CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. space agency NASA has dropped Boeing Co from a multibillion-dollar competition to fly cargo to the International Space Station and will delay selecting one …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Month: November 2015
NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere
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•NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, …read more Source:: Science
Managed bees spread and intensify diseases in wild bees
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•Wild pollinators are in decline across many parts of the world. To combat this, managed honey bees and bumblebees are frequently shipped in to provide valuable pollination services to crops. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists learn how some fish can supercharge their vision
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Superman can use his X-ray vision whenever the need arises. It turns out that in real life, some fish and amphibians can do something nearly as super …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Side by side: openSuSE Leap and Fedora 23
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•Two major Linux distributions have been released on consecutive days. I have loaded them both on several of my laptops, and here is what I found. …read more Source:: Linux
Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally
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•Supervolcanoes, massive eruptions with potential global consequences, appear not to follow the conventional volcano mechanics of internal pressure building until the volcano blows. Instead, a new study finds, such massive …read more Source:: Science
Some 3-D printed objects are toxic, study shows
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•Parts produced by some commercial 3-D printers are toxic to certain fish embryos, new research shows. These results have raised questions about how to dispose of parts and waste materials …read more Source:: Science
Newly discovered fossil sea urchin is the oldest of its kind
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•A fossil sea urchin is the oldest of its kind, pushing back a fork in the sea urchin family tree by 10 million years. …read more Source:: Science
Insulin sensitivity: One night of poor sleep could equal six months on a high-fat diet, study in dogs suggests
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•New research finds that one night of sleep deprivation and six months on a high-fat diet could both impair insulin sensitivity to a similar degree, demonstrating the importance of a …read more Source:: Science
Female birds can’t shake their colorful fathers, and other lessons from studying 6,000 species
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•The evolution of male songbirds as the colorful consorts of drab female partners is more complicated than long thought, says a researcher on a team that looked at nearly 6,000 …read more Source:: Science