Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now http://digg.com/source/nature.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:58:35 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:58:35 +0000 15 Insect-inspired device achieves panoramic view and sharp focus at any distance. http://www.nature.com/news/digital-camera-gives-a-bug-s-eye-view-1.12914 http://on.digg.com/10sNg1d Wed, 01 May 2013 17:35:42 +0000 First attempt to extract methane from frozen hydrates far beneath the ocean shows promise. http://www.nature.com/news/japanese-test-coaxes-fire-from-ice-1.12858 http://on.digg.com/ZKrRBA Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:41:33 +0000 Study reveals diminishing returns in attractiveness of larger-than-average genitalia. http://www.nature.com/news/bigger-not-always-better-for-penis-size-1.12770 http://on.digg.com/10Mwj5k Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:54:29 +0000 http://www.nature.com/news/astrophysics-fire-in-the-hole-1.12726 http://on.digg.com/10qvxLa Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:51:53 +0000 Why did the Russian meteor explode so spectacularly? http://www.nature.com/news/the-death-of-the-chebarkul-meteor-1.12540 http://on.digg.com/YtSex4 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:20:55 +0000 The brains of two rats on different continents have been made to act in tandem. When the first, in Brazil, uses its whiskers to choose between two stimuli, an implant records its brain activity and signals to a similar device in the brain of a rat in the United States. http://www.nature.com/news/intercontinental-mind-meld-unites-two-rats-1.12522 http://on.digg.com/YJbcAF Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:14:08 +0000 The drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent may lie scattered beneath the waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests. http://www.nature.com/news/long-lost-continent-found-under-the-indian-ocean-1.12487 http://on.digg.com/YuLM5K Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:30:43 +0000 Say the word 'rutabaga', and you have just performed a complex dance with many body parts — lips, tongue, jaw and larynx — in a flash of time. But what makes it so difficult to say it again? http://www.nature.com/news/why-tongue-twisters-are-hard-to-say-1.12471 http://on.digg.com/YANVic Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:47:28 +0000 Tiny amounts of a common anti-anxiety medication — which ends up in wastewater after patients pass it into their urine — significantly alters fish behaviour, according to a new study. http://www.nature.com/news/anti-anxiety-drug-found-in-rivers-makes-fish-more-aggressive-1.12434 http://on.digg.com/VXiVqQ Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:04:18 +0000 When influenza hit early and hard in the United States this year, it quietly claimed an unacknowledged victim: one of the cutting-edge techniques being used to monitor the outbreak. http://www.nature.com/news/when-google-got-flu-wrong-1.12413 http://on.digg.com/Z9Zj9t Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:07:53 +0000 A recently hatched zebrafish is swimming upriver for the first time. Its big round eyes, bulging on the front of its eyelash-sized body, scan the surroundings. Suddenly, it sees the scenery flying forwards as a gentle current pushes it backwards. The fish flicks its tail to try to stay in place. Or so it thinks. In reality, the baby fish is paralysed and suspended in a water-filled Petri dish by glass pipettes. http://www.nature.com/news/mapping-brain-networks-fish-bowl-neuroscience-1.12272 http://on.digg.com/UTVJvb Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:45:23 +0000 Unusual nucleic-acid structure may have role in regulating some genes. http://www.nature.com/news/four-strand-dna-structure-found-in-cells-1.12253 http://on.digg.com/WPQKJF Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:41:35 +0000 It may sound less likely than hell freezing over, but physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-absolute-zero temperature for the first time. http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146 http://on.digg.com/X3FxHK Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:26:32 +0000 The world is starting to win the war against tuberculosis, but drug-resistant forms pose a new threat. http://www.nature.com/news/infectious-disease-tb-s-revenge-1.12115 http://on.digg.com/Twim9z Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:50:31 +0000 Neither pleasant nor foul-smelling, and in no way overwhelming: this is how researchers sum up the smell they are calling “olfactory white.” http://www.nature.com/news/the-whiff-of-white-could-hide-strong-odours-1.11846 http://on.digg.com/SZwUv2 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:49:20 +0000 Tyrannosaurus tore the head off armoured prey to reach the tender neck meat. http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-eat-a-triceratops-1.11650 http://on.digg.com/StIT4e Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:45:33 +0000 Researchers in Japan can predict certain features of dreams by looking at the brain activity of sleeping volunteers. http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-read-dreams-1.11625 http://on.digg.com/RHV2Sq Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:47:20 +0000 A study of papers’ histories from submission to publication unearths unexpected patterns. http://www.nature.com/news/rejection-improves-eventual-impact-of-manuscripts-1.11583 http://on.digg.com/Pqk24D Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:29:28 +0000 The evidence is in every breath of air, but answers are harder to come by. Xenon, the second heaviest of the chemically inert noble gases, has gone missing. http://www.nature.com/news/the-mysterious-case-of-the-missing-noble-gas-1.11564 http://on.digg.com/SS1ODS Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:27:26 +0000 Usually science opens doors to new and fascinating opportunities. Other times they slam them in our faces and ruin the hopes of our favorite movies becoming reality. This study would be the latter. http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555 http://on.digg.com/TsYCEE Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:11:50 +0000