Scientists recently discovered the aptly named peacock jumping spiders have the color vision needed to appreciate the male’s gaudy display. Now biologists are studying whether that ability translates to the …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2018
Git might replace Mercurial for Java’s source-code management
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•By Paul Krill Developers participating in the evolution of standard Java may soon have a new source-code management system for the project, with the community set to investigate alternatives—including Git—to the current …read more Source:: OpenSource
Creating a (synthetic) song from a zebra finch’s muscle
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•Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues, and new research shows that these muscles act in concert to create sound. …read more Source:: Science
160-year-old mystery about the origin of skeletons solved
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•Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons. …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers assemble ‘light-fingerprints’ to unveil mysteries of the cosmos
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•Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using ‘light-fingerprints’ instead of skin grooves to uncover the mysteries of exoplanets. …read more Source:: Science
Plate tectonics not needed to sustain life
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•There may be more habitable planets in the universe than we previously thought, according to geoscientists, who suggest that plate tectonics — long assumed to be a requirement for suitable …read more Source:: Science
Hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began
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•All living things use the genetic code to “translate” DNA-based genetic information into proteins, which are the main working molecules in cells. Precisely how the complex process of translation arose …read more Source:: Science
Largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90%
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•The world’s biggest colony of king penguins is found in the National Nature Reserve of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF). Using high-resolution satellite images, researchers have detected a …read more Source:: Science
Memory-processing unit could bring memristors to the masses
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•A new way of arranging advanced computer components called memristors on a chip could enable them to be used for general computing, which could cut energy consumption by a factor …read more Source:: Science
Ever-increasing CO2 levels could take us back to the tropical climate of Paleogene period
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•A new study has warned that unless we mitigate current levels of carbon dioxide emissions, Western Europe and New Zealand could revert to the hot tropical climate of the early …read more Source:: Science