attention from you Posted: 22 Oct 2015 07:35 AM PDT Researchers have developed Talking-Ally, the novel robot that dynamically generate appropriate utterance and gestures based on the person's attention as indicated by his or her actions. The experiments show that this new communicational approach significantly enhances the attention engagement with interactive user.

Subliminal effect of facial color on fearful faces Posted: 22 Oct 2015 07:35 AM PDT Facial color affects early stage of subliminal processing of facial expression, say researchers, providing the first neurophysiological evidence showing the effects of facial color on emotional expression perception. This finding may contribute to promoting emotional interaction using avatars in virtual reality-world.

Experiment tests Einstein's 'God does not play dice' with quantum 'dice' Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:10 PM PDT Random number generators played a critical role in an historic experiment. The experiment gives the strongest refutation to date of Albert Einstein's principle of 'local realism,' which says that the universe obeys laws, not chance, and that there is no communication faster than light.

Learning from ants how to build transportation networks Posted: 20 Oct 2015 04:23 PM PDT Using mathematical modeling and field data, researchers have found the basic rules that allow ants to build efficient and low cost transport networks without discarding robustness.

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