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3 Options for Coping with Social Anxiety

By Guest PostJuly 30, 2016General, Health, Scienceadam cook, addiction, addictionhub, asd, coping, meditation, ptsd, self medication, social anxiety, website, yoga

Social anxiety can be a crippling disability to live with. It can interfere with your ability to make friends, find romantic connections, and even leave your home. Learning to cope properly is important because many people resort to self-medication, which leads to addiction. Healthy ways to manage anxiety come in many forms, and each person needs to find what works for them. With that in mind, we share a few options for people to cope with social anxiety in healthy ways. (more…)

World’s Shallowest Slow-Motion Earthquakes Detected Off New Zealand’s Coast

By Guest PostJuly 29, 2016Sciencehobitss network, laura wallace, magnitude 9, new zealand, offshore subduction zone, shallowest, slow motion earthquakes, slow slip events, spahr webb, tohoku oki earthquake

AUSTIN, Texas — Research published in the May 6 edition of Science indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or “slow-slip events” can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that also moves in large, tsunami-generating earthquakes. The finding has important implications for assessing tsunami hazards. The discovery was made by conducting the first-ever detailed investigation of centimeter-level seafloor movement at an offshore subduction zone. (more…)

Polymer ‘pens’

By Guest PostJuly 28, 2016Scienceblock copolymer, dupont scientists, kai qi, nanostructure, polymer pens, thomas epps

Epps, DuPont receive NSF funding to develop new approach to manufacture nanostructured arrays

Miniaturization of electronic devices has been ongoing since well before the first room-sized computer was built more than half a century ago. A hand-held smart phone now holds far more data than that behemoth of the late 1940s, but continuing this trend toward tiny has become more challenging. (more…)

Werkzeug oder kein Werkzeug? Das ist hier die Frage

By Guest PostJuly 27, 2016Nature, Sciencealice auersperg, bene croy, goffini kakadu, isabelle laumer, marktsituation, marshmallow experiment, thomas bugnyar, werkzeug

Kakadus denken ökonomisch und treffen Entscheidungen je nach “Marktsituation”

Flexibler Werkzeuggebrauch bei Tieren steht in enger Verbindung mit intelligenten mentalen Prozessen wie zum Beispiel die Fähigkeit Handlungen zu planen. KognitionsbiologInnen von der Universität Wien und der Veterinärmedizinischen Universität Wien erforschten Entscheidungsfähigkeit und Werkzeuggebrauch bei einer indonesischen Kakadu-Art und fanden heraus, dass die Tiere offenbar sorgfältig abwägen: Sofort verfügbares Futter fressen oder doch lieber warten und ein Werkzeug verwenden, um damit an ein anderes Futter zu kommen? Dabei hinterfragen die Vögel auch Details wie Qualitätsunterschiede beim Futter oder den Sinn des Einsatzes von Werkzeugen.

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A new way to get electricity from magnetism

By Guest PostJuly 25, 2016Sciencechristoph boehme, effect, electricity, flow of electricity, inverse spin hall, magnetism, new way, spin electronics, spintronics, valy vardeny

‘Inverse spin Hall effect’ works in several organic semiconductors

By showing that a phenomenon dubbed the “inverse spin Hall effect” works in several organic semiconductors – including carbon-60 buckyballs – University of Utah physicists changed magnetic “spin current” into electric current. The efficiency of this new power conversion method isn’t yet known, but it might find use in future electronic devices including batteries, solar cells and computers. (more…)

Das Ei, das aus der Kälte kam – Wie sich Tigermücken für den Winter rüsten

By Guest PostJuly 25, 2016Health, Scienceaedes albopictus, aljoscha Kress, asiatische tigermuecke, ei, james gathany

Die Asiatische Tigermücke breitet sich von Südeuropa Richtung Norden aus und überträgt Viren, die für den Menschen gefährlich sind. Gebremst wird sie nur durch die kühleren Temperaturen in Nordeuropa. Um mehr über ihre Mechanismen der Kältetoleranz zu erfahren, haben WissenschaflerInnen des Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrums und der Goethe-Universität Eier dieser Plagegeister unter dem Elektronenmikroskop analysiert. Die Ergebnisse der jüngst im „Journal of Vector Ecology“ erschienenen Studie sollen helfen, die zukünftige Verbreitung der Mücken besser zu modellieren. (more…)

Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter–gatherer cooperation

By Guest PostJuly 25, 2016Scienceagta, camps, daniel smith, evolution of mankind, filipino hunter, food sharing, gatherers, ruth mace, ucl anthropology

Food-sharing is more prevalent in stable hunter-gatherer camps, shows new UCL research that sheds light on the evolutionary roots of human cooperation. (more…)

Hunting for Dark Matter’s ‘Hidden Valley’

By Guest PostJuly 24, 2016Sciencealan lightman, bullet cluster, dark matter, dark matter particles, galaxy cluster, hidden valley, kathryn zurek, pamela anomaly, sensitivity limits, theoretical physicist, wimps

Berkeley Lab’s Kathryn Zurek wants to make sure we’re looking in the right places.

Kathryn Zurek realized a decade ago that we may be searching in the wrong places for clues to one of the universe’s greatest unsolved mysteries: dark matter. Despite making up an estimated 85 percent of the total mass of the universe, we haven’t yet figured out what it’s made of. (more…)

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