(Reuters) – Governor Chris Christie’s administration went to federal court on Friday in the hopes of stopping an underwater study off New Jersey’s coast during summer tourism season, saying sonic …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: June 5, 2015
Paleo-engineering: Complexity of triceratops’ teeth revealed
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•When it comes to the three-horned dinosaur called the Triceratops, science is showing the ancient creatures might have been a little more complex than we thought. In fact, their teeth …read more Source:: Science
Trouble looms as warmer oceans push marine life toward the poles
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rising sea temperatures attributed to global climate change could drive many marine creatures away from the equator, but their move toward the poles promises to put them …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Small vortex on wing makes the elegance of birds’ flight
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•Birds use a thumb-like structure on the wing to create a small vortex which makes their turns and landings smooth, new research shows. This is the first time that researchers …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists discover evidence of prehistoric gold trade route
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•Archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient gold trade route between the south-west of the UK and Ireland. A study suggests people were trading gold between the two countries as …read more Source:: Science
The FCC is the most powerful privacy regulator in the US … what will happen next?
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•By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) Since the bulk collection of telephone metadata began, the NSA has been keeping those records in a vast database and maintaining and querying that data for 5 years before being …read more Source:: Open Source
Meet ‘Hellboy,’ the dinosaur with exotic horns and frill
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists had a heck of a time getting the remarkable fossil of a dinosaur they dubbed “Hellboy” out of the hard limestone along a Canadian river bank …read more Source:: UKScienceNews