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#Coolest Science Stories of the WeekScience brought us walking sharks artistic chimps and even the first human mind-meld?</Don't miss these!</A new species of walking shark has been discovered in a reef off a remote Indonesian island.</These sharks don't always rely on walking to move about often they only appear to touch the seafloor as they swim using their pectoral and dorsal fins in a walklike gait said Fahmi (who only goes by one name) a shark researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Science who wasn't involved in the study describing the species. In the video of the newfound walking shark however the animal is clearly touching the seafloor.</Full Story & Video:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39331-new-walking-shark-species. html target=blank>New'Walking'Shark Species Caught on Video</a p>A training text used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class has been deciphered revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and what it took to truly become a master swordsman.</The text is calledBugei no jowhich means Introduction to Martial arts and is dated to the 15th year of Tenpo (1844). Written for samurai students about to learnTakenouchi-ryåa martial arts system it would have prepared students for the challenges awaiting them.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39280-19th-century-samurai-text-deciphered. html target=blank>19th-century Samurai Training Text Deciphered</a p>The first complete living model of the developing human brain has been created in a lab dish.</Researchers grew human stem cells in an environment that encouraged them to form pea-size gobs of brain tissue which developed into distinct brain tissues including a cerebral cortex and retina.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39247-mini-human brains-grown-in-dish. html target=blank>Mini Human'brains'Grown in a Dish</a p>An unusual painting technique even among chimpanzees has won the popular vote; Brent a 37-year-old male chimpanzee paints only with his tongue. His piece a cluster of smudges and speckles garnered the most votes in a chimpanzee art contest the Humane Society of the United states (HSUS) announced Thursday (Aug 29.</The judge's selection made by primatologist Jane Goodall went to Cheetah a former laboratory chimpanzee who used an autumnal palette dominated by yellow orange and red.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39336-tongue-painting-chimp-wins-art-contest. html target=blank>Tongue-Painting Chimp Takes 1st Place in Art Contest</a p>Scientists have created a microscopic sphere and set it awhirl at a blistering 600 million rotations per minute.</The sphere which rotates 500000 times faster than the average washing machine is the fastest-spinning object ever made.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39275-fastest-manmade-spinning-object-made. html target=blank>Fastest-Spinning Man-made Object Created</a p>If a snake eats a monkey in the forest and no one sees it does it make a difference? New evidence suggests that it does.</For the first time scientists have witnessed a boa constrictor attacking and eating a howler monkey. The finding and boa-eating-monkey video is noteworthy since reports of primates being eaten by predators are relatively rare according to the study published this month in the journal Primates.</Full Story & Video:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39172-boa-constrictor-eats-howler-monkey. html target=blank>Boa constrictor Seen Eating Howler monkey in a First</a p>One man has controlled the movements of another person by sending brain signals via the Internet.</The demonstration is the first example of two human brains directly interacting.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39265-first-human-mind-meld-created. html target=blank>First Human Mind-Meld Created</a p>The concept of a time machine typically conjures up images of an implausible plot device used in a few too many science-fiction storylines. But according to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity which explains how gravity operates in the universe real-life time travel isn't just a vague fantasy.</Traveling forward in time is an uncontroversial possibility according to Einstein's theory. In fact physicists have been able to send tiny particles called muons which are similar to electrons forward in time by manipulating the gravity around them. That's not to say the technology for sending humans 100 years into the future will be available anytime soon though.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39159-time-travel-with-wormhole. html target=blank>Wormhole Is Best Bet for Time machine Astrophysicist Says</a p>Crocodiles and alligators are infamous carnivores but it turns out they do not live on meat alone scientists have discovered unexpectedly that these predators occasionally snack on fruit as well.</These surprising findings suggest crocodilians which include alligators crocodiles and their close relatives might via seeds they poop out or regurgitate act a bit like Johnny Appleseed helping forests grow by planting seeds across their territories.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39198-crocodiles-alligators-eat-fruit. html target=blank>Crikey! Crocodiles and Alligators Snack on Fruit</a p>Ancient trash heaps in Bolivia used for millennia now suggest humans explored the western Amazon as early as 10000 years ago researchers say.</This discovery adds to the evidence that people made it deep into The americas much earlier than previously thought scientists added.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39269-ancient-trash-heaps-reveal-human-settlement. html target=blank>Humans Landed on'Treasure Island'Earlier Than Thought</A t

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