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- Women ratchet themselves up the social ladder, one high heel at a time
- New evidence connects dung beetle evolution to dinosaurs
- Engineers create a better way to boil water, with industrial, electronics applications
- Star with different internal driving force than the sun
- Venus flytrap exploits plant defenses in carnivorous lifestyle
- Yeast infection linked to mental illness
| Women ratchet themselves up the social ladder, one high heel at a time Posted: 04 May 2016 02:48 PM PDT Fashion seems to embrace two opposite goals -- fitting in with the crowd and standing out from it. Now new research reveals that the choice to fit in or stand out depends on who exactly the crowd is -- and the size of their high heels. That is, women adjust their fashion to look similar to the rich but different from the poor. |
| New evidence connects dung beetle evolution to dinosaurs Posted: 04 May 2016 12:20 PM PDT Researchers have found an evolutionary connection between dinosaurs and dung beetles. Scientists uncovered the first molecular evidence indicating that dung beetles evolved in association with dinosaurs. The findings place the origin of dung beetles in the Lower Cretaceous period, with the first major diversification occurring in the middle of the Cretaceous. This timeline places their origins approximately 30 million years earlier than previously thought. |
| Engineers create a better way to boil water, with industrial, electronics applications Posted: 04 May 2016 12:20 PM PDT Engineers have found a new way to induce and control boiling bubble formation, that may allow everything from industrial-sized boilers to advanced electronics to work better and last longer. |
| Star with different internal driving force than the sun Posted: 04 May 2016 11:11 AM PDT A star like the sun has an internal driving in the form of a magnetic field that can be seen on the surface as sunspots. Now astrophysicists have observed a distant star in the constellation Andromeda with a different positioning of sunspots and this indicates a magnetic field that is driven by completely different internal dynamics. |
| Venus flytrap exploits plant defenses in carnivorous lifestyle Posted: 04 May 2016 11:08 AM PDT Venus flytraps have fascinated biologists for centuries, however, the molecular underpinnings of their carnivorous lifestyle remain largely unknown. Researchers have now characterized gene expression, protein secretion, and ultrastructural changes during stimulation of Venus flytraps and discover that common plant defense systems, which typically protect plants from being eaten, are also used by Venus flytraps for insect feeding. |
| Yeast infection linked to mental illness Posted: 04 May 2016 09:13 AM PDT In a study prompted in part by suggestions from people with mental illness, researchers found that a history of Candida yeast infections was more common in a group of men with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder than in those without these disorders, and that women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder who tested positive for Candida performed worse on a standard memory test than women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder who had no evidence of past infection. |
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