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Cardinal Rule: Female Birds Sing Too
11:16pm, 25th June, 2018

Cardinal Rule: Female Birds Sing Too

Many people assume only male birds do the singing. But females also sing in at least 660 species and perhaps many more. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Building a better microscope
4:57pm, 25th June, 2018

Building a better microscope

(Washington University in St. Louis) Microscopes are limited in what they can see because of their resolution, or their ability to see detail. The detail, or information, from the object is there, but some of it gets lost as the light reflecting off...
True nature of cells blamed in Alzheimer's revealed
4:19pm, 25th June, 2018

True nature of cells blamed in Alzheimer's revealed

(University of Virginia Health System) Immune cells commonly blamed in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases are actually precision cleaning machines protecting the central nervous system, new research from the University of Virginia...
Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record
3:41pm, 25th June, 2018

Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record

(Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)) In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator record for the fusion product. Moreover, first confirmation for...
NASA looks at Daniel's concentrated center
3:34pm, 25th June, 2018

NASA looks at Daniel's concentrated center

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The fourth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific season formed on Saturday, June 23. It strengthened into a tropical storm, and on June 25, 2018, NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyze the storm in...