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Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...


A special kind of flight training

A special kind of flight training

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.


New molecule identified in DNA damage response

New molecule identified in DNA damage response

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution places the highest premium on reproduction, natural selection’s only standard for biological success. In the case of replicating cells, life spares no expense to ensure that the ...


Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish

Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created 12 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Israel and the UK have uncovered the details of how certain fish and spiders create their iridescent scales and silvery skins.


Testosterone does not induce aggression

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8

New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects ...


NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.


Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state

Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 8 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells are not static. They can transform themselves over time — but change can have dangerous implications. Benign cells, for example, can suddenly change into cancerous ones.


More than fish bait: Worms unlock secrets to new epilepsy treatments

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of scientists from The University of Alabama used worms to reel in information that they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular mechanisms that may be exploited to treat epilepsy. In a new research report ...


MSU research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.


UCSB scientists show that female fruit flies can be 'too attractive' to males

Scientists show that female fruit flies can be 'too attractive' to males

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Females can be too attractive to the opposite sex -- too attractive for their own good -- say biologists at UC Santa Barbara. They found that, among fruit flies, too much male attention directed toward attractive ...



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