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Offbeat: General
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The unexpected connection between brewing coffee and understanding turbulence      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Using unconventional statistical mechanics to understand fluid dynamics, a professor helped solve a ...

Biology: Zoology Offbeat: General Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Eurasian jays can use 'mental time travel' like humans, study finds      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Eurasian jays can remember incidental details of past events, which is characteristic of episodic me...

Offbeat: Computers and Math Offbeat: General
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Stilling the quantum dance of atoms      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have discovered a way to stop the quantum dance of atoms 'seen' by electrons in carbon-b...

Offbeat: General
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When there's money to lose, phone usage while driving drops      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers discovered that feedback plus cash incentives designed with insights from behavioral sci...

Offbeat: General Physics: Optics
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Moving objects precisely with sound      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using onl ...

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Chimpanzees gesture back and forth quickly like in human conversations      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

When people are having a conversation, they rapidly take turns speaking and sometimes even interrupt...

Offbeat: General
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Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists have restored the brain's waste-clearing process in aging mice, offering potential new tr...

Offbeat: General
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Study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new study on 'legalese' suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in l...

Mathematics: General Offbeat: Computers and Math Offbeat: General
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Unraveling the physics of knitting      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knit fabric response can be prog ...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Zoology Offbeat: General Offbeat: Plants and Animals
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Exploring consciousness with eureka moments      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

We all know what it's like when the penny suddenly drops. Animals too experience such moments of ins...