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Wiggling and waggling: Study sheds light on amazing bee brain

Wiggling and waggling: Study sheds light on amazing bee brain

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | 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.


Smashing trash with solar power

Technology / Energy

created 18 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy.


Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...


Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting ...


Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline

Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created 12 hours ago | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In excess of seven million barrels of gasoline are consumed by vehicles in the United States every day. As scientists race to find environmentally sound solutions to fuel the world’s ever-growing ...


More precise measurements of the W boson

Physics / General Physics

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that is the most fundamental in nature. The W boson is res ...


Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights (AP)

Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights

Technology / Energy

created 18 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.


The next medical frontier: nano-surgery

The next medical frontier: nano-surgery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering professor's nanorobot could be performing non-invasive surgical procedures on patients with tumors within the next decade.


Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven scientists have created a new enzyme with the potential to interfere with a key cell-wall component in plants, possibly leading to plants that are easier to "digest" and convert ...


Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Physics / General Physics

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.



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