Researchers investigating whether liquid water could exist on Mars have provided new insight into the limits of life on the red planet. …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2017
Learning and staying in shape key to longer lifespan, study finds
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•People who are overweight cut their life expectancy by two months for every extra kilogram of weight they carry, research suggests. A major study has also found that education leads …read more Source:: Science
What is Grafeas? Better auditing for containers
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The software we run has never been more difficult to vouchsafe than it is today. It is scattered between local deployments and cloud services, built with open source components that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Intense storms batter Saturn’s largest moon, scientists report
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•Titan, the largest of Saturn’s more than 60 moons, has surprisingly intense rainstorms, according to research by a team of UCLA planetary scientists and geologists. Although the storms are relatively …read more Source:: Science
Spotting the spin of the Majorana fermion under the microscope
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•Using a new twist on a technique for imaging atomic structures, researchers have detected a unique quantum property of the Majorana fermion, an elusive particle with the potential for use …read more Source:: Science
Baby talk in any language: Shifting the timbre of our voices
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•When talking with their young infants, parents instinctively use ‘baby talk,’ a unique form of speech including exaggerated pitch contours and short, repetitive phrases. Now, researchers have found another unique …read more Source:: Science
Genes responsible for diversity of human skin colors identified
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•A study of diverse African groups by geneticists has identified new genetic variants associated with skin pigmentation. The findings help explain the vast range of skin color on the African …read more Source:: Science
Engineers develop a programmable ‘camouflaging’ material inspired by octopus skin
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•Engineers have invented stretchable surfaces with programmable 3-D texture morphing, a synthetic ‘camouflaging skin’ inspired by studying and modeling the real thing in octopus and cuttlefish. …read more Source:: Science
Giant exoplanet hunters: Look for debris disks
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•There’s no map showing all the billions of exoplanets hiding in our galaxy — they’re so distant and faint compared to their stars, it’s hard to find them. Now, astronomers …read more Source:: Science
New type of stem cell line produced offers expanded potential for research and treatments
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•Researchers have created expanded potential stem cells (EPSCs) in mice, for the first time, that have a greater potential for development than current stem cell lines. These stem cells have …read more Source:: Science