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Researchers at Aalto University have devised a way to convert tiny drops of water into encoded digital information, building a simple computer out of just water droplets and a water-repellant surface. A new study in the journal Advanced Materials demonstrates that, using a hydrophobic surface that causes water to bead up and roll off, researchers can follow the trails of individual water droplets along paths in the surface. That predictability allowed researchers to build simple computers like a memory device that tracks the droplets and encodes them as bits of information, with drops on one track representing ones and drops on the other representing zeroes. They even demonstrated machines that can use the technology to complete basic Boolean operations.

There have apparently been stories and folktales of weird sounds associated with the beautiful, mindbending spectacle of the Northern Lights for quite some time. However, no scientific basis for any auditory component has yet been connected to the Aurora Borealis. That is, until new results from a 12-year long study has finally captured a mysterious clapping sound on tape, and tracked its origin to open sky.

Researchers at the University of Tampere and the Aalto University, Finland, have discovered that the human brain processes nude human bodies differently than it processes clothed human bodies. The researchers also found that a male's brain reacts much more quickly to the nude female form, while the female's brain reacts equally to the nude form of either gender. How'd the researchers go about conducting this study? They showed the participants nude pics, of course. There was also science involved.