As world governments mull over global emission targets agreed at last December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), attention is turning to which new technologies can help them achieve …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Month: January 2016
Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought
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•The brain’s memory capacity is in the petabyte range, as much as entire Web, new research indicates. The new work answers a longstanding question as to how the brain is …read more Source:: Science
Prehistoric massacre in Kenya called oldest evidence of warfare
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Man’s inhumanity to man, as 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns put it, is no recent development. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
How to fix the latest Linux and Android zero day flaw
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•This flaw isn’t nearly as bad as first reported, but Linux administrators still need to fix it. …read more Source:: Linux
Like air traffic, information flows through neuron ‘hubs’ in the brain
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•70 percent of all information within cortical regions in the brain passes through only 20 percent of its regions’ neurons, report researchers. The scientists report these high-traffic “hub neurons” could …read more Source:: Science
Rising carbon dioxide emissions pose ‘intoxication’ threat to world’s ocean fish
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•Researchers have found that carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater could reach levels high enough to make fish ‘intoxicated’ and disoriented many decades earlier than previously thought, with serious implications for …read more Source:: Science
Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare
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•Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a lagoon is unique evidence of a violent encounter between clashing groups of ancient …read more Source:: Science
Transgenic mosquito ready to join Brazil’s war on Zika virus
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•BRASILIA (Reuters) – A genetically modified mosquito has helped reduce the proliferation of mosquitoes spreading Zika and other dangerous viruses in Brazil, its developers said on Tuesday. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
New framework sheds light on how, not if, climate change affects cold-blooded animals
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•Cold-blooded animals like lizards, insects and fish have a preferred body temperature range at which they hunt, eat, move quickly and reproduce. Fear that a warming climate will constrict this …read more Source:: Science
Early agriculture staved off global cooling, mounting evidence suggests
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•Early human agriculture cancelled natural cooling of Earth’s climate, new ice core data and other evidence confirm. Earth naturally cycles between cool glacial periods and warmer interglacial periods because of …read more Source:: Science