Paleogeneticists have shown that early farmers from across Europe have an almost unbroken trail of ancestry leading back to the Aegean. …read more Source:: Science
Month: June 2016
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
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•Researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia.The work refutes an earlier landmark study that claimed to recover DNA sequences from the oldest known …read more Source:: Science
Pluto as a cosmic lava lamp: Giant convective cells continually refresh dwarf planet’s icy heart
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•Using computer models, New Horizons team members have been able to determine the depth of the layer of solid nitrogen ice within Pluto’s distinctive ‘heart’ feature — a large plain …read more Source:: Science
Expansion of kidney progenitor cells toward regenerative medicine
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•The kidney is a difficult organ to regenerate. However, in a big step forward for kidney regeneration research, a collaboration between scientists from Japan and the US has successfully demonstrated …read more Source:: Science
As temperatures rise, flowers emit less scent
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•The diverse and delicious fragrances of flowers brighten our days and inspire poetry. The more practical reason that flowers produce scent is to attract pollinating insects to the flowers’ reproductive …read more Source:: Science
‘Wasteful’ galaxies launch heavy elements into surrounding halos and deep space
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•Galaxies ‘waste’ large amounts of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and deep space, according to …read more Source:: Science
Debian 8.5 and Manjaro 16.06 arrive
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•Updated ISO images are available, but you only need them for a new installation. …read more Source:: Linux
Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection, study shows
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•The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, researchers report in a …read more Source:: Science
Personality changes can affect fish body shape, locomotion
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•Fish that are bred to be bolder or more shy show corresponding changes to their body shape and locomotion, suggesting that personality changes affect other seemingly unrelated traits. The findings …read more Source:: Science
Constructing shale gas sites
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•Extracting gas from shale rock not only causes environmental disturbances below ground, the surface infrastructure required to drill the wells can cause a variety of problems above ground, from fragmenting …read more Source:: Science