New research using DNA from the fish bone remains of Viking-era meals reveals that north Norwegians have been transporting — and possibly trading — Arctic cod into mainland Europe for …read more Source:: Science
Month: August 2017
Record for fastest light pulse set
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•A research team has demonstrated a 53-attosecond X-ray flash, opening the door to shoot slow-motion video of electrons and atoms in living cells. …read more Source:: Science
Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch
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•Researchers have developed a device that can switch cell function to rescue failing body functions with a single touch. The technology, known as Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), injects genetic code into …read more Source:: Science
How do birds get their colors?
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•Birds exhibit an extraordinary diversity of plumage pigmentation patterns. It has been overlooked, however, that complex patterns can be produced only with the contribution of melanins because these are the …read more Source:: Science
Primordial black holes may have helped to forge heavy elements
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•Astronomers like to say we are the byproducts of stars, stellar furnaces that long ago fused hydrogen and helium into the elements needed for life through the process of stellar …read more Source:: Science
Unknown virus discovered in ‘throwaway’ DNA
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•A chance discovery has opened up a new method of finding unknown viruses. Researchers have revealed that Next-Generation Sequencing and its associated online DNA databases could be used in the …read more Source:: Science
Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance
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•An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to climate change is challenged in a new report. …read more Source:: Science
Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened
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•When trouble looms, the fish-scale geckos of Madagascar resort to what might seem like an extreme form of self-defense — tearing out of their own skin. Now, new research shows …read more Source:: Science
Source of Human Heartbeat Revealed in 3-D
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•A new way of producing 3-D data has been developed to show the cardiac conduction system — the special cells that enable our hearts to beat — in unprecedented detail. …read more Source:: Science
Twilight observations reveal huge storm on Neptune
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•Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double-take after pinpointing its location near Neptune’s equator, a region where no bright cloud has …read more Source:: Science