Antarctic Ocean: no consensus yet on sanctuaries
As the southern hemisphere summer sets in, fishing trawlers from numerous nations head southwards, many of them to the southern ocean. Around this time (October) delegates of member nations of the...
View ArticleAnimal origin of 13th-century uterine vellum revealed using noninvasive...
Abstract Tissue-thin parchment made it possible to produce the first pocket Bibles: Thousands were made in the 13th century. The source of this parchment, often called “uterine vellum,” has been a...
View ArticleGetting under the skin of a Medieval mystery (University of York)
(Source: University of York) Posted on 23 November 2015 A simple PVC eraser has helped an international team of scientists led by bioarchaeologists at the University of York to resolve the mystery...
View ArticleNew fabric claims to be blackest black, a.k.a. Wednesday Addams' dream
For everyone who describes their wardrobe as "all black everything," they're lying. Now there's a color even blacker than black: Viperblack. Phoebe Heess and Gabriel Platt, founders of German fashion...
View ArticleThe biological secrets that make Sherpas superhuman mountaineers
(CNN)Mount Everest is the ultimate test for adventurers trying to test their boundaries, but when it comes to climbing this natural monument, one group of people excel -- Sherpas. The Sherpa people are...
View ArticleArmor plating with built-in transparent ceramic eyes (MIT - Massachusetts...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Usually, it's a tradeoff: If you want maximum physical protection, whether from biting predators or exploding artillery shells, that generally...
View ArticleAmplifying — or removing — visual variation (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) At the Siggraph Asia conference this week, MIT researchers presented a pair of papers describing techniques for either magnifying or smoothing out...
View ArticleFlipping the switch to better see cancer cells at depths (Washington...
(Source: Washington University in Saint Louis) Using a high-tech imaging method, a team of biomedical engineers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St....
View ArticlePigeons can identify cancerous tissue on x-rays, study finds
Three experiments found that the birds can pick out diseased breast tissue with an accuracy rate of up to 99% and could help develop new imaging techniques...
View ArticleNew "tricorder" technology might be able to "hear" tumors growing (Stanford...
(Source: Stanford University) Stanford Report, November 9, 2015 A new technology has promise to safely find buried plastic explosives and maybe even spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the...
View ArticleResearchers Can Now 3D Print Stem Cell "Building Blocks"
3D printing is one of a number of technologies that have bloomed and spread across the world incredibly rapidly in the last decade. Prosthetics for amputees, rocket parts, and bridges have all been...
View ArticleRare Dinosaur Find: Fossil Covered in Feathers, Skin
The skeleton of a heavily feathered, ostrichlike dinosaur has "unparalleled" fossilized feathers and skin — anatomical features that aren't usually preserved in dinosaur remains, a new study reports....
View ArticleFish sizes likely to be smaller with warming
GLOBAL warming is likely to shrink the size of fish by as much as a quarter in coming decades, according to a groundbreaking study of the world's oceans. The reduction in individual fish size is...
View ArticleResearchers Grow Vocal Cord Tissue That Can 'Talk'
Researchers have grown vocal cord tissue in the lab, and it works — the tissue was able to produce sound when it was transplanted into intact voice boxes from animals, according to a new study. This...
View ArticlePlants' Chemical Warfare Mechanism Revealed For First Time
War isn't just for humans: In the plant kingdom, various species cooperate with each other or directly fight for resources against each other. Although it has been known for some time that plants...
View ArticleAntarctic Ocean wilderness left vunerable, but new hope emerges (WWF-UK)
(Source: WWF-UK) 30 October 2015 WWF expressed disappointment as the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) failed to reach consensus, for the fifth time, to...
View ArticleORNL wins six R&D 100 awards (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
(Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 16, 2015-Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received six R&D 100 awards, increasing the...
View ArticleHallucinations? They May Just Be Caused By A Fold In The Brain
Imagine hearing a voice that screams, “You’re no good at this and you’re going to fail every exam” but not knowing where it came from. Or suddenly seeing a poisonous snake slithering towards you. Even...
View ArticleUltrasound captures rat brain in microscopic 3D
Scientists in France have developed an ultrasound technique that can rapidly build up a 3D view of a network of blood vessels, in microscopic detail. They used it to scan the blood vessels throughout...
View ArticleA new voice: Scientists grow working human vocal cords from cells
Vocal cords that produce realistic sounds have been grown in the lab from human cells. The work marks a first step towards better treatments for patients who lose their voices to injury or disease....
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