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Bees show off the perfect landing

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Honey bees undergo a sudden transition from speeding aircraft to hovering helicopter as they perform the delicate art of landing on a flower.


2/3 of Australians unlikely to get vaccinated against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Australia risks a serious swine flu (H1N1 influenza virus) outbreak with two-thirds (65 per cent) of unprotected Australians stating they're unlikely to get vaccinated against the disease in the next 12 months, according ...


Tiny nano-electromagnets turn a cloak of invisibility into a possibility

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 6

A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.


On the tip of your tongue: Researchers reveal our motor system activates when we hear speech

On the tip of your tongue: Researchers reveal our motor system activates when we hear speech

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered our motor system activates automatically when we hear speech. These findings could, in the future, play a central role ...


Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Technology / Energy

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used.


Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...


New, virulent strain of MRSA poses renewed antibiotic resistance concerns

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The often feared and sometimes deadly infections caused by MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - are now moving out of hospitals and emerging as an even more virulent strain in community settings and on ath ...


Bacteria make the artificial blood vessels of the future

Bacteria make the artificial blood vessels of the future

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The cellulose produced by bacteria could be used for artificial blood vessels in the future as it carries a lower risk of blood clots than the synthetic materials currently used for bypass operations, reveals ...


Surgery recognized as effective treatment for type 2 diabetes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A first-of-its-kind consensus statement by 50 medical experts from around the world has pronounced surgery to be a legitimate and effective treatment for type 2 diabetes, bringing the procedure a significant step closer to ...


Glowing channels: Microanalysis system for rapid mercury detection

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water contaminated with mercury is very dangerous for both people and the environment, as mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals. Though laboratory analyses do deliver precise quantitative measurements, ...



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