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What we can learn from the Seahorse
Posted: July 7, 2015One of the ocean’s oddest little creatures, the seahorse, is providing inspiration for robotics researchers as they learn from nature how to build robots that have capabilities sometimes at odds…
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Are kangaroos left-handed?
Posted: July 6, 2015President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates are all lefties, and now they have unusual colleagues: kangaroos. According to a new study, some wild kangaroos tend to favor their left hands…
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How rain can enhance food safety
Posted: July 6, 2015To protect consumers from foodborne illness, produce farmers should wait 24 hours after a rain or irrigating their fields to harvest crops, according to new research published in the journal…
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Transgenderism in Black Sea Bass
Posted: July 6, 2015Rutgers marine researchers and New Jersey fishermen are piecing together the details of the strange, gender-bending sex lives of black sea bass – a study that could improve understanding of…
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Walk to improve your health
Posted: July 5, 2015Wearable devices that monitor physical well-being and fitness are incredibly popular. The number sold is expected to increase from 17.7 million in 2014 to more than 40 million this year.1Personally,…
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Greece's economic problems linked to its coal-based energy policies
Posted: July 4, 2015As Greece prepares for its referendum, Takis Grigoriou takes Greece to task for its highly polluting lignite power sector, its ditching of a successful solar program in favour of more…
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Advertising coming to EV charging stations?
Posted: July 3, 2015While many electric vehicle owners will find it irritating and annoying to be hit with adverts when charging their vehicles, is this a sign of the times? The fact that…
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New data on distant galaxy numbers
Posted: July 3, 2015There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the Universe then might be expected, suggests a new study based on simulations conducted using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the…
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Can we grow plants in space?
Posted: July 2, 2015A Purdue University study shows that targeting plants with red and blue LEDs provides energy-efficient lighting in contained environments, a finding that could advance the development of crop-growth modules for…
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Extremely high coastal erosion in northern Alaska
Posted: July 2, 2015In a new study published today, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey found that the remote northern Alaska coast has some of the highest shoreline erosion rates in the world.Analyzing…
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