On June 11, 2014, the sun erupted with its third X-class flare in two days. The flare was classified as an X1.0 and it peaked at 5:06 a.m. EDT. Images of the flare were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. All three ...
Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2014
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A team of researchers at Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium has found that desert ants (Cataglyphis savignyi) have a means for binding their spermatozoa into bundles that, by working together as a team, are able to ...
For 40 years, America's national marine sanctuaries have worked to protect sites ranging from a Civil War shipwreck to coral reefs and tiny atolls. Today, NOAA announced that beginning this week the American public can now ...
Environment
Jun 11, 2014
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Tomography enables the interior of a vast range of objects to be depicted in 3D – from cellular structures to technical appliances. Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) have now devised a method that opens ...
Nanophysics
Jun 11, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team made up of researchers from several European countries has used DNA analysis to better understand how it was that King Penguins came to breed on the Crozet Islands. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced development of lane-departure warning technology that can be applied to a vehicle-mounted wide-angle camera as a drive recorder to promote safer driving.
Engineering
Jun 11, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A diverse team of psychology researchers with affiliations in several countries has found that while two year old children are able to produce an effective and novel action after witnessing a correlative event, ...
Bees pollinate plants in return for nectar, ants protect trees in return for housing, even our own bodies house microbial partners that help us digest our food. These types of beneficial relationships, called mutualisms, ...
Biotechnology
Jun 11, 2014
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The remarkable properties of glasses are due to their dynamical arrested state in which relaxations occur on time scales too large to be observed, or so it was believed. Now researchers have discovered the existence of unexpected ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 11, 2014
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Soybeans have been called the "wonder crop" for all the products that can be made from the versatile legume—including cooking oil, tofu, livestock feed, and biodiesel, to name just a few. But America's second-largest field ...
Biotechnology
Jun 11, 2014
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