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
Day: October 29, 2015
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
Large asteroid set to shoot by Earth on Halloween
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A large asteroid that scientists only discovered this month will make a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday, astronomers say, providing one of the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews