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Birds stop fighting when things get tough

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Researchers from Taiwan found a bird species that becomes more cooperative when hit by unfavourable environmental conditions. Their report was published today in the journal Nature Communications. The results from this work show an outstanding example of how ecological factors can have a significant influence on cooperative and competitive behaviour, reducing social conflict among group members, as the authors explain in their report: "This study is the first theoretical analysis and empirical...

World's largest and smelliest flower, open for business

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

On June 13, the Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum), bloomed, bringing joy and a powerful stench of rotting flesh to all the hundreds of visitors who gathered to witness this event at the Moody Gardens Rainforest Pyramid in Galveston Island, Texas, USA. The flower, measuring in at 56 inches tall and 40 inches in circumference, blooms only for 2-4 days. Native of Sumatra, Indonesia, the flower of this plant has an unpredictable blooming schedule and grows from an underground tuber which can...

Tech News: Vein-based biometric technology, and Pop-up buttons on your iPhone

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Here are two recent technological advancements that caught my attention.

First, Fujitsu has developed the world's smallest and slimmest biometric sensor capable of detecting your palm vein pattern which, it turns out, is as unique as you. The new sensor may soon become part of tablet and other portable devices.

You can learn more about it here

And, for a cool video check out this website.


Then, Tactus Technology, a Fremont, California, USA company, has created "Tactus", a deformable layer...

Vampire Jumping Spider lust for bloody mosquitoes

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Evarcha culicivora is a jumping spider native of Kenya, where it is also known as the vampire spider, because of the bloody menu it craves. These spiders have a strong preference for female blood-fed Anopheles mosquitoes, which they sort out from swarms of other similarly sized insects. The research, led by Ximena Nelson and Robert Jackson, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, was published on the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB). How do they manage this? The...

Super Microscope can track every cell of a growing embryo

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Two teams of researchers led by Philipp Keller, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in Maryland, USA and Lars Hufnagel, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, have independently designed and built a new generation of microscopes, capable of capturing three-dimensional images of all the cells in a whole living embryo, all the way throughout its development. The new microscope can track down, and register every bit of action of a fertilized egg as it performs...

16-year old German finds solution for 350 year old math problem

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Shouryya Ray, a 16-year-old German student from Dresden, has solved a 350 year old puzzle originally proposed by Sir Isaac Newton. Shouryya, who moved to Dresden from India at age 12 when his father got a job at a technical college, has proposed a solution for two basic problems on particle dynamics theory. First, to accurately predict the trajectory followed by a ball travelling at an angle, and to predict its exact behavior after it bounces against a wall.  Seems simple? Well, apparently...

World's first chemical circuit designed

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Swedish researchers have created the elementary building blocks of logic circuits based  on ion transistors, capable of transporting both positive and negative ions, as well as bio-molecules. The research team, led by Magnus Berggren, Professor of Organic Electronics at Linköping University, had previously succeeded at creating these ion transporting transistors separately, but now they have succeeded at merging these them into complementary circuits, in a similar way to traditional...

German researchers use google-based search approach for cancer treatment

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

As many of us, you are likely an avid google user, and know your way around the web. Perhaps you are even an expert web crawler, and can find just about anything on the web. But can you find new ways to help cancer patients? Well, a group of German researchers did just that.

Christof Winter, from Dresden University of Technology, led a team of researchers, which included Helmut Friess from Technische Universität München, that modified Google's PageRank algorithm to rank about 20,000 proteins...

Munich leading the way for the electric car of the future

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Electric vehicles, with a very low-level of noise, represent for many the ideal of personal mobility, with the added bonus of being friendly for the environment.

However, the current technology used to design these vehicles still has several disadvantages that prevent them from being mass-produced. Current electric cars provide reduced safety levels for those small models relying only on electricity. Models employing gasoline/electric hybrid systems are rather heavy and require large and...

Munich shines in Hannover Messe

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Recently, the international trade fair Hannover Messe took place, from April 23-27, bringing together some of the world's most interesting and ground-breaking innovations in various field of technology. You can check their website for videos of the event at hannovermesse video.

Munich researchers had a place at this conference with an innovative vehicle named "Innotruck", designed with a futuristic look and a smart "mind" of its own, being capable of interacting with its driver, and...

Why spiders dont stick to their own web, centuries old mystery solved

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Researchers at the University of Costa Rica led by Daniel Briceños and William Eberhard tackle the very old yet never fully answered question of just how come spiders do not stick to their own webs. This Research Snapshot comes all the way from Costa Rica, pura vida! Researchers Daniel Briceños and William Eberhard from the University of Costa Rica and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have figured out the ancient question of just how spiders avoid sticking to their own...

Celebrate Earth's day with this heart-warming tale

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

To celebrate Earth's day 2012, DisneyNature has released a new nature film, this time about Chimpanzees, and about a very lucky 3-year old chimp called Oscar.

See the preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8AeSh1rGs So what is the story behind this film?
Jane Goodall is a famous British primatologist who has worked with wild chimpanzees for over 45 years at the Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. While she was not involved in the production of the movie, she is promoting it, and...

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