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- Mystery Meteorite: The case for (and against) a rock from Mercury
- Hard Times for Theorists in a Post-Higgs World: The Large Hadron Collider’s big success leaves no clear avenue for new physics
- In the Eye of the Tiger: Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions
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- Infection time: Disease is more severe when it hits in the morning, at least in mice
- Explainer: Our bodies’ internal clocks: Biological clocks determine hunger, sleepiness and other daily rhythms
- Flu in the air: Germs tiny enough to pass through surgical masks may cause half of all cases
Other Topics
- When struck with light, retinal prostheses stimulate animals' visual cortices.
- Experimental microchip improves reliability and speed of writing and reading data.
- Selections from the meeting held June 2-7 in Montreal include personal listening zones in cars and music of the body.
- Throat movements get decoded to reveal sounds of speech.
- Invention harnesses oxygen-trapping power of iron
- Engineers take a lesson from nature’s masters of disguise
- Trucks covered with tiny indentations, like those on golf balls, experience less friction
- Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials
- “Smart alert washer” automatically flags when a nut is coming loose, warning of potential danger
- Teen designs device that could almost double the life of airplane tires
- Imagine having a printer hooked up to your computer that could make anything. Want a chocolate treat? Print it. Need a new dress, new shoes or maybe just new cleats for soccer? Just choose a style and size. Then print, print and print some more. It could print out a new house.
- After years of trying, researchers create flapping machines that can hover and perform rudimentary flight maneuvers.
- Inspired by insect vision, camera with 180 linked lenses captures panoramic views.
- How America’s latest attempt at fusion power fizzled.
- DNA-based switches could be used in diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
- Six-legged machine runs across grainy surfaces.
- A new program mines mobile provider records for suspicious patterns.
- The polymer cranium was made using a 3-D printer.
- With data from thousands of volunteers, researchers connect social media activity to personal traits.
- Signals transmitted from one animal to another seem to share information, but usefulness of findings questioned.
- Using a technique known as 3-D printing, regular people can now make goods typically produced in huge quantities in factories overseas.
- Two-photon microscopy visualizes hair cells in the inner ear, offering insights into processes leading to deafness.
- The molecule swaps its biological role for a computational one, that of long-term data storage.
- Metamaterials and math combine to produce a quick, cheap system.
- Tiny device created with a 3-D printer employs heart cells to make it move.
- Coated carbon nanotubes form the basis of this smart new material.
- Layered nanomaterial shows how bulletproof polymers wrap around penetrating particles.
- Human longevity is largely a modern phenomenon.
- Metal nanoparticles trigger cell's own death machinery.
- Technique combines silicon, magnesium and silk for medical implants, transistors and digital cameras that can melt away.
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