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- Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star
- NuSTAR finds cosmic clumpy doughnut around black hole
- Scientists manipulate consciousness in rats
- Ancient Egyptians described Algol's eclipses
- How anti-evolution bills evolve
- 'Red Deer Cave people' bone points to mysterious species of pre-modern human
- Aphids balance their diets by rebuilding plant amino acids
- Cells use mechanism to eat each other before becoming toxic
- 'Al dente' fibers could make bulletproof vests stronger and 'greener'
| Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star Posted: 17 Dec 2015 01:09 PM PST Just in time for the release of the movie "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens," NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. |
| NuSTAR finds cosmic clumpy doughnut around black hole Posted: 17 Dec 2015 12:43 PM PST The most massive black holes in the universe are often encircled by thick, doughnut-shaped disks of gas and dust. This deep-space doughnut material ultimately feeds and nourishes the growing black holes tucked inside. |
| Scientists manipulate consciousness in rats Posted: 17 Dec 2015 12:17 PM PST Scientists showed that they could alter brain activity of rats and either wake them up or put them in an unconscious state by changing the firing rates of neurons in the central thalamus, a region known to regulate arousal. |
| Ancient Egyptians described Algol's eclipses Posted: 17 Dec 2015 12:16 PM PST The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar is the oldest preserved historical document of naked eye observations of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol -- a manifestation of Horus, a god and a king. This calendar contains lucky or unlucky prognoses for each day of one year. Researchers have performed a statistical analysis of the Cairo Calendar mythological texts. |
| How anti-evolution bills evolve Posted: 17 Dec 2015 12:16 PM PST An evolutionary biologist has analyzed political opposition to evolution and found it has evolved. The researcher analyzed the text in anti-evolution legislation using software for building genetic family trees. |
| 'Red Deer Cave people' bone points to mysterious species of pre-modern human Posted: 17 Dec 2015 12:15 PM PST A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age. The 14,000 year old bone -- found among the remains of China's enigmatic 'Red Deer Cave people' -- has been shown to have features that resemble those of some of the most ancient members of the human genus, Homo, despite its young age. |
| Aphids balance their diets by rebuilding plant amino acids Posted: 16 Dec 2015 12:17 PM PST Aphids survive on an unbalanced diet of plant sap by breaking down all available plant amino acids and rebuilding essential ones, new research shows. |
| Cells use mechanism to eat each other before becoming toxic Posted: 15 Dec 2015 06:45 AM PST In much the same way PAC-MAN gobbles through an intense maze of dots eating and destroying its aggressors, researchers have revealed for the first time how a similar mechanism in the eye lens does exactly the same thing. They have discovered that cells in close proximity to each other can sense when a cell is dying due to environmental stressors like UV light, smoke and other pollutants, and eat the cell before it becomes toxic. |
| 'Al dente' fibers could make bulletproof vests stronger and 'greener' Posted: 09 Dec 2015 10:57 AM PST Bulletproof vests and other super-strong materials could soon become even tougher and more environmentally friendly at the same time with the help of extra firm, or 'al dente,' fibers. Researchers report an innovative way to spin high-performance polyethylene fibers from natural fats, such as oils from olives and peanuts. |
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