All Stories by Rebecca Cheung
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- Life
Blue light tells plants when to flower
Protein that marks day length also coordinates blooming genes.
- Ecosystems
Darwin’s Devices
What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology, by John Long.
- Health & Medicine
Even moderate noise may harm hearing
Chronic, low-level sound exposure causes deficits in rats.
- Life
Gene appears linked with a person’s daily rhythms
Variations could play a role in determining time of death, or help shift workers better adapt.
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Secret of a Lifetime
How long a neutron lives holds clues to the cosmos.
- Life
Tree cricket song has note of variability
Wings’ length, individual segments allow species to produce mating calls in range of frequencies.
- Life
Larvae sustain comb jelly population
Species thrives in Baltic Sea despite never reaching adulthood.
- Life
Polar bears older than previously thought
New analysis reveals that the Arctic species dates back to about 600,000 years ago.
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- Physics
Long-sought particles possibly glimpsed
Majorana fermions, which are their own antiparticle, could one day be useful in quantum computing.
- Physics
Insects covered in tough stuff
Locust exoskeleton could inspire new, fracture-resistant materials.
