A new study reveals that water storage declines in global landlocked basins has aggravated local water stress and caused potential sea level rise. …read more Source:: Science
Month: November 2018
Force Push VR brings Jedi powers to life
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•Force Push provides a more physical, nuanced experience than traditional hand controllers allow in VR. It responds to the speed and magnitude of hand gestures to accelerate or decelerate objects …read more Source:: Science
Brilliant iron molecule could provide cheaper solar energy
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•For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The …read more Source:: Science
Great strides for carbon capture using earth-abundant elements as photocatalytic system
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•Researchers at Tokyo Tech have designed a CO2 reduction method based only on commonly occurring elements. Achieving a 57 percent overall quantum yield of CO2 reduction products, it is the …read more Source:: Science
Black hole ‘donuts’ are actually ‘fountains’
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•Based on computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple …read more Source:: Science
Newly discovered supernova complicates origin story theories
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•A supernova discovered by an international group of astronomers provides an unprecedented look at the first moments of a violent stellar explosion. The light from the explosion’s first hours showed …read more Source:: Science
First truly open-source smartphone? Necuno unveils its KDE on Linux handset
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•Necuno hopes its forthcoming Linux smartphone will offer users an escape from the walled gardens created by Google and Apple. …read more Source:: Linux
Toolbox for studying the existence of animal cultures
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•Fruit flies possess all of the cognitive capacities needed to culturally transmit their sexual preferences across generations, according to researchers. Their study provides the first experimental toolbox for studying the …read more Source:: Science
Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths
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•Rivaling the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs, one of the most extraordinary transformations in the history of life was the evolution of baleen — rows of flexible hair-like plates that …read more Source:: Science
Effective new target for mood-boosting brain stimulation found
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•Researchers have found an effective target in the brain for electrical stimulation to improve mood in people suffering from depression. Stimulation of a brain region called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex …read more Source:: Science