The ability of baby fish to find a home, or other safe haven, to grow into adulthood will be severely impacted under predicted ocean acidification, new research has found. …read more Source:: Science
Month: December 2015
Spacecraft carrying Russian, American, Briton docks with space station
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•BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – A Soyuz spacecraft successfully delivered a Russian, an American and a Briton to the International Space Station on Tuesday after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Panda passion: Study reveals secret of fruitful captive breeding
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In pandas as in people, it appears that passion prevails. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Urine for some fertilizer
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•GAINESVILLE, FL (Reuters) – It’s called the ‘Swamp’, a stadium that packs more than 90,000 fans when the University of Florida Gators host a home game. If Environmental Engineering Professor …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Rocket with three-man crew blasts off to space station
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•BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man international crew, including Britain’s first professional astronaut, Tim Peake, blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<br …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
In Chile, world’s astronomy hub, scientists fear loss of dark skies
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•CERRO LAS CAMPANAS, Chile (Reuters) – When some of the world’s leading astronomers scaled a frosty, Chilean peak in mid-November to break ground on a state-of-the-art, $1 billion telescope, they …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
How music, language shape the brain
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•A researcher has pioneered a way to measure how the brain makes sense of sound, suggesting that the brain’s ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music …read more Source:: Science
Chitchat, small talk could serve an evolutionary need to bond with others
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•Idle conversation could be a social-bonding tool passed down from primates, suggests new research. The investigators found that lemurs use vocalizations far more selectively than previously thought, primarily exchanging calls …read more Source:: Science
Study documents sea lion brain damage due to algae’s toxin
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A toxin produced by marine algae is inflicting brain damage on sea lions along California’s coast, causing neurological and behavioral changes that can impair their ability to …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Precise method underlies sloppy madness of dog slurping
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•Using photography and laboratory simulations, researchers studied how dogs raise fluids into their mouths to drink. They discovered that sloppy-looking actions at the dog bowl are in fact high-speed, precisely …read more Source:: Science