We’ve all experienced “phantom traffic jams” that arise without any apparent cause. Researchers recently showed that we’d have fewer if we made one small change to how we drive: no more tailgating.
Read Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171214092319.htm Much as a frame provides structural support for a house and the chassis provides strength and shape for a car, a team of engineers believes they have a way to create the structural framework for growing living tissue using an off-the-shelf 3-D printer.
Read Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171212125104.htm In intelligent persons, some brain regions interact more closely, while others de-couple themselves
Date: November 22, 2017 Source: Goethe University Frankfurt Summary: Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent persons? A new study supports this assumption. In intelligent persons, certain brain regions are more strongly involved in the flow of information between brain regions, while other brain regions are less engaged. Read Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171122103552.htm Neuroscientists have shown how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain. The research details changes that take place in both sides of the brain used to control the amputated limb and the remaining, intact limb. The results show both areas can create new connections to learn how to control the device, even several years after an amputation.
Read Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171127135811.htm “Blue Planet II” aired an episode on Sunday in the U.K. that featured incredible footage of one resourceful octopus.
In a GIF that BBC Earth tweeted on Sunday, an octopus ― which had apparently built a suit of armor out of shells ― evades a hungry pyjama shark trying to eat it. Footage of the clever trick received some time on the front page of Reddit on Monday. Read Article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/octopus-outsmarts-hungry-shark-by-building-armor-made-of-shells_us_5a1c8510e4b0e2ddcbb2130b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 There’s a good reason it’s so difficult for photographers and film crews to capture the elusive snow leopard in the wild. The animal’s not only a master of stealth, it also sports a patterned fur coat that turns it nearly invisible in its natural habitat. Can you find the big cat sneaking up on its prey in this amazing photo by wildlife photographer Inger Vandyke?
Read Article: https://sploid.gizmodo.com/can-you-find-the-perfectly-camouflaged-snow-leopard-hid-1820723797?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow CLEVELAND, OHIO--In an underdog city, at an underdog NASA lab, researchers are thinking hard about an undeservedly neglected planet. Venus is Earth's cousin, closest in composition and size, but for decades it has remained veiled. NASA hasn't sent a mission there since 1989; more recent European and Japanese orbiters have made halting progress that stops largely at the planet's thick sulfur clouds. No craft has touched down since 1985, when the last of a series of advanced Soviet landers clad in armored pressure vessels endured a couple hours before succumbing to the deep-ocean pressure and furnacelike temperature of the planet's surface. The baleful conditions and lack of funding have made Venus, Earth's closest neighbor, feel more distant than ever. That is, except here.
Read Article: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/armed-tough-computer-chips-scientists-are-ready-return-hell-venus A fascinating article about a new satellite which will greatly improve weather predictions.11/19/2017
In the wee hours of Saturday, a fastidiously clean scanning machine named VIIRS launched into orbit on a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, just one instrument outfitting a next-generation weather satellite. The Visible Infrared Radiometer Suite is a washing machine-sized sensor, built to capture light and other waves that bounce off the surface of Earth. It collects those reflections, turning them into data about our planet, the oceans, land and vegetation cover, ice caps, volcanic plumes, and global temperatures—allowing accurate weather forecasts, wildfire and fishing fleet tracking, and climate monitoring.
Read Article: https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-noaa-jpss-next-gen-satellite-will-scan-for-storms-like-never-before/ MINNEAPOLIS — To destroy plastic, caterpillars go with their gut bacteria.
Caterpillars that nibble through polyethylene plastic cultivate a diverse community of digestive bacteria that process the plastic, researchers reported November 13 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America. Dousing old plastic in a similar mix of bacteria might speed the breakdown of the persistent pollutant. Polyethylene is widely used to make plastic bags and other packaging materials, but it hangs around in landfills for decades, perhaps even centuries. Recently, scientists identified several species of caterpillars that appear to eat and digest the plastic, breaking it down. But dumping old shopping bags into a den of caterpillars isn’t really a practical large-scale strategy for getting rid of the plastic. So to figure out the insects’ secret, researchers fed polyethylene to the larvae of pantry moths, Plodia interpunctella, and then looked at the bacteria in the caterpillars’ guts. Read Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/key-breaking-down-plastic-may-be-caterpillar-guts If you want to drive a car or take out a mortgage to buy a house, you’ll be required to buy insurance. Insurance protects both you and others from calamity and makes it possible to take risks that would otherwise be too great. If you want to drive a car or take out a mortgage to buy a house, you’ll be required to buy insurance. Insurance protects both you and others from calamity and makes it possible to take risks that would otherwise be too great. Lenders could not afford to advance us hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a home if they knew that if the home burned down, we would simply walk away and stop paying our mortgage because few of us would have the savings to rebuild our homes. And getting into a car accident without insurance would potentially leave the drivers of all the involved vehicles without a way to get to work and with no money to pay for medical treatment.
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