Until now, researchers believed farming was ‘invented’ some 12,000 years ago in an area that was home to some of the earliest known human civilizations. A new discovery offers the …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2015
DNA damage seen in patients undergoing CT scanning, study finds
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•Using new laboratory technology, scientists have shown that cellular damage is detectable in patients after CT scanning. In this study, researchers examined the effects on human cells of low-dose radiation …read more Source:: Science
Resolving social conflict is key to survival of bacterial communities
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•Far from being selfish organisms whose sole purpose is to maximize their own reproduction, bacteria in large communities work for the greater good by resolving a social conflict among individuals …read more Source:: Science
Bionic hand uses smart wires to mimic muscle fibers
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•Engineers in Germany have built a biologically inspired artificial hand with muscles made from bundles of ‘smart’ wires. An electric charge is all that’s needed to make these wires tense …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Plant ‘milkers’ seek molecules for medicines and make-up
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•LARONXE, France (Reuters) – A quiet village in eastern France is home to an unusual greenhouse. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
New evidence of cultural diversification between neighboring chimpanzee communities
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•Newly discovered tool-length ‘subcultures’ in our closest living relatives provide striking parallel with cultural differences observed between adjacent groups in human societies. …read more Source:: Science
Assembly of galaxies in the early universe witnessed for the first time
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•The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to detect the most distant clouds of star-forming gas yet found in normal galaxies in the early universe. The new observations …read more Source:: Science
Simulations lead to design of near-frictionless material
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•Scientists used the Mira supercomputer to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material that exhibited superlubricity at the macroscale …read more Source:: Science
Why we live on Earth and not Venus
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•Compared to its celestial neighbors Venus and Mars, Earth is a pretty habitable place. So how did we get so lucky? A new study sheds light on the improbable evolutionary …read more Source:: Science
Drawing a line between quantum, classical world
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•A classical beam of light that would be expected to obey Bell’s Inequality can fail this test in the lab, if the beam is properly prepared to have a particular …read more Source:: Science