Physicists decided to test whether some science-related conspiracies alleged to exist were in fact tenable. The answer — they’d all have given themselves away in less than four years. …read more Source:: Science
Day: January 26, 2016
Texting at night affects teens’ sleep, academic performance
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•A new study is the first of its kind to link nighttime instant messaging habits of American teenagers to sleep health and school performance. Media use among children of all …read more Source:: Science
Cancer riddle solved: How cancer cells form tumors
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•Using real-time recording of cellular movement, biologists have discovered how tumors form. Cancer cells extend cables and grab other cells. As little as five percent cancerous cells are needed for …read more Source:: Science
Doomsday Clock stays unchanged at three minutes to midnight
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Iran nuclear deal and movement on climate change prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to keep it unchanged …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
An ancestor of the rabbit connects Europe and Asia
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•The species Amphilagus tomidai was recently discovered – an ancestor of the rabbit which lived in present-day Siberia during the Miocene, about 14 million years ago. The discovery of this …read more Source:: Science
Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky dead at 88
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•BOSTON (Reuters) – Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence pioneer who helped make machines think, leading to computers that understand spoken commands and beat grandmasters at chess, has died at the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Mosquitoes capable of carrying Zika virus found in Washington, D. C.
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•Researchers have reported the discovery of a major population of the mosquito species Aedes aegypti, the species capable of carrying tropical diseases such as Zika virus, dengue fever and chikungunya, …read more Source:: Science
Sex life of sleeping sickness parasite may lead to its downfall
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•LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An unusual sex life may spell the extinction of the deadly African sleeping sickness parasite, which threatens millions of people in West and Central Africa, …read more Source:: UKScienceNews