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• RedEye could let your phone see 24-7
• Silencing of gene affects people's social lives
• Newborn giant planet grazes its star
• Ultra-thin solar cells can easily bend around a pencil
• Strong 'electric wind' strips planets of oceans and atmospheres
• Astrophysicists release new study of one of the first stars

RedEye could let your phone see 24-7 Posted: 20 Jun 2016 01:11 PM PDT Researchers have just the thing for information overload: image-processing technology that sees all and remembers only what it should. RedEye could allow computers to continuously see what their owners see.

Silencing of gene affects people's social lives Posted: 20 Jun 2016 01:01 PM PDT Psychologists have found that the silencing of a specific gene may affect human social behavior, including a person's ability to form healthy relationships or to recognize the emotional states of others.

Newborn giant planet grazes its star Posted: 20 Jun 2016 08:25 AM PDT For the past 20 years, exoplanets known as 'hot Jupiters' have puzzled astronomers. These giant planets orbit 100 times closer to their host stars than Jupiter does to the Sun, which increases their surface temperatures. But how and when in their history did they migrate so close to their star? Now, an international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very young hot Jupiter orbiting in the immediate vicinity of a star that is barely two million years old -- the stellar equivalent of a week-old infant. This first-ever evidence that hot Jupiters can appear at such an early stage represents a major step forward in our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve.

Ultra-thin solar cells can easily bend around a pencil Posted: 20 Jun 2016 08:25 AM PDT New flexible photovoltaics could power wearable electronics.

Strong 'electric wind' strips planets of oceans and atmospheres Posted: 20 Jun 2016 07:02 AM PDT Venus has an 'electric wind' strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere, which may have played a significant role in stripping the planet of its oceans.

Astrophysicists release new study of one of the first stars Posted: 17 Jun 2016 09:04 AM PDT A research team has used the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to study key regions of the ultraviolet spectrum of a star thought to have been enriched by elements from one of the first generation of stars.

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