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Learn how to counter fake money from butterfly wings
Strange optical effects on butterfly wings can help people encrypt information on banknotes or other precious objects to prevent counterfeiting.
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Decode the fragile genome
The identification of more than 800 genes involved in the practice of singing of manholes can shed light on human language disorders.
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Desert ants smell the way back to the nest
When lost in the desert, people often hang around in a deadlock circle. This prompted scientists to ask how the desert living organisms could find their way without a ma…
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Exploiting energy from intestinal bacteria
For the first time in the history of science, American biochemists have learned how to utilize intestinal bacteria to produce energy.
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 4)
Adult stem cells are very different from those separated from embryos or fetuses and are present in developed tissues, for example in animals or humans after being born.…
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 5)
The most promising application of stem cells comes from the ability to transform into many different mature cells with full functionality. Stem cells are a potential sou…
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Last part)
Controversy on embryonic stem cell research involves one of the fundamental problems that the whole society cares about in the debate about avoiding pregnancy, abortion…
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 2)
Stem cells are one of the most fascinating areas of biology today. But like so many science areas that are growing, research on stem cells raises questions both scientif…
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 3)
We all start life from a single cell, called zygote, that forms after fertilization. Zygote divides into two cells; every cell in it divides and goes on like that ...
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The bee's dance breaks the cultural barrier
An international team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time that Asian and European honey bees can learn to understand each other's dance language despite e…
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LEARN ABOUT ORIGINAL CELL (Part 1)
For centuries scientists have known that some animals can regenerate lost parts of their bodies. We humans also share this characteristic, like the starfish. Although ou…
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Learn the origin of sunflowers
Global warming can affect one of the world's major oilseed crops - sunflower. Understanding the genetic information of early sunflowers is key to improving future harves…
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Do butterflies remember what they learned when they were deep?
Butterflies are known for their ability to change incredible shapes from caterpillars to adult winged butterflies. In this fundamental change, butterflies not only trans…
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Learn about smart design
Imagine you find a robot-like planet. They have been programmed so that robots look exactly like the raw materials. And imagine next, there was a scientist visiting from…
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New discovery: Cockroaches also know learning!
Japanese scientists have just published an interesting finding: cockroaches also have memory and can be taught to produce saliva in the same manner as dogs in experiment…