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- Better chow yields more milk: A more nutritious form of corn for dairy cows boosts farm profits, teen investigator finds
- Fuzzy future: Kids may suffer impaired vision from spending too little time outdoors, studies suggest
- Building with moon rocks: Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials
Matter & Energy
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A moth with chemical weapons, light-up bubbles and insidious fungi in this week’s news.
S. Luo et al/PLoS ONE 2011
- Gas sheds light on dark matter, plus cosmic ray clusters and blue-light imaging in the news.
- Groovy snake bites, buzzy microphones and coiling liquids in this week’s news.
- New technology promises brighter, bigger display screens that use less energy.
- Marijuana loses its high, plus soy tape, gritty bubbles and more in this week’s news.
- Sea sprays from increasingly open waters exert a cooling effect in the region.
- Nonlinear materials that allow directional discrimination of waves could be used to make components for light-based computers.
- A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.
- A desktop universe captures essential properties of the real thing.
- An international collaboration tries to explain the surprising stability of two-wheeled travel.
- 3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news.
- Math trick that reverses spirals and other shapes that twist and turn should provide new ways to understand and design materials.
- With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.
- A new way to fold a paper bag, plus good apples and designer silk in this week’s news.
- Physicists could be on the verge of discovering a new elementary particle, studies at a U.S. accelerator suggest.
- A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.
- Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
- Radioactive particles retrieved in the Pacific Northwest offer clues to events inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
- Sulfur found in life's possible early building blocks, plus fingerprint clues and frozen blood in this week's news
- Single-layer sheets of silicon might have electronic applications.
- A new technique would use flaws in crystal structure to hold data.
- Particles found surfing on hot plasma, plus spinning atoms and a new deep-Earth mineral in this week’s news.
- Depletion could expose the northern midlatitudes to higher-than-normal ultraviolet radiation in coming weeks.
- Anthrax used in 2001 attacks have been genetically decoded, plus booze-soaked superconductors and an inverse Doppler effect in this week’s news.
- Trekkie devices that can pull instead of push have been developed by U.S. and Chinese physicists to move small objects.
- Black carbon pollution is a more potent driver of melting in the region than increases in carbon dioxide, a new computer simulation suggests.
- Lasers 'draw' nanosized structures, plus twisty turbines and quantum vibrations in this week's news.
- Researchers predict a new form of carbon that could, if made, have industrial uses.
- Quantum states may help explain protein folding, plus more in this week’s news.
- Tests of sulfuric acid on pig carcasses cast doubts on Mafia claims of dissolving murder victims in a matter of minutes.
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