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Science Happenings #1

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Self-tinting Windows

If you’re often blinded by the sunlight that shines through your car windshield, self-tinting windows offer welcome relief. But those already on the market take more than 20 minutes to go from clear to opaque, and they become less dark over time. Now, researchers have developed a new, cheaper smart window that dims in less than a minute, and can be switched on and off more than 5000 times without degrading. The prototypes are glass plates coated with a thin film of an alloy known as indium tin oxide, and outlined with a liquid mixture of copper and another metal—either lead or silver. When charged with electrical current, the mixture of dark metals spreads over the glass surface, blocking up to 95% of the surrounding light depending on your preferences.

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New type of mammal from the Jurass...

New type of mammal from the Jurassic Era

New fossils of a mammal found in the Jurassic Period indicates that it could fly aboved the dinosaurs and looked like a mix between a sugar glider and a sloth.

Instead, they glided far overhead, avoiding predatory dinosaurs on the ground — essentially flying squirrels of the Jurassic Period, from an extinct branch of mammals that probably still laid eggs.

Dr.Luo and his colleagues from the University of Chicago discovered two new species which lived over 200 million years ago. The fossils of the new species, Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon, are exquisitely preserved, revealing many details of their anatomy.

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Zombie Caterpillars

The Oak Egger Moth caterpillars had been attacked by a type of baculovirus—a family of pathogens that infect invertebrates, most often larval moth species. The baculovirus normally infects a host creature when it feeds on plants contaminated with the virus. This dissolves into the stomach, from which the virus gains access to the host’s body.

The virus causes the host insect to feed without resting and climb up to higher parts of tress where it eventually dissolves, allowing the virus to burst out onto leaves below, where it can infect other hosts. It is thought the baculovirus changes the way the host responds to light, encouraging them to climb up to their deaths.

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Real Life Transformer

A BMW vehicle has been converted to a real life transformer by a company called Letvision from the country of Turkey. The company calls its vehicles Letrons and the vehicle can actually drive with an electric engine. It is controlled by electronics and they believe to have a price point of two million dollars when sold to the public.

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