Scientists have mapped the near-surface geology around Old Faithful, revealing the reservoir of heated water that feeds the geyser’s surface vent and how the ground shaking behaves in between eruptions. …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 5, 2017
Smartphone-controlled smart bandage for better, faster healing
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•Wireless microcontrollers release precise amounts of antibiotics, painkillers, growth factors or other medications. The bandage, which remains several years from market, could improve treatment of chronic skin wounds related to …read more Source:: Science
3-D quantum gas atomic clock offers new dimensions in measurement
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•Physicists have created an entirely new design for an atomic clock, in which strontium atoms are packed into a tiny three-dimensional cube at 1,000 times the density of previous one-dimensional …read more Source:: Science
Carbon feedback from forest soils to accelerate global warming
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•After 26 years, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed a surprising, cyclical response: Soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon release from …read more Source:: Science
What Earth’s climate system and topological insulators have in common
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•New research shows that equatorial waves — pulses of warm ocean water that play a role in regulating Earth’s climate — are driven by the same dynamics as the exotic …read more Source:: Science
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding
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•Early humans seem to have recognized the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to avoid it, new research has found. …read more Source:: Science