Heavy rainfall events setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past thirty years. While before 1980, multi-decadal fluctuations in extreme rainfall events are explained by natural variability, …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2015
Brawling badgers age faster
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•Male badgers that spend their youth fighting tend to age more quickly than their passive counterparts according to new research. The 35-year study revealed that male badgers living alongside a …read more Source:: Science
Eyeing up Earth-like planets
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•Almost 2000 exoplanets have been discovered to date, ranging from rocky Earth-like planets to hot-Jupiters, and orbiting every type of star. But how many of these distant worlds are habitable? …read more Source:: Science
Spectacular Moroccan fossils redefine evolutionary timelines
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•Some of the oldest marine animals on the planet, including armoured worm-like forms and giant, lobster like sea creatures, survived millions of years longer than previously thought, according to a …read more Source:: Science
South Africa’s Great Karoo reveals mass extinction
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•Scientists have obtained an age from rocks of the Great Karoo that shed light on the timing of a mass extinction event that occurred around 260 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Using sonar to navigate: Bats do it, dolphins do it, and now humans can do it, too
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•Bats have been using sonar to navigate and communicate for ages, and now humans can do the same, thanks to lightweight and efficient ultrasound microphones and loudspeakers developed by physicists. …read more Source:: Science
Researchers find the organization of human brain to be nearly ideal
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•The structure of the human brain has an almost ideal network of connections — the links that permit information to travel from, say, the auditory cortex (responsible for hearing) to …read more Source:: Science
The future of travel? A tube called Hyperloop
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•When asked to imagine the future of transportation, most might draw a car of the future, perhaps solar powered and autonomously driven. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Cause of Falcon rocket accident still eludes SpaceX, CEO says
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) – SpaceX is still homing in on why its Falcon 9 rocket exploded after liftoff last week, unable to resolve conflicting data radioed back to the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Engineers give invisibility cloaks a slimmer design
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•Researchers have designed a new cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing ‘invisibility cloaks.’ In a new study, electrical engineers have designed a cloaking device that is …read more Source:: Science