CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Friday on a satellite-delivery mission that will involve an attempt to make a return landing …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: March 4, 2016
Scientist George Washington Carver’s fungi found in Wisconsin
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•MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – U.S. inventor George Washington Carver, known for his creativity with the peanut, has excited modern scientists with an unexpected find: century-old specimens of fungus. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Woodpecker drumming signals wimp or warrior
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•Instead of a distinctive song, woodpeckers bang on trees with their bills to create a sound called drumming. In a new study, researchers tested how woodpecker pairs perceived drumming to …read more Source:: Science
Likely biological link found between Zika virus, microcephaly
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•Working with lab-grown human stem cells, a team of researchers suspect they have discovered how the Zika virus probably causes microcephaly in fetuses. The virus selectively infects cells that form …read more Source:: Science
Bee brains as never seen before
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•Detailed exploration of tiny insect brains has become much easier using new methods for imaging and 3D image reconstruction. The researchers used this X-ray imaging to produce hundreds of image …read more Source:: Science
Four ways inheritance is more complex than Mendel knew
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•This year marks the 150th anniversary of Gregor Mendel’s publication that–after sitting ignored for a few decades–helped launch the field of modern genetics. Today, we know that inheritance is far …read more Source:: Science
SCO’s legal war against IBM and Linux comes to an end
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•SCO lost its legal battle against IBM and Linux long ago, but now the final shovel of dirt has been thrown on its lawsuits’ grave. …read more Source:: Linux
Back on Earth, U.S. astronaut faces science labs without the view
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – The return of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from the longest U.S. space mission on record will kick off a wave of medical tests and experiments …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
U.S. loses control of weather satellite, assigns backup: Air Force
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials have lost control over one of a series of satellites used to provide weather data to military aircraft, but the use of a backup satellite …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Hubble telescope’s latest find pushes back clock on galaxy formation
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Astronomers said on Thursday they had discovered a galaxy that formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang explosion, the most distant galaxy found …read more Source:: UKScienceNews