Finding May Solve Riddle of Fatigue in Muscles
Scientists are reporting that they have determined why muscles get tired and devised, for mice, an experimental drug that can eliminate fatigue. nytimes.com
RoboSwift: feathered micro-aircraft flies, crashes
A micro-aircraft with feathered, morphing wings named RoboSwift ended its maiden flight by crashing into a tree. "It first flew through a tree and landed in another; it crashed," said David Lentink of Wageningen University in the Ne ... english.people.com.cn
Bone Shows Hominin Could Walk Upright
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A nearly six-million-year-old thigh bone may provide some of the earliest evidence for human ancestors walking on two legs. New measurements of the bone, discovered in Kenya in 2000, confirm that the hip and upper leg were adapted to walking upright, researchers report in this week's issue of the journal Science.... hosted.ap.org
"Lyuba" gives scientists glimpse of mammoth insides
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian scientists say they have obtained the most detailed pictures so far of the insides of a prehistoric animal, with the help of a baby mammoth called Lyuba found immaculately preserved in the Russian Arctic. feeds.reuters.com
New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Marine scientists in New Zealand on Tuesday were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts.... hosted.ap.org