A new study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2015
Full-scale architecture for a quantum computer in silicon
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•Researchers have designed a full-scale architecture for a quantum computer in silicon. The new concept provides a pathway for building an operational quantum computer with error correction. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists get first glimpse of conductivity that could break size barriers for memory
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•Scientists have made the first direct images showing that electrical currents can flow along the boundaries between tiny magnetic regions of a material that normally doesn’t conduct electricity. The results …read more Source:: Science
Fossil unearthed in Spain sheds light on ape evolution
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The well-preserved partial skull and skeleton of a gibbon-like creature that lived 11.6 million years ago in Spain is shedding new light on the evolutionary history of …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Simulation of 3-D exotic clouds on an exoplanet
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•A nearby exoplanet has an atmosphere that might be similar to Earth’s before life evolved. Researchers have now simulated three-dimensional exotic clouds on another world. …read more Source:: Science
Google will merge Android and Chrome OS by 2017: report
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•For years, people have wondered when Google would combine Android and Chrome OS. That day appears to be coming. …read more Source:: Linux
New class of DNA repair enzyme discovered
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•A new class of DNA repair enzyme has been discovered which demonstrates that a much broader range of damage can be removed from the double helix in ways that biologists …read more Source:: Science
Study spells out why some insects kill their mothers
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•Among social insects, why does it pay for workers to help the queen in some situations but then also pay to kill her in others? What explains why some queens …read more Source:: Science
Nuclear membrane repairs the ‘dark matter’ of DNA
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•The nuclear membrane isn’t just a protective case around the nucleus — it actually repairs catastrophically broken DNA strands. …read more Source:: Science
Spirals in dust around young stars may betray presence of massive planets
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•A team of astronomers is proposing that huge spiral patterns seen around some newborn stars, merely a few million years old (about one percent our sun’s age), may be evidence …read more Source:: Science