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- Sharks get bad rap when viewed with ominous background music
- Radar tracking reveals the 'life stories' of bumblebees as they forage for food
- Dot-drawing with drones
- Mystery of Sable Island’s Growing Wild Horse Population
- Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter
- Lab-reared maggots may save Darwin's famous finches
- Phase-change device imitates the functionality of neurons
- Towards the T-1000: Liquid metals propel future electronics
| Sharks get bad rap when viewed with ominous background music Posted: 04 Aug 2016 02:16 PM PDT In a new study, researchers found that the background music in shark documentaries affects viewers' perceptions of sharks. The researchers suggest that ominous background music could hinder shark conservation efforts. |
| Radar tracking reveals the 'life stories' of bumblebees as they forage for food Posted: 04 Aug 2016 12:27 PM PDT Scientists have tracked the flight paths of a group of bumblebees throughout their entire lives to find out how they explore their environment and search for food. |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2016 11:14 AM PDT You may have heard of plans to use drones for delivering packages, monitoring wildlife, or tracking storms. But painting murals? Researchers have enlisted tiny drones to create dot drawings -- an artistic technique known as stippling. |
| Mystery of Sable Island’s Growing Wild Horse Population Posted: 04 Aug 2016 07:19 AM PDT Biologists have made a significant advance in understanding the ecology of Sable Island and its iconic wild horses -- one that underscores how intimately connected living systems are. |
| Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter Posted: 04 Aug 2016 07:16 AM PDT When human and chimp infants are dozing, they sometimes show facial movements that resemble smiles. These facial expressions, called spontaneous smiles, are considered the evolutionary origin of real smiles and laughter. Researchers show that this not only happens to higher-order primates like humans and chimpanzees, but also in newborn Japanese macaques, which are more distant relatives in the evolutionary tree. |
| Lab-reared maggots may save Darwin's famous finches Posted: 04 Aug 2016 06:51 AM PDT Researchers reveal how they used chicken blood to rear larvae of the fly Philornis downsi, an invasive species that parasitizes birds in the Galapagos Islands. The new method may be the first to effectively rear an avian blood-feeding fly from egg to adult in the absence of its host. |
| Phase-change device imitates the functionality of neurons Posted: 04 Aug 2016 06:33 AM PDT Scientists have created randomly spiking neurons using phase-change materials to store and process data. This demonstration marks a significant step forward in the development of energy-efficient, ultra-dense integrated neuromorphic technologies for applications in cognitive computing. |
| Towards the T-1000: Liquid metals propel future electronics Posted: 04 Aug 2016 04:12 AM PDT How can we move beyond solid state electronics towards flexible soft circuit systems? New self-propelling liquid metals could be the answer. The advance opens the potential for creating makeshift and floating electronics, bringing science fiction - like the shape-shifting liquid metal T-1000 Terminator - one step closer to real life. |
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