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- Extremely active rats become lazy when they artificially receive 'runners' high'
- Understanding others' thoughts enables young kids to lie
- Hog-nose rat discovered
- Back to the future: Science fiction turns science fact
- New fossils intensify mystery of short-lived, toothy mammal found in ancient North Pacific
- Laser-wielding physicists seize control of atoms' behavior
- Magnetic contraption tricks migrating songbirds into changing direction
| Extremely active rats become lazy when they artificially receive 'runners' high' Posted: 06 Oct 2015 04:20 PM PDT Researchers have found that activating the pleasure and reward receptors in the brain could provide the 'reward' of dangerous drugs without having to consume those drugs. |
| Understanding others' thoughts enables young kids to lie Posted: 06 Oct 2015 12:03 PM PDT Kids who are taught to reason about the mental states of others are more likely to use deception to win a reward, according to new research. |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2015 09:38 AM PDT A new genus and species has been discovered on a remote, mountainous island in Indonesia. This new discovery is the third new genus described by this group of scientists since 2012, and identifies a rodent with features never seen by the scientific community before. |
| Back to the future: Science fiction turns science fact Posted: 06 Oct 2015 09:37 AM PDT Do you remember the 3-D-display from 'Back to the Future 2'? On back to the future day (Oct. 21) these displays may not yet be seen in our streets as the movie predicted, but the basic science is there. Researchers are now presenting a prototype for 3-D displays that work without 3-D glasses. |
| New fossils intensify mystery of short-lived, toothy mammal found in ancient North Pacific Posted: 06 Oct 2015 07:27 AM PDT New fossils from the Aleutian Islands intensify the mystery surrounding a toothy, hippopotamus-sized mammal unique to the North Pacific. The oddball creature suction-fed shoreline vegetation, say paleontologists. The Unalaska Island animal is a new genus and species of Desmostylia. The only major order of marine mammals to go wholly extinct, Desmostylia survived a geologic blink -- only 23 million years, from 33 million to 10 million years ago. |
| Laser-wielding physicists seize control of atoms' behavior Posted: 05 Oct 2015 01:30 PM PDT Physicists have wondered in recent years if they could control how atoms interact using light. Now they know that they can, by demonstrating games of quantum billiards with unusual new rules. |
| Magnetic contraption tricks migrating songbirds into changing direction Posted: 05 Oct 2015 10:25 AM PDT When researchers captured Eurasian reed warblers along the Russian coast during their spring migrations and flew them 1,000 kilometers east to Zvenigorod, the birds weren't fazed; they simply re-oriented themselves toward their original destination. Now, the researchers who first demonstrated the birds' navigational skill are back with new evidence that reed warblers rely on a geomagnetic map to point them in the right direction. |
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