A dramatic increase in the rate of earthquakes in the central and eastern US since 2009 is associated with fluid injection wells used in oil and gas development, says a …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 18, 2015
Staying cool: Saharan silver ants
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•Researchers have discovered two strategies that enable Saharan silver ants to stay cool in one of the world’s hottest environments. They are the first to demonstrate that the ants use …read more Source:: Science
Evidence from ivory DNA identifies two main elephant poaching hotspots
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•Biologists have used DNA evidence to trace the origin of illegal ivory and help police an international trade that is decimating African elephant populations. New results show that over the …read more Source:: Science
Majority rules when baboons vote with their feet
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•Olive baboon troops decide where to move democratically, despite their hierarchical social order, according to a new report. At the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, biologists conducted the first-ever group-level …read more Source:: Science
DNA sleuthing pinpoints two African elephant poaching hot spots
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – DNA testing on tons of ivory seized from traffickers has identified two elephant poaching “hot spots” in Africa in a development scientists hope will spur a crackdown …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Supermassive black hole at center of distant spiral galaxy ‘weighed’
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•Astronomers have measured the mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 1097 — a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years away in the direction …read more Source:: Science
Raspberry Pi releases an official PC case that costs less than $10
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•For a little more than $50, you can now put together a tiny PC based on Raspberry Pi parts — though you’ll still need to pay for keyboard, mouse, and …read more Source:: Linux