A study confirms a link between peanut and nut intake and lower mortality rates, but finds no protective effect for peanut butter. Men and women who eat at least 10 …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 10, 2015
Privately funded spacecraft spreads its solar sails
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A privately funded space project to demonstrate an innovative solar sail passed with flying colors despite a series of near-fatal technical issues, program managers said …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
First functional, synthetic immune organ with controllable antibodies
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•Engineers have created a functional, synthetic immune organ that produces antibodies and can be controlled in the lab, completely separate from a living organism. The engineered organ has implications for …read more Source:: Science
Chimps can vary their smiles like humans
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•A new study has revealed that chimpanzees have the same types of smiles as humans when laughing, which suggests these smile types evolved from positive expressions of ancestral apes. …read more Source:: Science
A celestial butterfly emerges from its dusty chrysalis
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•Some of the sharpest images ever made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, revealed what appears to be an ageing star giving birth to a butterfly-like …read more Source:: Science
Work-experience schoolboy discovers a new planet
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•A 15-yr-old schoolboy has discovered a new planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away in our galaxy. The student was doing a work-experience project when he spotted the planet …read more Source:: Science
Developing a robot that learns from scratch, like a child
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•Researchers have made a robot that learns like a young child. At least, that’s the idea. The machine starts with nothing — it has to learn everything from scratch. …read more Source:: Science
Cascading big data framework gets Apache Tez support
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•By Thor Olavsrud After about a year-and-a-half of development, big data application platform specialist Concurrent today released a new version of the open source Cascading …read more Source:: OpenSource
Honey-based mead may curb antibiotic resistance, say makers
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•Scientists in Sweden are launching their own mead – an alcoholic beverage made from a fermented mix of honey and water – based on old recipes which they say could …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Longest ever tiger shark tracking reveals remarkable, bird-like migrations
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•A new study has yielded the first ever continuous, two or more-year satellite tagging tracks for tiger sharks. This study reveals remarkable, and previously unknown, migration patterns more similar to …read more Source:: Science