The 205-million-year-old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to ‘one of the largest animals ever’ say a group of international paleontologists. The new discovery has also solved a 150-year-old …read more Source:: Science
Day: April 9, 2018
Why the Tasmanian devil might be more susceptible to transmissible cancers
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•Cancers that can jump from one animal to another of the same species are rare, but the endangered Tasmanian devil is doubly unlucky: in recent years, two transmissible cancers affecting …read more Source:: Science
Tiny nanomachine successfully completes test drive
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•Scientists have used nanostructures to construct a tiny machine that constitutes a rotatory motor and can move in a specific direction. The researchers used circular structures from DNA. …read more Source:: Science
Spoken language reveals how people develop and mature
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•Examining 44,000 brief text samples collected over 25 years, a study of ego level and language sheds light on ego development, its relationship with other models of personality and individual …read more Source:: Science
Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution
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•Highly mobile eyebrows that can be used to express a wide range of subtle emotions may have played a crucial role in human survival, new research suggests. …read more Source:: Science