Ohio University's nano-sized monster truck led to a curious finding.
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The world's shortest race by distance -- a fraction of the width of a human hair -- was run on gold and silver tracks, and took a...
Girl yelling (stock photo).
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When we see somebody suffering, we normally feel uneasy and want to help. However, this feeling can be reversed. When we know someone behaved in an antisocial manner, we can remain unsympathetic...
Living B. burgdorferi spirochetes were found in ticks that fed upon primates and in multiple organs after treatment with 28 days of doxycycline, report scientists.
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Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research...
Plastic pollution threatens sea turtles.
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Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches, including plastic 'six pack' holders and discarded fishing gear.
The...
Professor Eberhard Gischler and his doctoral researcher Dominik Schmitt with the last piece of the stalactite recovered from the Blue Hole by Jacques Cousteau in 1970.
Credit: Daniel Parwareschnia
In 1970, a team led by French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau recovered...
Illumination of a book ('Paradise Lost,' by John Milton) with the nanobionic light-emitting plants (two 3.5-week-old watercress plants). The book and the light-emitting watercress plants were placed in front of a reflective paper to increase the influence from the...
Interior view of the cave and excavation trench as of the end of the 2012 field season.
Credit: João Zilhão
Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer than we thought in Southern Iberia -- what is now Spain -- long after...
A two-year-old chimp named Betty, who succumbed to the virus.
Credit: Richard Wrangham
In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation.
That's why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease...
Do video games give gamers an edge in learning?
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Neuropsychologists of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum let video gamers compete against non-gamers in a learning competition. During the test, the video gamers performed significantly better and showed...
In order to achieve better brain signal transmission quality, the researchers apply contact gel.
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Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images: Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in...
A robot toddler used in this study.
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Children learn new words using the same method as robots, according to psychologists.
This suggests that early learning is based not on conscious thought but on...
