A batch of straw houses have gone on sale in the UK – and their manufacturers insist that unlike the home featured in classic nursery rhyme The Three Little Pigs, …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: May 7, 2015
Sleep loss impedes decision making in crisis, research shows
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•The difference between life and death in the operating room, on the battlefield or during a police shootout often comes down to the ability to adapt to the unexpected. Sleep …read more Source:: Science
Threats to soil productivity threaten food security
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•A group of leading soil scientists points out the precarious state of the world’s soil resources and the possible ramifications for human security. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists resolve debate over how many bacteria fight off invaders
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•Every inch of our body, inside and out, is oozing with bacteria. In fact, the human body carries 10 times the number of bacterial cells as human cells. Many are …read more Source:: Science
Record global carbon dioxide concentrations surpass 400 parts per million in March 2015
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•For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of this greenhouse gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March …read more Source:: Science
Geochemical process on Saturn’s moon Enceladus linked to life’s origin
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•New work has revealed the pH of water spewing from a geyser-like plume on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Their findings are an important step toward determining whether life could exist, or …read more Source:: Science
How climate science denial affects the scientific community
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•Climate change denial in public discourse may encourage climate scientists to over-emphasize scientific uncertainty and is also affecting how they themselves speak — and perhaps even think — about their …read more Source:: Science
Fresh evidence for how water reached Earth found in asteroid debris
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•New research strongly suggests that water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth. The quantity of water …read more Source:: Science
Polite trading with early Vikings? Scandinavian trade ‘triggered’ the Viking Age
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•Archaeologists suggest that the dawn of the Viking Age may have been much earlier — and less violent — than previously believed. The new study shows that the early Vikings …read more Source:: Science