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- Most eccentric planet ever known flashes astronomers with reflected light
- Out for blood: Fluid dynamics explain how quickly a vampire could drain your blood
- The linguistics of signifying time: The human gesture as clock
- First successful extraction of ancient DNA from a southern African mummy
| Most eccentric planet ever known flashes astronomers with reflected light Posted: 18 Mar 2016 03:16 PM PDT A team of astronomers has spotted an extrasolar planet that boasts the most eccentric orbit ever seen. The planet moves in a flattened ellipse, traveling a long path far from its star and then making a fast slingshot around the star at its closest approach. Researchers detected a 'flash' of starlight bouncing off the planet's atmosphere as it made its closest orbital approach to its star. |
| Out for blood: Fluid dynamics explain how quickly a vampire could drain your blood Posted: 18 Mar 2016 08:15 AM PDT Throughout human history there have been tales of vampires -- bloodsucking creatures of folklore that prey on their victims by draining their life essence, usually via the blood. To coincide with the 85th anniversary of Tod Browning's 'Dracula' (1931), students have used fluid dynamics to examine how long it would take for the undead fiend to drain an average human's blood -- and have calculated that it would take only 6.4 minutes to drain 15 per cent of the blood from the external carotid artery in a human's neck. |
| The linguistics of signifying time: The human gesture as clock Posted: 17 Mar 2016 12:11 PM PDT A new scientific study documenting the linguistic practices of the Northwestern Amazonian peoples uncovers an unusual method of communicating the human concept of time. |
| First successful extraction of ancient DNA from a southern African mummy Posted: 16 Mar 2016 07:51 AM PDT Researchers have presented one of the first CT scans of a mummified individual from southern Africa, and also completed the first successful ancient DNA extraction from such remains. |
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