When it comes to vaccinating their babies, bees don’t have a choice — they naturally immunize their offspring against specific diseases found in their environments. Now for the first time, …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2015
Ebola vaccine efficacy trial suggest vaccine provides high protection against disease
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•Tests of the experimental Ebola vaccine VSV-ZEBOV in over 7500 participants in Guinea suggest that the vaccine provides high protection against the disease as early as ten days after vaccination, …read more Source:: Science
Brain-controlled prosthesis nearly as good as one-finger typing
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•Brain-controlled prostheses sample a few hundred neurons to estimate motor commands that involve millions of neurons. Sampling errors can reduce the precision and speed of thought-controlled keypads. A new technique …read more Source:: Science
Parents inclined to misjudge child happiness based on personal feelings
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•Parents’ estimations of their children’s happiness differ significantly from the child’s own assessment of their feelings, according to a new study. Research showed parents of 10 and 11-year-olds consistently overestimated …read more Source:: Science
California ‘rain debt’ equal to average full year of precipitation
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•A new study has concluded California accumulated a debt of about 20 inches of precipitation between 2012 and 2015 — the average amount expected to fall in the state in …read more Source:: Science
U.S. lawmakers question NASA, Air Force on blast probe led by SpaceX
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fourteen U.S. lawmakers on Thursday told the Air Force and NASA they had “serious concerns” about the fact that SpaceX is leading an investigation into the June …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Organic molecules on comets: Philae’s first results from Churi prove surprising
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•Organic molecules never previously observed in comets, a relatively varied structure on the surface but a fairly homogeneous interior, organic compounds forming agglomerates rather than being dispersed in the ice: …read more Source:: Science
When is a jackal not a jackal? When it’s really a ‘golden wolf’
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – They look alike, act alike and long have been considered to be the same species. But, in the case of the golden jackals found across parts of …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
An exceptional planetary system discovered in Cassiopeia
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•Astronomers have teased out a secret planetary system hiding in the arms of Cassiopea, just 21 light years away from us. The remarkable system, named HD219134, hosts one outer giant …read more Source:: Science
Can we restart the heart?
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•What if you could use the proliferative and survival properties of cancer-prone cells to rejuvenate cardiac progenitor cells and get them dividing again, without forming tumors? Researchers are exploring the …read more Source:: Science