A team of researchers says it has linked sensitivity to an allergen in red meat to the buildup of plaque in the arteries of the heart. While high saturated fat …read more Source:: Science
Month: June 2018
Endocrine-disrupting pesticides impair frog reproduction
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•In a new study, researchers have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the West African clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis. The scientists found that linuron, which is used …read more Source:: Science
Long suspected theory about the moon holds water
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•Scientists have discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot desert in northwest Africa. …read more Source:: Science
Decades of satellite monitoring reveal Antarctic ice loss
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•Scientists have reviewed decades of satellite measurements to reveal how and why Antarctica’s glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice are changing. Their report explains how ice shelf thinning and collapse …read more Source:: Science
Antarctica ramps up sea level rise
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•Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone. The …read more Source:: Science
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
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•A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface. …read more Source:: Science
How Red Hat Linux is helping reclaim the fastest supercomputer title for the US
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•It’s not just the chips in the Department of Energy’s record-breaking Summit supercomputer, which is setting new speed records; it’s also Red Hat Enterprise Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Environmental threats put bumblebee queens under pressure
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•Researchers found that environmental threats are piling onto the stress faced by nest-building bumblebee queens. …read more Source:: Science
The true power of the solar wind
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•The planets and moons of our solar system are continuously being bombarded by particles from the sun. On the Moon or on Mercury, the uppermost layer of rock is gradually …read more Source:: Science
Evidence for a new property of quantum matter revealed
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•A theorized but never-before detected property of quantum matter has now been spotted in the lab. …read more Source:: Science