Despite individual animals having their own personality, this gets suppressed when they make decisions together in a group, new research has found. …read more Source:: Science
Day: September 16, 2016
What dinosaurs’ color patterns say about their habitat
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After reconstructing the color patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning “parrot lizard,” a reference to its parrot-like beak) was light …read more Source:: Science
New project runs Arch Linux on Windows
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By Serdar Yegulalp “Experimental” is a great adjective for Microsoft’s WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Besides being Microsoft’s attempt to lure Linux devs into making themselves comfortable in Windows, it also provides a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Gut pathogens thrive on body’s tissue-repair mechanism
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Why do some foodborne bacteria make us sick? A new study has found that pathogens in the intestinal tract cause harm because they benefit from immune system responses designed to …read more Source:: Science
Solar system could have evolved from poorly mixed elemental soup
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Chondrite meteorites contain a puzzling mismatch in isotopic composition with Earth’s crust. The mismatch puzzles scientists because they long believed that Earth formed from planetary objects similar to meteorites. A …read more Source:: Science
Frogs and grasshoppers: Why do legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness?
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New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than …read more Source:: Science
Freshwater stingrays chew their food just like a goat
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A new study has found that some freshwater stingrays from the Amazon chew their food in a similar fashion as mammals. …read more Source:: Science
Origin of minor planets’ rings revealed
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A team of researchers has clarified the origin of the rings recently discovered around two minor planets known as centaurs, and their results suggest the existence of rings around other …read more Source:: Science