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- Methane muted: How did early Earth stay warm?
- How gecko feet got sticky
- Apes understand that some things are all in your head
- Some birds behave like human musicians
- Smallest. Transistor. Ever.
- Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star
- Scientists search for regional accents in cod
- Beer eases final moments for euthanized invertebrates, study finds
| Methane muted: How did early Earth stay warm? Posted: 07 Oct 2016 06:06 AM PDT For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn't. Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study has fired the lead actor in that long-accepted scenario. |
| Posted: 07 Oct 2016 05:57 AM PDT How do key innovations in the animal kingdom arise? To explore this question, evolutionary biologists studied Gonatodes, a genus of dwarf geckos. In the process, the researchers found a gecko,Gonatodes humeralis that they posit offers a "snapshot" into the evolution of adhesion in geckos. |
| Apes understand that some things are all in your head Posted: 06 Oct 2016 01:07 PM PDT We all know that the way someone sees the world, and the way it really is, aren't always the same. This ability to recognize that someone's beliefs may differ from reality has long been seen as unique to humans. |
| Some birds behave like human musicians Posted: 06 Oct 2016 12:49 PM PDT The tuneful behavior of some songbirds parallels that of human musicians, according to new research. |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2016 11:05 AM PDT Engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. Now, a team of researchers has succeeded in creating a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate. For comparison, a strand of human hair is about 50,000 nanometers thick. |
| Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star Posted: 06 Oct 2016 10:30 AM PDT NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star. The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the moon. The fireballs present a puzzle to astronomers, because the ejected material could not have been shot out by the host star. |
| Scientists search for regional accents in cod Posted: 06 Oct 2016 08:18 AM PDT Fish may have regional accents and communicate differently in different parts of the world, according to a fish expert. |
| Beer eases final moments for euthanized invertebrates, study finds Posted: 06 Oct 2016 06:28 AM PDT A scientist sought a humane way to end the lives of snails in a laboratory. She found a dip in a few ounces of beer or a 5 percent ethyl alcohol solution sedates the snails. Then they don't exhibit signs of physical distress during a terminal dunk in 95 percent ethyl alcohol. |
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