COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) – United Launch Alliance will team with billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow to market and fly habitats for humans in space, a project that hinges on space …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: April 11, 2016
Brain on LSD revealed: First scans show how the drug affects the brain
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•For the first time, researchers have visualized the effects of LSD on the human brain. In a series of experiments, scientists have gained a glimpse into how the psychedelic compound …read more Source:: Science
Clean energy generated using bacteria-powered solar panel
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•For the first time ever, researchers have connected nine biological-solar (bio-solar) cells into a bio-solar panel. Then they continuously produced electricity from the panel and generated the most wattage of …read more Source:: Science
Social thinking in the infant brain revealed
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•An innovative collaboration between neuroscientists and developmental psychologists that investigated how infants’ brains process other people’s action provides the first evidence that directly links neural responses from the motor system …read more Source:: Science
Genes used to extend banana lifespan
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•Bananas never last very long — within a few days of buying them, the rot sets in. But now Israeli scientists have found a way to significantly slow the decomposition …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Neanderthals may have been infected by diseases carried out of Africa by humans
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•A review of latest genetic evidence suggests infectious diseases are tens of thousands of years older than previously thought, and that they could jump between species of ‘hominin.’ Researchers says …read more Source:: Science
Hot super-Earths stripped by host stars: ‘Cooked’ planets shrink due to radiation
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•Astrophysicists have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to new …read more Source:: Science
Torvalds: “I’m still working on” year of the Linux desktop, “I’ll wear them down”
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•The phrase “year of the Linux desktop” has been uttered for so many years that for some it has lost all meaning. But the creator of the Linux operating system …read more Source:: Linux