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A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has shown that some shorebirds use their long, thin beaks in a tweezering motion to make prey-bearing water droplets rise upwards so they can be consumed.
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via Telegraph @ 16:35 15th May
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via News-Medical.Net @ 0:43 3rd Jun
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Birds can beat gravity in ways other than flying — some waders can also make food travel upwards by quickly opening and closing their beaks.
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via Nature @ 19:40 15th May
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Birds can beat gravity in ways other than flying — some waders can also make food travel upwards by quickly opening and closing their beaks.
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via Nature @ 19:40 15th May
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cathector sends along a story from SpaceWeather.com on the discovery of water ice on Mars. "Scientists have figured out the mysterious white substance unearthed by NASA's Phoenix lander on Mars. It's frozen water. The breakthrough came last week when Phoenix's stereo camera caught the substance in the act of disappearing. Bathed in martian sunlight for four days, the white substance sublimated — i.e., it transformed from solid to gas without passing through the liquid state. This is how water behaves on Mars.... Some readers have asked, how do we know the white substance is not frozen CO2 (dry ice) instead of frozen water? Answer: Phoenix's landing site is too warm for dry ice. The average daily temperature is about -70 F while dry ice requires temperatures lower than about -109 F.
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via Slashdot @ 20:22 23rd Jun
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via Articles Bridge @ 8:00 20th Jun
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It's not always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high price raising someone else's chick. How hosts distinguish impostor eggs from their own has long puzzled scientists. The problem remained largely unsolved while looking at it through our own eyes. It was only when people started thinking from the birds' perspective that they began to understand how hosts recognise a cuckoo egg in the nest. Marcel Honza from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic explains that birds see UV wavelengths that are well outside our own visual range. Knowing that many bird eggs reflect UV wavelengths, Honza wondered whether altering the reflected UV spectrum of an egg would affect a bird's ability to recognise it as foreign and reject it.
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via EurekAlert! @ 17:01 15th Jul
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via One Stop Articles @ 5:38 28th Jun
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via The Article Net @ 22:08 19th Jul
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Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels. This is the first time researchers were able to get a snapshot of the water inside the carbon nanotubes.
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via Science Daily @ 13:58 27th Jun
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Smivs writes "US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed.The Moon is thought to have been created in a violent collision between Earth and another planet-sized object. Scientists thought the heat from this impact had vaporised all the water. But a new study in Nature magazine shows water was delivered to the lunar surface from the interior in volcanic eruptions three billion years ago. This suggests that water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence."
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via Slashdot @ 12:31 10th Jul
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Right now, the crews on board the International Space Station consist of three people. But by late next year, the crew size will grow to six. That means more food, more water and ultimately more waste. But NASA has been working on a recycling system to transform urine and other liquid wastes into water that can be used in space for drinking, food preparation and washing. Agency officials say the water from the system will be cleaner than U.S. tap water. Not only does this help manage wastes on board the station, but its also a cost-saving measure. Water is heavy and launching it on board the shuttle or Progress re-supply ship is expensive.
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via Universe Today @ 22:56 17th May
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via Articles Bridge @ 8:00 20th Jun
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It's not always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high price raising someone else's chick. How hosts distinguish impostor eggs from their own has long puzzled scientists. The problem remained largely unsolved while looking at it through our own eyes. It was only when people started thinking from the birds' perspective that they began to understand how hosts recognise a cuckoo egg in the nest.
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via Science Daily @ 5:33 22nd Jul
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Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels.
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via PhysOrg.com @ 5:50 26th Jun
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As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has now explained exactly how some shorebirds use their long, thin beaks to defy gravity and transport food into their mouths.
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via Science Daily @ 9:09 16th May
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Some birds employ a gravity-defying trick to coax water up their beaks. It turns out the birds are exploiting the same effect that makes raindrops stick to windows.
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via New Scientist @ 16:33 15th May
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Even in the clearest, bluest sky on Earth, there is still water vapor in our atmosphere. If you could condense all the water vapor out of the atmosphere above you, it would form a layer of water two centimeters deep. On Mars today, there is also water vapor in the atmosphere but it would create a layer just 10 micrometers thick.
in Space Science
via Red Orbit @ 18:23 14th May
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Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels.
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via Azonano @ 5:49 26th Jun
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via American Chronicle @ 19:18 17th May
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Even though I learned how little fresh water there is on Earth sometime in elementary school, graphics like the one on the right still amaze me. It shows the distribution of water from all sources on Earth. All those mighty rivers? They needed a mere 0.04 percent of the water on Earth to cradle civilizations.
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via Wired News @ 19:38 10th Jun
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LIVERMORE: Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels.
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via The Hindu @ 17:38 27th Jun
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Livermore, CA - Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels.
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via Photonics Online @ 9:35 4th Jul
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Livermore, CA - Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels.
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via Water Online @ 9:25 4th Jul
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SINCE the Viking orbiters beamed back the first tantalising images of water-cut features on Mars in the 1970s, NASA's mantra for the Red Planet has been simple: "follow the water". Working out when Mars had liquid water on its surface, and where that water went, they reason, will provide vital clues about whether Mars could once have harboured life, and whether life could cling on today.
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via New Scientist @ 13:58 21st May
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