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- Bright prospects: Repairing neurons with light
- Eating to impress: Men eat more food when dining with women
- What's in a name? More than you think...
- Methane feeds subsea ice mounds off Siberia
- Flexo-electric nanomaterial created
| Bright prospects: Repairing neurons with light Posted: 17 Nov 2015 08:25 AM PST Scientists have succeeded in stimulating the regeneration of injured neurons in living fish by the use of light. To this end, they employed so-called Optogenetics, i.e. light inducible protein activation. |
| Eating to impress: Men eat more food when dining with women Posted: 17 Nov 2015 08:20 AM PST If you're a man, how much you eat may have more to do with the gender of your dining companions than your appetite. A new study has found that men will eat significantly more food in the company of women than they will with other men. |
| What's in a name? More than you think... Posted: 17 Nov 2015 06:24 AM PST What's in a name? In the case of the usernames of video gamers, a remarkable amount of information about their real world personalities, according to research by psychologists. Analysis of anonymized data from one of the world's most popular computer games also revealed information about their ages. |
| Methane feeds subsea ice mounds off Siberia Posted: 17 Nov 2015 06:22 AM PST Pingos are spectacular landforms associated with permafrost in the Arctic. They are circular or elliptical formations protruding from the level ground of the tundra, and can be up to 60 meters high. In essence, they are huge lumps of ice covered with soil. Similar structures are now found strewn on the ocean floor in the Arctic shallow seas. |
| Flexo-electric nanomaterial created Posted: 17 Nov 2015 06:22 AM PST Researchers have developed a 'flexo-electric' nanomaterial. The material has built-in mechanical tension that changes shape when you apply electrical voltage, or that generates electricity if you change its shape. The researchers also show that the thinner you make the material, the stronger this flexo-electric effect becomes. Researchers describe this as a completely new field of knowledge with some interesting applications. You could use the material to recharge a pacemaker inside the human body, for example, or to make highly sensitive sensors. |
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