WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The bacterium Yersinia pestis has inflicted almost unimaginable misery upon humankind over the centuries, killing an estimated 200 million or more people and triggering horrific plagues in …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Month: June 2015
New model of cosmic stickiness favors ‘Big Rip’ demise of universe
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•Mathematicians and physicists have come up with a new approach to calculate cosmic viscosity and the formulation favors the ‘Big Rip’ scenario for the end of the universe. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists program solitary yeast cells to say ‘hello’ to one another
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•Researchers have produced cell-to-cell communication in baker’s yeast — a first step in learning to build multicellular organisms or artificial organs from scratch. …read more Source:: Science
Eye color may be linked to alcohol dependence
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•People with blue eyes might have a greater chance of becoming alcoholics, according to a unique new study by genetic researchers. …read more Source:: Science
Repeated courses of antibiotics may profoundly alter children’s development
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•A new animal study adds to growing evidence that multiple courses of commonly used antibiotics may have a significant impact on children’s development. Female mice treated with two classes of …read more Source:: Science
Exit dinosaurs, enter fishes
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•A pair of paleobiologists have determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates — ray-finned fishes — began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided …read more Source:: Science
Smell fingerprints? Each person may have a unique sense of smell
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•Scientists have developed an ‘olfactory fingerprint’ test that may do more than just identify individuals. …read more Source:: Science
Seeing a supernova in a new light
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•Type Ia supernovae are the ‘standard candles’ astrophysicists use to chart distance in the Universe. But are these dazzling exploding stars truly all the same? To answer this, scientists must …read more Source:: Science
Dubai says plans world’s first 3D printed office building
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•DUBAI (Reuters) – Dubai said it would construct a small office building using a 3D printer for the first time, in a drive to develop technology that would cut costs …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
New genetic form of obesity, diabetes discovered
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•Scientists have discovered a new inherited form of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans. Researchers discovered the new defect by sequencing the DNA of an extremely obese young woman …read more Source:: Science