Recent Posts in ‘Research’
Fish with “hands” discovered
Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a recent scientific review of the handfish family. Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were
Do fast elephants walk or run?
With their awkward, lumbering gait, elephants moving at high speed are not the most graceful of animals – but are they walking or running? Now scientists believe they have an answer: new research confirms that they do both – at the same time. By observing elephants moving across a hi-tech track, the team found the
Image of a single molecule captured for the first time
The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers. The physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar techniques – but the new method even shows up chemical bonds. Read the rest on BBC News
Why is “unlearning” an incorrect fact so hard?
Why is it that once you learn something incorrectly (say, 7 X 9 = 65), it seems you never can correct your recall? —J. Kruger, Cherry Hill, N.J. Cognitive psychologist Gordon H. Bower of Stanford University answers: Identifying, correcting and averting our memory errors are part of a cognitive process called memory monitoring. Incorrect associations
