CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – The Russian-made rocket motor that catapulted a United Launch Alliance booster toward orbit last week shut down six seconds early apparently because of a fuel …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Month: March 2016
Pharmacy on demand: Portable system can be configured to produce different drugs
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•Researchers have developed a compact, portable pharmaceutical manufacturing system that can be reconfigured to produce a variety of drugs on demand. …read more Source:: Science
Structure of Zika virus determined
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•A near-atomic level map of Zika virus shows its structure to be largely similar to that of dengue virus and other flaviviruses, but with a notable difference in one key …read more Source:: Science
Could this megacopter carry people?
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•Students who have a remote-controlled multicopter drone that set a Guinness World Record for the heaviest payload ever lifted by such a vehicle say they hope to get permission to …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Could new class of fungicides play a role in autism, neurodegenerative diseases?
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•A class of commonly used fungicides has been found that produce gene expression changes similar to those in people with autism and neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease. …read more Source:: Science
Chinese AI team plans to challenge Google’s AlphaGo: state media
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•BEIJING (Reuters) – A team from China plans to challenge Google’s AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence (AI) program that beat a world-class player in the ancient board game Go, the state-owned …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Fossil of ‘early spider’ discovered; 305 million years old
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•Researchers have discovered the fossil of a 305-million-year-old arachnid, which will help scientists to understand more about the early origins of modern-day spiders. …read more Source:: Science
Second quantum revolution a reality with chip-based atomic physics
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•Physicists believe chip-based atomic physics holds promise to make the second quantum revolution — the engineering of quantum matter with arbitrary precision — a reality. With recent technological advances in …read more Source:: Science
Link between Zika virus and fetal brain damage confirmed
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•Zika virus can be detected in blood samples taken from a pregnant woman while brain damage is developing, as well as isolated in cell culture from the brain tissue of …read more Source:: Science
Diminutive ‘Hobbit’ people vanished earlier than previously known
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The extinct human species dubbed the “Hobbit” vanished from its home on the Indonesian island of Flores far earlier than previously thought, according to scientists who suspect …read more Source:: UKScienceNews