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• Listening to the relics of the Milky Way: Sounds from oldest stars in our galaxy
• Electric eels make leaping attacks
• My Smartphone and I: Scientists show that rubber-hand illusion can be produced by smartphones
• One of eight new endemic polyester bees from Chile bears the name of a draconic Pokemon

Listening to the relics of the Milky Way: Sounds from oldest stars in our galaxy Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:07 PM PDT Astrophysicists have captured the sounds of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, according to new research.

Electric eels make leaping attacks Posted: 06 Jun 2016 12:48 PM PDT A biologist has accidentally discovered that electric eels can make leaping attacks that dramatically increase the strength of the electric shocks they deliver and, in so doing, has confirmed a 200-year-old observation by famous 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.

My Smartphone and I: Scientists show that rubber-hand illusion can be produced by smartphones Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:21 AM PDT It seems to be the stuff of pure fantasy: a hand made of rubber feels as if it belongs to the owner's body. Although it is hardly conceivable, it is an illusion which is in fact well-known in the field of psychology – and one that can be produced in skillful experimental setups. Psychologists have now shown for the first time how test persons can also integrate their own smartphones into their bodily selves. This means that whether an object is felt to belong to the owner's own body does not only depend on whether it has a form similar to that of a human hand. The extent to which the object is used also appears to play an important role.

One of eight new endemic polyester bees from Chile bears the name of a draconic Pokemon Posted: 01 Jun 2016 08:13 AM PDT Among the eight new bee species that Ph.D. student Spencer Monckton has discovered as part of his Master's degree, there is one named after a draconic creature from the Japanese franchise Pokemon. Called the stem-nesting Charizard, it belongs to a subgenus, whose 17 species are endemic to Chile, yet occupy a huge variety of habitats, covering elevations that span across 3,200 meters.

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