Three researchers from the University of Oxford and the South Iceland Nature Research Centre have found evidence of tool use by puffins—the first evidence of tool use by any seabird. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
With flattened bodies, grabbing forelegs and deciduous wings, deer keds do not look like your typical fly. These parasites of deer—which occasionally bite humans—are more widely distributed across the U.S. than previously ...
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2019
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Know that sickening feeling when you exit the grocery store and find your car has been banged up by a runaway shopping cart? It may one day be just a bad memory if auto body manufacturers make use of a new suite of tests ...
Materials Science
Sep 21, 2018
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SpaceX has put together a bloopers video showing "How NOT to land an orbital rocket booster."
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2017
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Neanderthals treating toothaches?
Archaeology
Jun 28, 2017
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King Tut hasn't been around for a few thousand years, but his power remains: after a botched repair job of the famed pharaoh's beard left scratches on his burial mask, Egyptian prosecutors have ordered eight museum workers ...
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2016
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(Phys.org)—An iPhone 5 with a layer of man-made sapphire covering its Gorilla Glass 2 screen has been demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. The purpose was to demonstrate how much more scratch resistant ...
(Phys.org)—Toray Industries has combined its no-scratch, no smudge technologies of 2012 and moved them up a notch with a recent demo at the nano tech 2013 exhibition in Japan. Toray showed off its touchscreen coating that ...
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won’t fit together because the cutting was not quite accurate ...
Engineering
Aug 8, 2012
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A new genre of plastics that mimic the human skin's ability to heal scratches and cuts offers the promise of endowing cell phones, laptops, cars and other products with self-repairing surfaces, scientists reported today. ...
Materials Science
Mar 26, 2012
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