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- Hydrogen in your pocket? New plastic for carrying and storing hydrogen
- How sand 'holds its breath'
- Toddler robots help solve how children learn
- Could honey bee brood be the future of food?
- Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet paves the way to search for alien life
| Hydrogen in your pocket? New plastic for carrying and storing hydrogen Posted: 28 Nov 2016 10:15 AM PST A research group has developed a hydrogen-carrying polymer, which can be molded as a tangible, safe, and compact plastic sheet. |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2016 10:13 AM PST Researchers in Australia have made an important discovery about how sand 'holds its breath' -- specifically, how diatoms survive in the ever-changing environmental conditions of a beach. The finding has major implications for the biofuels industry. |
| Toddler robots help solve how children learn Posted: 28 Nov 2016 08:14 AM PST Children may learn new words using the same method as robots. New research suggests that early learning is based not on conscious thought but on an automatic ability to associate objects, which enables babies to quickly make sense of their environment. |
| Could honey bee brood be the future of food? Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:51 AM PST Honey bee brood – the larvae and pupae of drones – has great potential as a food source. It is already eaten as a delicacy in many countries, including Mexico, Thailand and Australia. It has a nutty flavor with a crunchy texture when eaten cooked or dried, and is a versatile ingredient used in soups and egg dishes. It also has high nutritional value, similar to beef in terms of protein quality and quantity, say researchers. |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:45 AM PST Scientists have observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known as K2-3d. A transit is a phenomenon in which a planet passes in front of its parent star, blocking a small amount of light from the star, like a shadow of the planet. While transits have previously been observed for thousands of other extrasolar planets, K2-3d is important because there is a possibility that it might harbor extraterrestrial life. |
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