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 Argentine fossils shed light on vicious group of dinosaurs Read More » Stunning aurora footage captured from ISS NASA astronaut Jeff Williams shared a stunning aurora display on Sunday as he passed over the Earth. The U.S. Army Colonel's footage showed the green lights flashing across the sky as he passed over them onboard the International Space Station. Read More »Scientists looking for invisible dark matter can't find any
Robot with Sea Slug Parts Makes Hybrid Debut Read More » Create 3D Animations with the Stroke of a Pen With just the stroke of a pen or the click of a mouse, you can now transform your 2D sketches into 3D animations. New computer software, known as Mosketch, allows anyone to try their hand at 3D animation without toiling away at numerous sketches. Now available in beta, Mosketch was developed by Moka Studio and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a research institute in Switzerland that specializes in physical sciences and engineering. Read More »'Witch' Prison Revealed in 15th-Century Scottish Chapel Read More » Chickens May Help Repel Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes In a perhaps unexpected finding, the smell of live chickens could help in the fight against malaria, new research shows. Researchers looked at the behavior of the malaria-carrying mosquito Anopheles arabiensis in three villages in western Ethiopia, where people commonly share their living quarters with their livestock. BecauseAnopheles mosquitoes primarily use their sense of smell to find hosts, the scientists collected hair, wool and feathers from the cattle, sheep, goats and chickens in the villages, identified scent compounds known as odorants that were unique to each and then investigated how well these odorants repelled the mosquitoes. Read More »Was Zika Contracted in Florida? How the Virus Could Spread Locally Health officials in Florida are investigating a case of Zika that may have been acquired locally rather than in another country. For someone to acquire Zika in Florida, a person infected with Zika would have to spread the virus to a mosquito, which then would spread it to another human. For example, a new chain of "locally acquired" cases of Zika could happen if a Florida resident were to travel to a country where Zika is spreading, become infected with the virus and then return to Florida, where they would be bitten by a mosquito while the Zika virus was in their blood. Read More »Why Comparing Yourself to Others Is Normal That's because people automatically compare their own performance with that of others, according to the study, published today (July 20) in the journal Neuron. When they're cooperating with another person, they perceive that person's performance as a reflection on their own: A better partner makes people feel better about their own abilities, while a worse partner makes them feel incompetent, too. Read More »Newly developed wheel converts any bicycle into an electric vehicle Right off the bat, Michael Burtov said he and his team at technology startup GeoOrbital did not re-invent the wheel. After two years and five prototypes, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup has developed a new type of electric bicycle wheel that steered the company into crowdfunding stardom raising more than $1.2 million at a record-setting pace on Kickstarter. The newly developed bicycle wheel has the major components of an electric vehicle – a 500 watt motor, a lithium battery and a suit of electronics, all arranged to fit perfectly into the radial of a wheel made out of high density foam to avoid a flat. "The unique thing about this wheel is that we rearranged it," Michael Burtov, the CEO & Founder of GeoOrbital said. Read More » | ||||
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