New research suggests evolution is a driving mechanism behind plant migration, and that scientists may be underestimating how quickly species can move. …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2016
Plastic ‘continents’: Is there a way out?
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•Plastic “continents” are not static. Based on the oceanic circulation modelling work conducted in the Pacific, researchers have recently shown that there are exit currents for these areas of the …read more Source:: Science
Earth’s mantle appears to have a driving role in plate tectonics
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•Deep down below us is a tug of war moving at less than the speed of growing fingernails. Keeping your balance is not a concern, but how the movement happens …read more Source:: Science
Songbirds’ epic migrations connected to a small cluster of genes
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•There is a genetic basis to the migratory routes flown by songbirds, scientists have found. The have now narrowed in on a relatively small cluster of genes that may govern …read more Source:: Science
Warnings of imminent extinction crisis for largest wild animal species
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•A team of conservation biologists is calling for a worldwide strategy to prevent the unthinkable: the extinction of the world’s largest mammal species. …read more Source:: Science
A minute of secondhand marijuana smoke may damage blood vessels
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•Rats’ blood vessels took at least three times longer to recover function after only a minute of breathing secondhand marijuana smoke, compared to recovery after a minute of breathing secondhand …read more Source:: Science
Spark 2.0 takes an all-in-one approach to big data
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Apache Spark, the in-memory processing system that’s fast become a centerpiece of modern big data frameworks, has officially released its long-awaited version 2.0. Aside from some major usability and …read more Source:: OpenSource
White dwarf lashes red dwarf with mystery ray
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•Astronomers have discovered a new type of exotic binary star: in the system AR Scorpii a rapidly spinning white dwarf star is powering electrons up to almost the speed of …read more Source:: Science
Seeing structure that allows brain cells to communicate
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•For more than a century, neuroscientists have known that nerve cells talk to one another across the small gaps between them, a process known as synaptic transmission. But the details …read more Source:: Science
Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes?
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•Binary black holes recently discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration could be primordial entities that formed just after the Big Bang, report Japanese astrophysicists. If further data support this observation, it …read more Source:: Science