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- Walking on water: Researchers unravel science of skipping spheres
- Researchers link compulsive Facebook checking to lack of sleep
- Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared 'bizarre' feature with dinosaur
- The evolution of 'Dark-fly'
- Diatoms sense the 'odor' of stones
| Walking on water: Researchers unravel science of skipping spheres Posted: 04 Feb 2016 12:10 PM PST Skipping stones across the water surface can be tricky. So why is it so easy to get such impressive water-skipping performance from an elastic ball? Researchers say they have answers that may reveal a lot about water impact physics. |
| Researchers link compulsive Facebook checking to lack of sleep Posted: 04 Feb 2016 12:10 PM PST If you find yourself toggling over to look at Facebook several dozen times a day, it's not necessarily because the experience of being on social media is so wonderful. It may be a sign that you're not getting enough sleep. |
| Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared 'bizarre' feature with dinosaur Posted: 04 Feb 2016 12:05 PM PST By poring over the fossilized skulls of ancient wildebeest-like animals (Rusingoryx atopocranion) unearthed on Kenya's Rusinga Island, researchers have discovered that the little-known hoofed mammals had a very unusual, trumpet-like nasal passage similar only to the nasal crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaur dinosaurs. The findings offer an example of convergent evolution between two very distantly related taxa and across tens of millions of years. |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2016 08:14 AM PST On Nov. 11, 1954, Syuiti Mori turned out the lights on a small group of fruit flies. More than 60 years later, the descendants of those flies have adapted to life without light. These flies -- a variety known as 'Dark-fly' -- outcompete their light-loving cousins when they live together in constant darkness, according to new research. Re-playing the evolution of Dark-fly identified the genomic regions that contribute to its success in the dark. |
| Diatoms sense the 'odor' of stones Posted: 04 Feb 2016 05:51 AM PST Diatoms are unicellular algae that are native in many waters. They are a major component of marine phytoplankton and the food base for a large variety of marine organisms. In addition, they produce about one fifth of the oxygen in the atmosphere and are therefore a key factor for our global climate. However, these algae, which measure only a few micrometers, have yet another amazing ability: they can "smell" stones. |
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