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- Why naked mole rats feel no pain
- Jupiter’s spooky sounds: Emissions from Jupiter’s auroras captured
- Mice sing like a jet-engine
- Altering the 'flavor' of humans could help fight malaria
- Lazarus ice
- Mars-bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk from galactic cosmic ray exposure
| Why naked mole rats feel no pain Posted: 11 Oct 2016 10:36 AM PDT The African naked mole rat is an odd, homely creature with the closest thing to real-life super powers on earth. These small rodents can live for 32 years, they are cancer-resistant, and they are impervious to some types of pain. |
| Jupiter’s spooky sounds: Emissions from Jupiter’s auroras captured Posted: 10 Oct 2016 11:19 AM PDT When a NASA spacecraft made its first full orbit around Jupiter, an instrument on board recorded haunting sounds befitting the Halloween season. |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2016 10:36 AM PDT Mice court one another with ultrasonic love songs that are inaudible to the human ear. New research shows they make these unique high frequency sounds using a mechanism that has only previously been observed in supersonic jet engines. |
| Altering the 'flavor' of humans could help fight malaria Posted: 10 Oct 2016 07:38 AM PDT A specialized area of the mosquito brain mixes tastes with smells to create unique and preferred flavors. These findings advance the possibility of identifying a substance that makes "human flavor" repulsive to the malaria-bearing species of the mosquitoes, so instead of feasting on us, they keep the disease to themselves, potentially saving an estimated 450,000 lives a year worldwide. |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2016 07:36 AM PDT Every school child knows that ice melts in the summer and freezes in the winter. But it turns out that the process isn't that simple in the Arctic, where one type of sea ice structure, called an ice ridge, can actually get stronger in the summer due to melting. |
| Mars-bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk from galactic cosmic ray exposure Posted: 10 Oct 2016 02:28 AM PDT Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That's the question concerning scientists probing a phenomenon called "space brain." Scientists have found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles -- much like those found in the galactic cosmic rays that will bombard astronauts during extended spaceflights -- causes significant long-term brain damage in test rodents, resulting in cognitive impairments and dementia. |
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