A new study has revealed a group of cells that function as a ‘brain’ for plant embryos capable of assessing environmental conditions and dictating when seeds will germinate. …read more Source:: Science
Month: June 2017
Tactile sensor gives robots new capabilities
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•Eight years ago, researchers unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact with an object to provide a remarkably detailed 3-D map of its surface. Now, by …read more Source:: Science
Why you must patch the new Linux sudo security hole
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•Ironically, only the most secure Linux server setups are vulnerable to this newly discovered hole. …read more Source:: Linux
Physicist builds on Einstein and Galileo’s work
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•Sixteenth century scientist Galileo Galilei threw two spheres of different mass from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to establish a scientific principle. Now nearly four centuries later, …read more Source:: Science
Molecular system for artificial photosynthesis
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•A molecular system for artificial photosynthesis is designed to mimic key functions of the photosynthetic center in green plants — light absorption, charge separation, and catalysis — to convert solar …read more Source:: Science
Cold brown dwarf discovered close to our solar system
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•A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a …read more Source:: Science
Antarctic ice rift close to calving, after growing 17km in 6 days, latest data from ice shelf shows
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•The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that …read more Source:: Science
Scientists try to crack the brain’s memory codes
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•In a pair of studies, scientists explored how the human brain stores and retrieves memories. One study suggests that the brain etches each memory into unique firing patterns of individual …read more Source:: Science
Gene therapy could ‘turn off’ severe allergies
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•A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by recent immunology research. …read more Source:: Science