{"id":32573,"date":"2011-03-13T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/daily-roundup-robotic-moths-cancer-battles-electricity-vending-machines-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:06","slug":"daily-roundup-robotic-moths-cancer-battles-electricity-vending-machines-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/daily-roundup-robotic-moths-cancer-battles-electricity-vending-machines-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Daily Roundup: Robotic Moths, Cancer Battles, Electricity Vending Machines | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2011\/03\/10\/daily-roundup-robotic-moths-cancer-battles-electricity-vending-machines\/bat-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27232\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6afcb_bat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"485\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>All bats aren&rsquo;t created equal: Using robotic moths, scientists discovered that bats emitting non-stop radar-like calls <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9418000\/9418535.stm\">catch more insects than their intermittent-emitting brethren<\/a>&mdash;and they do this by hearing the &ldquo;siren-like&rdquo; echoes of flying bugs. This suggest that bats evolved their echolocation abilities to increase their nightly catch.<br>Scientists reported that ovarian cancer survival rates have doubled in the UK in the past 30 years, a change&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/topnews.us\/content\/236436-ovarian-cancer-survival-rates-improve-uk\">they attribute to better treatments<\/a>, such as broader access to chemotherapy.<br>Cheetos, Snickers, and electricity: Japanese companies are rolling out the first vending machines <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ecocentric.blogs.time.com\/2011\/03\/09\/in-japan-vending-machines-to-charge-electric-cars-too\/\">capable of charging electric cars<\/a>, with plans of installing at least 10,000 by the end of the year.<\/p><p>Laugh your leg ulcers away: After a five-year study discovered that ultrasound&mdash;commonly used to treat leg ulcers&mdash;was ineffective, lead researcher Andrea Nelson told the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-12699016\">BBC<\/a>, Instead, lead researcher Professor Andrea Nelson said: &ldquo;The key to care with this group of patients is to stimulate blood flow back up the legs to the hear&hellip;.[and] &ldquo;believe it or not, having a really hearty chuckle can help&hellip; This is because laughing gets the ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/F8u-bxiFcX7n4RW_44bjNE9BjAA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6afcb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/F8u-bxiFcX7n4RW_44bjNE9BjAA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6afcb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6afcb_orZn13IY8Rc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6afcb_44UQpCJGr04\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All bats aren&rsquo;t created equal: Using robotic moths, scientists discovered that bats emitting non-stop radar-like calls catch more insects than their intermittent-emitting brethren&mdash;and they do this by hearing the &ldquo;siren-like&rdquo; echoes of flying bugs. This suggest that bats evolved their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/daily-roundup-robotic-moths-cancer-battles-electricity-vending-machines-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}