Researchers have discovered an unexpected property of some nanostructured metals, could lead to new ways of ‘tuning’ their properties. …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2017
Earliest known marine navigation tool revealed with scanning technology
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•Details of the earliest known marine navigation tool, discovered in a shipwreck, have been revealed thanks to state-of-the-art scanning technology. …read more Source:: Science
Taste, not appearance, drives corals to eat plastics
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•Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because tiny bits of floating plastic look like prey. But a new study of plastic ingestion by corals suggests …read more Source:: Science
How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe
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•A new study explores the genetic legacy of ancient trysts between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans, with a focus on Western Asia, the region where the first relations …read more Source:: Science
Spots on supergiant star drive spirals in stellar wind
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•Astronomers have recently discovered that spots on the surface of a supergiant star are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind. …read more Source:: Science
Daydreaming is good: It means you’re smart
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•A new study suggests that daydreaming during meetings isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It might be a sign that you’re really smart and creative. People with efficient brains may have …read more Source:: Science
‘Mind-reading’ brain-decoding tech
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•Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind-reading technology. …read more Source:: Science
Smart birds: Canada geese give hunters the slip by hiding out in Chicago
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•It’s open season for Canada geese in Illinois from mid-October to mid-January. Unfortunately for hunters, Canada geese are finding a new way to stay out of the line of fire. …read more Source:: Science
Drug can dramatically reduce weight of people with obesity
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•A drug that targets the appetite control system in the brain could bring about significant weight loss in people with clinical obesity, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft adds multithreading to Node.js for compute-heavy apps
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•By Paul Krill Microsoft’s beta Napa.js runtime is offering multithreaded support for the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform, to provide the flexibility of JavaScript with speedy performance akin to C++’s. By introducing multithreading to …read more Source:: OpenSource