Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists. …read more Source:: Science
Day: March 28, 2016
A sensitive subject: Researchers catalog patterns of vibration on skin of the hand are part of how we sense the world through touch
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•Patterns of vibration on the skin of the hand that are part of how we sense the world through touch have been cataloged, for the first time, by researchers. …read more Source:: Science
Expectation may be essential to memory formation
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•A theory that links memory encoding to expectations of future relevance may better explain how human memory works, according to psychologists. …read more Source:: Science
An ancient killer: Ancestral malarial organisms traced to age of dinosaurs
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•A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 100 million years ago, and the first vertebrate hosts of this disease were …read more Source:: Science
Biological mechanism passes on long-term epigenetic ‘memories’
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•According to epigenetics — the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly coded in our DNA — our life experiences may be passed on to our children and …read more Source:: Science
Moons of Saturn may be younger than the dinosaurs
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•New research suggests that some of Saturn’s icy moons, as well as its famous rings, might be modern adornments. Their dramatic birth may have taken place a mere hundred million …read more Source:: Science
The ‘Not Face’ is a universal part of language, study suggests
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•Researchers have identified a single, universal facial expression that is interpreted across many cultures as the embodiment of negative emotion. The look proved identical for native speakers of English, Spanish, …read more Source:: Science