Long-term observations with the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that Eta Carinae, a very massive star system that has puzzled astronomers since it erupted in a supernova-like event in the mid …read more Source:: Science
Day: September 2, 2016
‘Materials that compute’ advances as engineers demonstrate pattern recognition
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•The potential to develop ‘materials that compute’ has taken another leap, after researchers for the first time have demonstrated that the material can be designed to recognize simple patterns. This …read more Source:: Science
Placenta in females, muscle mass in males: Dual heritage of a virus
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•It was already known that genes inherited from ancient retroviruses are essential to the placenta in mammals. Scientists have now revealed a new chapter in this astonishing story: these genes …read more Source:: Science
Crop domestication is a balancing act: Some ants are still trying to get it right
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•The ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a bucolic existence on small-scale subsistence farms. A new study has revealed that living relatives of the earliest fungus-farming ants …read more Source:: Science
A strange thing happened in the stratosphere
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•High above Earth’s tropics, a pattern of winds changed recently in a way that scientists had never seen in more than 60 years of consistent measurements. …read more Source:: Science
First stars formed even later than previously thought
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•ESA’s Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This new analysis also shows that …read more Source:: Science
Jupiter’s north pole unlike anything encountered in solar system
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•NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show …read more Source:: Science