Video: Can pheromones get you a date?
Is there such a thing as love at first smell?
Other
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Experimental wave-power buoy survives winter in Monterey Bay
In early January 2015, a team of MBARI engineers, led by Andy Hamilton, set out to sea to recover an experimental buoy that creates electrical energy from ocean waves. This power buoy had been deployed six miles southwest ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 10, 2015
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Study offers hint at a way to predict 'blow up' fires
(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with Harvard University has found that a simple experiment they conducted in their lab might lead to helping predict when fires in buildings or forests might be on the verge of becoming ...
Failure in real science is good – and different from phony controversies
Last March, the BICEP2 collaboration announced that they had used a microwave telescope at the South Pole to detect primordial gravitational waves. These tiny ripples in spacetime would be the first proof of the theory known ...
General Physics
Feb 10, 2015
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How can Mars sometimes be warmer than Earth?
Remember a few weeks ago when the weather on Mars was making the news? At the time, parts of the Red Planet was experiencing temperatures that were actually warmer than parts of the US. Naturally, there were quite a few skeptics. ...
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2015
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US continues global leadership to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
In its 2015 biennial report to Congress on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), NOAA has identified six nations—Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nigeria, Nicaragua, and Portugal—as engaging in the practice. IUU ...
Ecology
Feb 10, 2015
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Optimized application of high intensity focused ultrasound
The field of nonlinear acoustics is currently receiving a lot of attention, thanks to applications focused on the improvement of ultrasonic cleaning, ultrasonic welding, sonochemistry, or thermotherapy. Lithotripsy – the ...
Mathematics
Feb 10, 2015
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Archaeologists and veterans to explore what lies beneath Waterloo Battlefield, 200 years on
An international team of battlefield experts, led by the University of Glasgow's Dr Tony Pollard, will start work at farm buildings of Hougoumont in April 2015.
Archaeology
Feb 10, 2015
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Study reveals inner workings of cricket teams
Do batsmen put personal glory before their team? A study by QUT researchers found cricket batsmen who were close to reaching personal milestones were likely to alter their strategy in a way which, at first sight, seems detrimental ...
Mathematics
Feb 10, 2015
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Researchers have traced the evolution of glowing shrimp
Florida International University researchers have traced the evolution of bioluminescence in deep-sea shrimps.
Evolution
Feb 10, 2015
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