LONDON (Reuters) – A growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health risks, British experts said …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: June 17, 2015
Fossil of huge ‘walking’ bat discovered in New Zealand
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•Fossilized remains of a new bat species, which lived 16 million years ago, walked on four limbs and was three times larger than today’s average bat, have been discovered in …read more Source:: Science
First sensor of Earth’s magnetic field in an animal
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•Scientists have identified the first sensor of the Earth’s magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny worm (C. elegans) a big clue to a long-held …read more Source:: Science
Fructose powers a vicious circle
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•Researchers have found a hitherto unknown molecular mechanism that is driven by fructose and can lead to cardiac enlargement and heart failure. …read more Source:: Science
Moon engulfed in permanent, lopsided dust cloud
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•The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study. …read more Source:: Science
Sleep through my piece, please, composer Max Richter says
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•LONDON (Reuters) – People since time immemorial have been dozing off in concert halls. Now British composer Max Richter has written an eight-hour-long piece called “SLEEP” which he says is …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Scientists plan risky move to get Rosetta spacecraft nearer comet
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•PARIS (Reuters) – European scientists are planning a risky maneuver to get their Rosetta spacecraft closer to the comet it is orbiting, so it can communicate with its robotic lander …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Best observational evidence of first generation stars in the universe
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•Astronomers have discovered the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and found strong evidence that first generation of stars lurk within it. These previously theoretical objects were the …read more Source:: Science
How the brain learns to distinguish between what is important and what is not
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•Traffic lights, neon-lit advertisements, a jungle of road signs: when learning to drive, it is often very difficult to distinguish between important and irrelevant information. How the brain learns the …read more Source:: Science
Amazon Web Services jumps on Spark bandwagon
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•By Mikael Ricknäs Amazon Web Services’ EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so …read more Source:: OpenSource