Over half of the healthy population exhibits leg shaking, a repetitive and rhythmic movement of the legs while seated. Some brush it off as just a habit, but most of the time, there’s a reason for it, ranging from anxiety to medications.
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Are you a computer scientist who is secretly an artist? A biomedical engineer with a love for economics? Maybe an accountant with an interest in physics?
“I’m sure everyone knows that spiders make silk and have venom, but they also fly, play songs, walk on water, solve puzzles, and live everywhere, from underwater to the tallest mountain peaks on Earth,” said James O’Hanlon, author of Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders, which is a book about the remarkable lives of one of the most misunderstood and maligned creatures on the planet: the spider.
About 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series featured a technology called a “warp drive,” which allowed space travel at speeds much faster than light.
Can an object somewhat behave like both a planet and a star, especially when it is forming? Turns out, the answer is yes!
Science has advanced one step closer towards figuring out how certain cancer cells work. Researchers at ETH Zurich demonstrated that skin cancer cells can transfer their mitochondria, the cell compartments that provide energy, to neighboring healthy connective tissue cells (fibroblasts) for the survival and growth of tumors.
Some dogs may learn in ways similar to how we, humans, did as infants! A team of animal behavior experts demonstrated that gifted dogs can apply the meaning of learned labels like “pull” and “fetch,” even to toys they had never seen before.
A brand-new cosmic process has been added to the collection of special moments witnessed in science: a team of astronomers captured the first specks of planet-forming material, hot minerals just beginning to solidify, around an infant star called HOPS-315.