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
Month: June 2015
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
Study reveals famous California redwood is 777 years young
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•(Reuters) – A new study to determine the age of iconic old-growth redwoods in California’s Muir Woods has revealed that one of the tallest and most famous trees in the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Tiny birds ‘cry hawk’ to give offspring chance to escape predators
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•New research has found that the 6 gram brown thornbill mimics the hawk alarm calls of neighboring species to scare a nest predator by convincing it that a much bigger …read more Source:: Science
Chimps have mental skills to cook: study
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•NEW YORK (Reuters) – They’re not likely to start barbecuing in the rainforest, but chimpanzees can understand the concept of cooking and are willing to postpone eating raw food, even …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents discovered in Pacific Ocean
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•Researchers have discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico. Lying more than 3,800 …read more Source:: Science