Higher levels of greenness (trees, park space and other vegetation) in neighborhoods is linked with significantly lower chronic illnesses, diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, public health researchers has shown. The …read more Source:: Science
Day: April 21, 2016
Ubuntu Linux 16.04 is here
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•Who’s ready for the next long-term support version of Ubuntu? There’s something new here whether you use Ubuntu on the desktop, server, cloud, smartphone, tablet, or mainframe. Yes, mainframe. …read more Source:: Linux
Volcanoes tied to shifts in Earth’s climate over millions of years
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•A new study reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate-tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions …read more Source:: Science
New molecule-building method opens vast realm of chemistry for pharma and other industries
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•Scientists have devised a new molecule-building method likely to have a major impact on the pharmaceutical industry and other chemistry-based enterprises. The method allows construction of novel, complex and potentially …read more Source:: Science
Giant dinosaurs hatched with adult-like proportions
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•Analysis of a new dinosaur fossil suggests that the largest species ever known to walk the Earth was born with adult-like proportions, perhaps allowing it to be more independent than …read more Source:: Science
Chemists shed new light on global energy, food supply challenge
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•All living things require nitrogen for survival, but the world depends on only two known processes to break nitrogen’s ultra-strong bonds to allow conversion to a form humans, animals and …read more Source:: Science
Farming amoebae carry around detoxifying food
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•The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum can farm symbiotic bacteria for food by carrying them from generation to generation. New research shows that these bacteria can also protect the amoeba from …read more Source:: Science
Do gut microbes shape our evolution?
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•Our gut microbes are key to our health, but they may also shape our evolution, according to a new hypothesis. Expanding on the concept of the hologenome — the host …read more Source:: Science
DNA proves mammoths mated beyond species boundaries
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•New research examining the DNA of North American mammoths challenges the way we categorize a species. Several species of mammoth are thought to have roamed across the North American continent. …read more Source:: Science
Giant plankton gains long-due attention
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•A team of marine biologists and oceanographers have revealed the importance in all the world’s oceans of a group of large planktonic organisms called Rhizaria, which had previously been completely …read more Source:: Science