Infection with worms counters inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) by triggering immune responses that change the mix of bacteria, or microbiome, in the gut. …read more Source:: Science
Day: April 14, 2016
Chemical composition of dust from beyond the solar system analyzed
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•A dust detector on the Cassini space probe — known as the cosmic dust analyzer (CDA) — has identified several extremely rare and minuscule particles of interstellar dust from outside …read more Source:: Science
‘Winner-winner’ behavior may shape animal hierarchies, study argues
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•Researchers have developed a behavioral model that explains the complexity and diversity of social hierarchies in ants, and which scientists believe may help us understand the nature of other animal …read more Source:: Science
A new system for color vision
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•The swirling skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night illustrate a mystery that has eluded biologists for more than a century — why do we perceive the color blue in …read more Source:: Science
‘Trickle of food’ helped deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs
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•New evidence has been provided to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Apache Beam wants to be uber-API for big data
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•By Ian Pointer A long-standing joke about the Hadoop ecosystem is that if you don’t like an API for a particular system, wait five minutes and two new Apache projects will spring up …read more Source:: OpenSource