A team of international scientists has shown for the first time that galaxies can change their structure over the course of their lifetime. …read more Source:: Science
Month: August 2015
Pigments, organelles persist in fossil feathers: Shed light on original coloration of long-lost animals
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•An international team of researchers has found direct chemical evidence that the fossilized remains of a bird-like dinosaur still harbor melanosomes and the pigment they produced. Their study reinforces the …read more Source:: Science
Life expectancy climbs worldwide but people spend more years living with illness and disability
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•Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 as healthy life expectancy grows; ischemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, and stroke cause the most health loss …read more Source:: Science
Firstborn women more likely to be overweight/obese as adults than second-born sisters
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•Firstborn women are more likely to be overweight/obese as adults than their second-born sisters, finds the largest study of its kind in women. …read more Source:: Science
Mechanism behind ‘strange’ earthquakes discovered
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•Scientists have discovered the mechanism that generates earthquakes that occur away from tectonic plate boundaries. …read more Source:: Science
Methanotrophs: Could bacteria help protect our environment?
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•New insight into methanotrophs, bacteria that can oxidise methane, may help us develop an array of biotechnological applications that exploit methane and protect our environment from this potent greenhouse gas. …read more Source:: Science
Capturing cancer: 3-D model of solid tumors explains cancer evolution
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•Researchers have developed the first model of solid tumors that reflects both their three-dimensional shape and genetic evolution. The new model explains why cancer cells have a surprising number of …read more Source:: Science
Microscopic fish are 3-D-printed to do more than swim
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•Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego used an innovative 3-D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped microrobots — called microfish — that swim around efficiently in …read more Source:: Science
Home sweet microbe: Dust in your house can predict geographic region, gender of occupants
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•The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers have discovered, it may be able to predict not only …read more Source:: Science
Fossil remains of Old World lizard discovered in the New World overturn long-held hypothesis of lizard evolution
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•Paleontologists have discovered a new species of lizard, named Gueragama sulamericana, in the municipality of Cruzeiro do Oeste in Southern Brazil in the rock outcrops of a Late Cretaceous desert, …read more Source:: Science