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Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'

Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site nicknamed a "dinosaur dance floor" and concluded there were no dinosaur tracks there, only a dense collection of unusual p ...





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Honey bees on cocaine dance more, changing ideas about the insect brain

Biology /

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

In a study that challenges current ideas about the insect brain, researchers have found that honey bees on cocaine tend to exaggerate.


Steve Wozniak joins search startup advisory board (AP)

Steve Wozniak joins search startup advisory board

Technology / Internet

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak - currently strutting his stuff as a competitor on the ABC show "Dancing With the Stars" - is joining the advisory board of search startup DeepDyve.


I think step to the left, you think step to the east

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Even the way people remember dance moves depends on the culture they come from, according to a report in the December 14th issue of Current Biology. Whereas a German or other Westerner might think in terms of "step to the ...


Bee strategy helps servers run more sweetly

Bee strategy helps servers run more sweetly

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 16, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 0

Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command — after all, the queen bee is too busy laying eggs to oversee something as mundane as where the ...


MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity

MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

For the first time, MIT scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related to the superconductors that allow electrical currents to travel without resistance.


Wiggling and waggling: Study sheds light on amazing bee brain

Wiggling and waggling: Study sheds light on amazing bee brain

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Their brains are tiny - about the size of sesame seeds - and yet the behaviour of the humble honey bee is so advanced it has scientists scratching their heads in disbelief.


researchers reveal the internal dance of water

Researchers reveal the internal dance of water

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is familiar to everyone - it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many ...


'A dinosaur dance floor': Numerous tracks at Jurassic oasis on Arizona-Utah border

'A dinosaur dance floor': Numerous tracks at Jurassic oasis on Arizona-Utah border

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call "a dinosaur dance floor," located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there ...


The brain-machine interface (right) equipped with headgear to measure electrical current and blood flow in the brain

New robot 'steered by human thought': Honda

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Japan's Honda said Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine.


Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, says study

Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, study says

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use and control of fire are behavioral characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Now, a new study by Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports that savanna ...



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