Researchers have known for decades that fevers in the first trimester of pregnancy increase risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as cleft lip or palate. Exactly how …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 10, 2017
Humpback whale blow microbiome described
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•For the first time, scientists have identified an extensive conserved group of bacteria within healthy humpback whales’ blow — the moist breath that whales spray out of their blowholes when …read more Source:: Science
Purism Linux smartphone makes its $1.5 million crowdfunding goal
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•Want a pure Linux smartphone, no Android? Purism has the cash it needs to give it a try. …read more Source:: Linux
Breath instead of a blood test
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•Blow into the tube, please. In the future, the procedure will not just be used by police checking for alcohol intoxication, but also for testing the condition of athletes and …read more Source:: Science
Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule
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•Two of Earth’s five mass extinction events — times when more than half of the world’s species died — resulted in the survival of a low number of so-called ‘weedy’ …read more Source:: Science