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- Americans recognize 'past presidents' who never were, study finds
- Car roof and battery made with byproducts of paper production
- Scientists discover hidden galaxies behind the Milky Way
- Mysterious Menominee crack is unusual geological pop-up feature
- Ten fingers not needed for fast typing
- Toxoplasmosis: Morbid attraction to leopards in parasitized chimpanzees
- Slime can see: Tiny cyanobacteria use principle of the lens in the human eye to perceive light direction
| Americans recognize 'past presidents' who never were, study finds Posted: 09 Feb 2016 01:18 PM PST Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Hubert Humphrey and some guy named "Thomas Moore" are among the names that many Americans mistakenly identify as belonging to a past president of the United States, finds a news study by memory researchers. |
| Car roof and battery made with byproducts of paper production Posted: 09 Feb 2016 11:08 AM PST Swedish researchers have produced the world's first model car with a roof and battery made from wood-based carbon fiber -- a lightweight and renewable alternative to metals and other composites. |
| Scientists discover hidden galaxies behind the Milky Way Posted: 09 Feb 2016 10:20 AM PST Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor. Despite being just 250 million light years from Earth, the new galaxies had been hidden from view until now by our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Using CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope equipped with an innovative receiver, an international team of scientists were able to see through the Milky Way, into a previously unexplored region of space. |
| Mysterious Menominee crack is unusual geological pop-up feature Posted: 09 Feb 2016 10:20 AM PST Seismologists studying a massive crack in the ground that appeared north of Menominee, Michigan in 2010 now think they know what the unusual feature might be. |
| Ten fingers not needed for fast typing Posted: 09 Feb 2016 08:24 AM PST The number of fingers does not determine typing speed, new study shows. People using self-taught typing strategies were found to be as fast as trained typists. |
| Toxoplasmosis: Morbid attraction to leopards in parasitized chimpanzees Posted: 09 Feb 2016 06:06 AM PST Researchers have shown that chimpanzees infected with toxoplasmosis are attracted by the urine of their natural predators, leopards, but not by urine from other large felines. The study suggests that parasite manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii is specific to each host. It fuels an ongoing debate on the origin of behavioral modifications observed in humans infected with toxoplasmosis: they probably go back to a time when our ancestors were still preyed upon by large felines. |
| Posted: 09 Feb 2016 06:06 AM PST Scientists have been trying to figure out how it is possible for bacteria to perceive light and react to it ever since they started using microscopes 300 years ago. Scientists have now solved this riddle: In studies on so-called cyanobacteria, the researchers demonstrated that these tiny organisms of only a few micrometers in size move toward a light source using the same principle of the lens in the human eye. |
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