WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global warming is shrinking the terrain where bumblebees live in North America and Europe, with these vital pollinators departing the southernmost and hottest parts of their ranges …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: July 9, 2015
Atmosphere of Venus studied through rare transit images
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•Two of NASA’s heliophysics missions can now claim planetary science on their list of scientific findings. A group of scientists used the Venus transit — a very rare event where …read more Source:: Science
‘Conjunction junction’ for brain’s navigation function
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•The world we and other animals navigate is complex and non-linear, quite unlike the way a proverbial crow flies. Scientists say our ability to get around its numerous indirect points …read more Source:: Science
Bear necessities: low metabolism lets pandas survive on bamboo
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Giant pandas eat vegetables even though their bodies are better equipped to eat meat. So how do these black-and-white bears from the remote, misty mountains of central …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
New Horizons map of Pluto: The whale and the donut
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•This is the latest map of Pluto created from images taken from June 27 to July 3 by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons, combined with lower-resolution …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers see black hole come to life
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•Radio astronomers are watching a previously dormant black hole wake up in a dramatic display as material falls on to it for the first time for perhaps millions of years. …read more Source:: Science
Volcanic eruptions slow down climate change — temporarily
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•Although global concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has continuously increased over the past decade, the mean global surface temperature has not followed the same path. Scientists have now …read more Source:: Science
Overhydration potentially deadly for athletes, experts warn
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•While the risks of dehydration are well known, new international guidelines seek to protect athletes from the serious health risks associated with drinking too many fluids while exercising — potentially …read more Source:: Science
Syncplicity Gets Its Own Independence Day
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•By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) It’s been a busy couple of weeks for major players in the increasingly colliding enterprise content management (ECM) and enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) markets. Hot on the heels …read more Source:: Open Source