New species evolve whenever a lineage splits off into several. Because of this, the kinship between species is often described in terms of a ‘tree of life,’ where every branch …read more Source:: Science
Day: August 18, 2015
Engineers identify how to keep surfaces dry underwater for months
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•Imagine staying dry underwater for months. Engineers have examined a variety of surfaces that can do just that — and they know why. They have identified the ideal ‘roughness’ needed …read more Source:: Science
Amazon fire risk linked to devastating hurricanes
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•Researchers have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear near …read more Source:: Science
Solar System formation don’t mean a thing without that spin
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•New work provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. …read more Source:: Science
Fossil study: Dogs evolved with climate change
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•A cooling, drying climate over the last 40 million years turned North America from a warm and wooded place into the drier, open plains we know today. A new study …read more Source:: Science
Massacres, torture and mutilation: Extreme violence in neolithic conflicts
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•Violent conflicts in Neolithic Europe were held more brutally than has been known so far. This emerges from a recent anthropological analysis of the roughly 7000-year-old mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten. …read more Source:: Science
Meteorite impacts can create DNA building blocks
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•A new study shown that meteorite impacts on ancient oceans may have created nucleobases and amino acids. Researchers discovered this after conducting impact experiments simulating a meteorite hitting an ancient …read more Source:: Science
A brain-computer interface for controlling an exoskeleton
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•Scientists have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding specific signals from within the user’s brain. …read more Source:: Science
Ubuntu Linux is coming to IBM mainframes
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•Thanks to customer demand, IBM and Canonical are working on bringing Ubuntu to the Big Blue’s z System mainframe. …read more Source:: Linux