Barley, a widely grown cereal grain commonly used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages, possesses a large and highly repetitive genome that is difficult to fully sequence. Now scientists …read more Source:: Science
Day: August 25, 2015
Ocean currents: Debut of the global mix-master
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•The Atlantic Circumpolar Current encircles Antarctica with a constant eastward flow in the Southern Ocean. Researchers determined that it originated 30 million years ago, several million years after the tectonic …read more Source:: Science
415-million-year-old malformed fossil plankton reveal that heavy metal pollution might have contributed to some of the world’s largest extinction events
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•Several Palaeozoic mass extinction events during the Ordovician and Silurian periods (ca. 485 to 420 to million years ago) shaped the evolution of life on our planet. Although some of …read more Source:: Science
No benefit of omega-3 supplements for cognitive decline, study shows
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•While some research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial found that omega-3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in …read more Source:: Science
Mammoth remains, as far as the eye can see: Widest distribution of mammoths during the last Ice Age
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•Ice Age paleontologist recorded the maximum geographic distribution of the woolly mammoth during the last Ice Age and published the most accurate global map in this regard. The ice-age pachyderms …read more Source:: Science
Secrets of matter revealed under record-high pressure
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•A research team has shown that at extremely high pressure even the innermost electrons in the atomic nuclei of the metal osmium begin to interact with each other, a phenomenon …read more Source:: Science
Microbiomes of human throat may be linked to schizophrenia
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•In the most comprehensive study to date, researchers have identified a potential link between microbes (viruses, bacteria and fungi) in the throat and schizophrenia. This link may offer a way …read more Source:: Science
Another milestone in hybrid artificial photosynthesis
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•Researchers using a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynthesis have combined semiconducting nanowires with select microbes to create a system that produces renewable molecular hydrogen and uses it to synthesize …read more Source:: Science