CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A flawed steel strut holding a helium pressurization bottle likely gave way, dooming a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last month, company chief Elon Musk said …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: July 20, 2015
Fossil fuel emissions will complicate radiocarbon dating
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•Fossil fuel emissions could soon make it impossible for radiocarbon dating to distinguish new materials from artefacts that are hundreds of years old. …read more Source:: Science
How music alters the teenage brain
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•Music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain’s responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills, suggests a new study. The authors say …read more Source:: Science
Poverty’s most insidious damage is to a child’s brain
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•An alarming 22 percent of U.S. children live in poverty, which can have long-lasting negative consequences on brain development, emotional health and academic achievement. Now, even more compelling evidence has …read more Source:: Science
Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle
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•Anyone who’s ever noticed a water puddle drying in the sun has seen an environment that may have driven the type of chemical reactions that scientists believe were critical to …read more Source:: Science
Dead galaxies in Coma Cluster may be packed with dark matter
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•Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study. …read more Source:: Science
Comet lander falls silent, scientists fear it has moved
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•BERLIN (Reuters) – The Philae comet lander has fallen silent, European scientists said on Monday, raising fears that it has moved again on its new home millions of miles from …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
To Be Customer-Obsessed, Firms Must Also Be Technology-Obsessed
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•By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) Igniting a culture of customer experience is important. Relentlessly improving the operating model to put customers first is also important. But without the right customer-serving business technology in place, customers …read more Source:: Open Source
Mint 17.2: The year’s best Linux desktop
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•Windows 10? Eh. OS X El Capitan? It’s OK I guess. Just give me the latest and greatest Linux desktop from Mint and I’ll be happy. …read more Source:: Linux