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- 'Space hurricane' in Earth's upper atmosphere discovered
- Detection dogs help generate important data for research and conservation
- A robot able to 'hear' through the ear of a locust
- Designing soft materials that mimic biological functions
- New study gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects
- Meeting the meat needs of the future
- Secrets of sealed 17th century letters revealed by dental X-ray scanners
- New technology allows scientists first glimpse of intricate details of Little Foot's life
- Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification
- Tiny crustaceans' show fastest repeatable movements ever seen in marine animals
| 'Space hurricane' in Earth's upper atmosphere discovered Posted: 02 Mar 2021 10:07 AM PST Analysis of observations made by satellites in 2014 has revealed a long-lasting 'space hurricane' -- a swirling mass of plasma several hundred kilometers above the North Pole, raining electrons instead of water. |
| Detection dogs help generate important data for research and conservation Posted: 02 Mar 2021 07:48 AM PST It is often difficult to find out exactly where the individual species can be found and how their populations are developing. According to a new overview, specially trained detection dogs can be indispensable in such cases. With the help of these dogs, the species sought can usually be found faster and more effectively than with other methods. |
| A robot able to 'hear' through the ear of a locust Posted: 02 Mar 2021 07:48 AM PST Scientists report connecting the ear of a dead locust to a robot that receives the ear's electrical signals and responds accordingly. |
| Designing soft materials that mimic biological functions Posted: 02 Mar 2021 05:52 AM PST A team of researchers has developed a theoretical model to design a soft material that demonstrates autonomous oscillating properties that mimic biological functions, like heartbeat. |
| New study gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects Posted: 02 Mar 2021 04:54 AM PST A large proportion of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to alleviate pain is due to an individual's mindset, not to the drug itself. Understanding the neural mechanisms driving this placebo effect has been a longstanding question. A meta-analysis finds that placebo treatments to reduce pain, known as placebo analgesia, reduce pain-related activity in multiple areas of the brain. |
| Meeting the meat needs of the future Posted: 02 Mar 2021 04:54 AM PST Researchers have succeeded in culturing meat in the laboratory in the form of millimeter-scale slabs of contractile bovine muscle. This innovative tissue culture process, arrayed in stackable hydrogel modules, uses electrical pulses to align myotubules thus mimicking the texture, grain and bulk of real steak meat. Further advances may help meet the increasing worldwide demand for dietary meat while addressing economic, environmental and ethical concerns that beset animal slaughter today. |
| Secrets of sealed 17th century letters revealed by dental X-ray scanners Posted: 02 Mar 2021 04:54 AM PST An international team of researchers has read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe - without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way. |
| New technology allows scientists first glimpse of intricate details of Little Foot's life Posted: 02 Mar 2021 04:53 AM PST In June 2019, an international team brought the complete skull of the 3.67-million-year-old Little Foot Australopithecus skeleton, from South Africa to the UK and achieved unprecedented imaging resolution of its bony structures and dentition in an X-ray synchrotron-based investigation at the UK's national synchrotron, Diamond Light Source. The X-ray work is highlighted in a new article, focusing on the inner craniodental features of Little Foot. |
| Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification Posted: 26 Feb 2021 07:37 AM PST Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, an Egyptologist has been able to reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for the afterlife. It is the oldest surviving manual on mummification yet discovered. |
| Tiny crustaceans' show fastest repeatable movements ever seen in marine animals Posted: 25 Feb 2021 11:38 AM PST A group of crustaceans called amphipods can accelerate as fast as a bullet -- literally, according to a new study. |
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