The telomerase enzyme is known to play a significant role in aging and most cancers. Scientists have discovered several major new insights about this enzyme and they are now able …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 15, 2015
Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
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•Engineers have fabricated and tested a large-scale model of a harbor seal’s whisker, and identified a mechanism that may explain how seals sense their environment and track their prey. …read more Source:: Science
Three months after flyby, New Horizons team publishes first research paper
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•The New Horizons team described a wide range of findings about the Pluto system in its first research paper, just published. ‘The Pluto System: Initial Results from its Exploration by …read more Source:: Science
New study questions long-held theories of climate variability in the North Atlantic
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•A new study challenges the prevailing wisdom by identifying the atmosphere as the driver of a decades-long climate variation known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation. The findings offer new insight …read more Source:: Science
Can the Internet exist without Linux?
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•Yes, but it wouldn’t be the Internet you know. …read more Source:: Linux
Bronze Age cemetery unearthed in southwestern Poland
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•DUNINO, Poland – Excavations for a motorway in southwestern Poland led to an unusual and unexpected discovery – the remains of a huge, almost perfectly preserved Bronze Age cemetery. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews