WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, has slammed a bid by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co, to get a waiver …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: October 8, 2015
Blue skies and water ice discovered on Pluto
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•The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue. …read more Source:: Science
Caution: Weird material shrinks when warm
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•Most materials swell when warm, and shrink when cool. But some weird materials do the opposite. Although thermal expansion, and the cracking and warping that often result, occurs everyday — …read more Source:: Science
Smoking, heavy alcohol use are associated with epigenetic signs of aging
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•Cigarette smoking and heavy alcohol use cause epigenetic changes to DNA that reflect accelerated biological aging in distinct, measurable ways, according to research. The researchers estimated biological age using a …read more Source:: Science
Experts caution on study citing method to predict sexual orientation
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•(Reuters) – U.S. researchers on Thursday said they had found a way to predict male sexual orientation based on molecular markers that control DNA function, but genetics experts warned that …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Atlas rocket blasts off with U.S. spy satellite and 13 mini: satellites
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday to put a classified spy satellite and 13 tiny experimental spacecraft into orbit for the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Bio-inspired robotic finger looks, feels and works like the real thing
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•Most robotic parts used to today are rigid, have a limited range of motion and don’t really look lifelike. Inspired by both nature and biology, a scientist has designed a …read more Source:: Science
NOAA declares third ever global coral bleaching event
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•As record ocean temperatures cause widespread coral bleaching across Hawaii, scientists confirm the same stressful conditions are expanding to the Caribbean and may last into the new year, prompting the …read more Source:: Science
Hands-On: KaOS Linux 2015.10
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•I have installed (or at least tried to install) the new release of this tightly-focused distribution. Here are the mixed results. …read more Source:: Linux