Each summer, Greenland’s ice sheet — the world’s second-largest expanse of ice, measuring three times the size of Texas — begins to melt. Pockets of melting ice form hundreds of …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 3, 2015
High levels of moral reasoning correspond with increased gray matter in brain
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•Individuals with a higher level of moral reasoning skills showed increased gray matter in the areas of the brain implicated in complex social behavior, decision making, and conflict processing as …read more Source:: Science
Study shows Pluto’s moons in chaos
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Pluto’s outer moons are continuously toppled and turned as they battle the joint gravitational forces of their parent planet and its primary moon Charon, a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
U.S. researchers uncover secret of Greenland’s vanishing lakes
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•BOSTON (Reuters) – Scientists were baffled last year after meltwater lakes atop Greenland’s ice sheet suddenly drained out at rates rivaling Niagara Falls. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
A new day, a new Ubuntu smartphone
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•They’re still not available in the States, but EU country citizens can get a bigger, better Ubuntu Linux smartphone: The Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition. …read more Source:: Linux
How a box jellyfish catches fish
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•The first feeding study of tropical Australia’s Irukandji box jellyfish has found that they actively fish. They attract larval fish by twitching their extended tentacles, highlighting their nematocyst clusters (stinging …read more Source:: Science
World’s Smallest Spirals Could Guard Against Identity Theft
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•Researchers have made the world’s smallest spirals and found they have unique optical properties that are nearly impossible to counterfeit if they were added to identity cards, currency and other …read more Source:: Science
Paleo study shows how elevation may affect evolution
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•About 34 million years ago, global temperatures took a dive, causing a sudden wave of extinctions among European mammals. In North America, however, life went on largely unscathed. A new …read more Source:: Science
Cooking up cognition: Study suggests chimps have cognitive capacity for cooking
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•Many of the cognitive capacities that humans use for cooking — a preference for cooked food, the ability to understand the transformation of raw food into cooked food, and even …read more Source:: Science
Large Hadron Collider experiments are back in business at a new record energy
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•Today, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is …read more Source:: Science