WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When it comes to unleashing their trademark zaps, electric eels employ an impressive and sophisticated set of tactics. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: October 28, 2015
Spacecraft to sample water plumes from Saturn moon
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (REUTERS) – A U.S. spacecraft was poised to make a deep dive into plumes of water, ice and organic matter blasting from Saturn’s small, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus, …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Spacewalking astronauts prep station for space taxi parking spots
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A pair of U.S. astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Wednesday doing electrical work to prepare the low-orbit outpost for new commercial space …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Dog robot copes with tough terrain
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•Swiss researchers have built an electrically actuated, walking, climbing, running four-legged robot that can handle difficult terrain. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Electric eels curl up to deliver even more powerful shocks
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•Electric eels temporarily paralyze their prey by shocking them with electricity using a series of brief, high-voltage pulses, much as a Taser would do. Now, a researcher has discovered that …read more Source:: Science
Oldest DNA sequences may reveal secrets of ancient animal ancestors
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•Researchers have discovered early conserved DNA sequences from almost 700 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Hands-On: Adding UEFI boot to Tanglu Linux 4.0 Alpha
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•The Tanglu Linux 4.0 Alpha release does not include UEFI Boot support. Here is how I added it. …read more Source:: Linux
New component of Milky Way discovered
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•Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way. By mapping out the locations of a class of stars that vary in brightness called Cepheids, a disc of …read more Source:: Science
Raspberry Pi will now build you a bespoke model (as long as you buy 3,000)
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•Manufacturer element14 is offering to customise the cheap computing boards for customers that order larger volumes. …read more Source:: Linux
Black hole has major flare
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•The baffling and strange behaviors of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA’s Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. …read more Source:: Science