Category: 7. Science

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  • Loved in Malaysia, loathed elsewhere: scientists turn bedbugs into crime solvers

    Loved in Malaysia, loathed elsewhere: scientists turn bedbugs into crime solvers

    Under glaring laboratory lights, a research assistant extends his forearm and carefully inverts a mesh-topped container onto his skin to allow a wriggling mass of bedbugs to feed on his blood, all in the name of science.

    Long-loathed as itchy…

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  • This glowing particle in a laser trap may reveal how lightning begins

    This glowing particle in a laser trap may reveal how lightning begins

    Using lasers as precision tools to study how clouds become electrically active may sound futuristic, but researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have turned it into practical laboratory work. By capturing and…

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