Scientists are driving three-wheeled, single-molecule “nanoroadsters” with light and, for the first time, seeing how they move. …read more Source:: Science
Day: November 4, 2016
Detour via gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible
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•Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole …read more Source:: Science
Tsunami of stars and gas produces dazzling eye-shaped feature in galaxy
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•Astronomers have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This colossal wave of material — …read more Source:: Science
Universal principles of phase transitions confirmed
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•New research has confirmed a decades-old theory describing the dynamics of continuous phase transitions. The findings provide the first clear demonstration of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for a quantum phase transition …read more Source:: Science
How each one of us contribute to Arctic sea ice melt
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•Measurements reveal the relationship between individual CO2 emissions and the Arctic’s shrinking summer sea ice. For each ton of carbon dioxide that any person on our planet emits, three square …read more Source:: Science
Admins, update your databases to avoid the MySQL bug
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid MySQL, MariaDB, and PerconaDB administrators need to check their database versions, as attackers can chain two critical vulnerabilities and completely take over the server hosting the database. The two critical vulnerabilities, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Physicist demonstrate existence of ‘unlikely’ new subatomic structure
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•Researchers have demonstrated the existence of a tetraneutron, a subatomic structure once thought unlikely to exist. …read more Source:: Science
Graphic pictures on cigarette packs would significantly reduce smoking death rate
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•Using prominent, graphic pictures on cigarette packs warning against smoking could avert more than 652,000 deaths, up to 92,000 low birth weight infants, up to 145,000 preterm births, and about …read more Source:: Science
Plumage evolution: Explaining the vivid colors of birds
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•Tropical birds are well known for their colorful appearance: vibrantly colored macaws, parakeets and parrots are widely considered to be the quintessential birds of this region. The popularity of these …read more Source:: Science
Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies
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•Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts, an international study based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time. In dinosaurs, however, there …read more Source:: Science