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• New discovery may lead to the development of super premium gasoline
• Partnership at a distance: Deep-frozen helium molecules illuminate quantum-mechanical tunnelling
• Migrating birds pile up along Great Lakes' shores
• Bacteria produce aphrodisiac that sets off protozoan mating swarm

New discovery may lead to the development of super premium gasoline Posted: 07 Dec 2016 11:07 AM PST In contradicting a theory that's been the standard for over eighty years, researchers have made a discovery holding major promise for the petroleum industry. The research has revealed that in the foreseeable future products such as crude oil and gasoline could be transported across country 30 times faster, and the several minutes it takes to fill a tank of gas could be reduced to mere seconds.

Partnership at a distance: Deep-frozen helium molecules illuminate quantum-mechanical tunnelling Posted: 07 Dec 2016 09:41 AM PST As atomic physicists have now been able to confirm, over 75 percent of the time helium atoms are so far apart that their bond can be explained only by the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect.

Migrating birds pile up along Great Lakes' shores Posted: 07 Dec 2016 06:29 AM PST Birds prefer to migrate at night -- so much so that if day breaks while they're over water, they'll turn back toward the nearest shore rather than pressing on, concludes a new study that used weather radar to examine the behavior of birds crossing the Great Lakes.

Bacteria produce aphrodisiac that sets off protozoan mating swarm Posted: 06 Dec 2016 09:54 AM PST Scientists have demonstrated that bacteria can drive mating in eukaryotes raises possibility that environmental bacteria or bacterial symbionts may influence mating in animals.

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