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- Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened
- Fundamental limits of invisibility cloaks determined
- Ostrich relative lived in North America about 50 million years ago
- The story of how a touch screen helped a paralyzed chimp walk again
- Bouncing droplets remove contaminants like pogo jumpers
- New plastic material begins to oscillate spontaneously in sunlight
- Pedal powered cinema
- Infant bodies were 'prized' by 19th century anatomists, study suggests
| Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened Posted: 05 Jul 2016 01:45 PM PDT It may not have taken much in the early solar system to set Earth and Venus on very different paths, according to researchers. A new paper points the way toward what scientists should consider as they seek habitable planets elsewhere in the galaxy. |
| Fundamental limits of invisibility cloaks determined Posted: 05 Jul 2016 01:02 PM PDT The researchers' theory confirms that it is possible to use cloaks to perfectly hide an object for a specific wavelength, but hiding an object from an illumination containing different wavelengths becomes more challenging as the size of the object increases. |
| Ostrich relative lived in North America about 50 million years ago Posted: 05 Jul 2016 09:20 AM PDT The new species is named Calciavis grandei -- with "calci" meaning "hard/stone," and "avis" from the Latin for bird, and "grandei" in honor of famed paleontologist Lance Grande who has studied the fossil fish from the same ancient North American lake for decades. |
| The story of how a touch screen helped a paralyzed chimp walk again Posted: 05 Jul 2016 09:01 AM PDT The case of Reo, a male chimpanzee that learned to walk again after being paralyzed due to illness, shows how much can be done to rehabilitate animals injured in captivity. |
| Bouncing droplets remove contaminants like pogo jumpers Posted: 05 Jul 2016 08:20 AM PDT Researchers are exploring whether surfaces can shed dirt without being subjected to fragile coatings. |
| New plastic material begins to oscillate spontaneously in sunlight Posted: 05 Jul 2016 08:19 AM PDT Place this thin layer of plastic in the sun and it begins to oscillate irregularly all by itself. This material is the first that moves spontaneously under the influence of daylight. According to the researchers, this pliable plastic is suitable as a self-cleaning surface, for example for solar cells. |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2016 06:22 AM PDT A team of engineering students has produced a bicycle powered generator which could power a 55 watt projector for the time required to watch a movie. |
| Infant bodies were 'prized' by 19th century anatomists, study suggests Posted: 30 Jun 2016 06:44 PM PDT A study of the University of Cambridge anatomy collection dating from the 1700s and 1800s shows how the bodies of stillborn fetuses and babies were valued for research into human development, and preserved as important teaching aids. |
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