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How hummingbirds produce fluttering sounds during courtship

Though famous for their mid-air hovering during hunting, tiny hummingbirds have another trait that is literally telltale: males of some hummingbird species generate loud sounds with their tail feathers while ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Robots learn to handle objects, understand places

(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants spend their first few months learning to find their way around and manipulating objects, and they are very flexible about it: Cups can come in different shapes and sizes, but they ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

UMaine assists podiatrist with electronic tuning fork invention

An Orono podiatrist is on the cusp of a technological breakthrough with a new medical instrument — an electronic tuning fork — that he’s developing with assistance from students and staff at the University ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of a different resonance in atomic force microscopy enhances resolution

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a highly sensitive form of microscopy that makes it possible to map a surface with near-atomic resolution. Shaw Wei Kok and colleagues from A*STAR’s Singapore Institute ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

While shepherds watched their flocks on 'Ilkely Moor'

'While shepherds watched' was the first carol to cross over to the Church of England from the secular, folk tradition and carol singers might be surprised to hear that it used to be commonly sung to the tune 'Cranbrook', ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Bird songs change with environment

Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0