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Thursday April 11th 2013 - St Stanislas
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Daily News… BALKAN FOLKLORE HELPS PUTS BITE ON BEDBUGS It’s been frozen, baked, suffocated and sprayed with toxins... and each time the bedbug bounces back, leaving tiny bite marks on legs or arms where it takes a blood meal. But thanks to an unusual combination of Balkan folklore and nanoscale science, the pesky critter may have met its match. In a journal of Britain’s prestigious Royal Society, US entomologists on Tuesday reported progress in a quest to emulate anti-bedbug defence found in the hairs of leaves from the kidney-bean plant, known by its Latin name of Phaseolus vulgaris. In rural Bulgaria, Serbia and other parts of the Balkans, these leaves are scattered on the floor next to the bed, snagging the blood-sucking little parasites during their night-time forays. The following day, the bug-encrusted leaves are burned to exterminate the pests. Eager to find how the trick works, the scientists used high-speed video cameras and scanning electron microscopy to study lab bedbugs which had been coaxed into trotting across a bed of leaves. The investigators were surprised to find that the bedbugs were not trapped by some Velcrolike mechanism which entangled their legs or bodies. Instead, they discovered that the leaves are studded with extremely sharp points called trichomes that pierce the bedbugs’ legs at critical locations. Impaled on several legs at the same time, the bugs are doomed. The next step was to copy the leaves, using them as a template for biomimickry. The goal is to make a bedbug barrier that is durable and can be used on any surface, not just the floor. In terms of size and geometry, the imitation prototype closely resembles the original. But it needs further work before it can be turned into a useful trap, for the bedbugs are only harpooned temporarily, the biologists admit.
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International News… PATTI SMITH MEETS POPE FRANCIS US punk rocker Patti Smith shook hands with Pope Francis at a general audience in St Peter’s Square on Wednesday, saying afterwards she found the new pontiff «very interesting» and «liked him a lot». Smith and the pope appeared to exchange a few words in the square and the pope was seen laughing. Smith, who is not a Catholic but followed the conclave in the news, said the pope had shown courage in naming himself after St Francis of Assisi. The singer, who is in Rome for a series of concerts, said the saint represented humility, the renunciation of materialism and a love of nature.
WANT TO BE A SPORTS STAR ? The shape of a man’s face can help predict his sporting acumen, according to a study on Wednesday that found Japanese baseball players whose faces were relatively broad rather than long were most likely to hit a home run. University of London psychologists measured the facial width-to-height ratio, or fWHR, of 104 batters in Japan’s professional Central League Pennant who played in the 2011 and 2012 seasons. In both seasons, the players who scored the most home runs had the highest fWHR, said the study in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
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