At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports. …read more Source:: Science
Month: March 2019
Genes that evolve from scratch expand protein diversity
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•A new study challenges one of the classic assumptions about how new proteins evolve. The research shows that random, noncoding sections of DNA can quickly evolve to produce new proteins. …read more Source:: Science
Few pathways to an acceptable climate future without immediate action
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•A new comprehensive study of climate change has painted over 5 million pictures of humanity’s potential future, and few foretell an Earth that has not severely warmed. But with immediate …read more Source:: Science
Mobile devices don’t reduce shared family time
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•The first study of the impact of digital mobile devices on different aspects of family time in the UK has found that children are spending more time at home with …read more Source:: Science
Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans discovered
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•A new article tells how researchers found — in the site of Hort de la Bequera (Margalef de Montsant, Priorat) — an artistic piece from 12,500 years ago in which …read more Source:: Science
Horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions
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•By analyzing troves of genetic data and considering a vast number of possible ways to examine it, scientists now have a high degree of confidence that horseshoe crabs do indeed …read more Source:: Science
Wide variations in how well or poorly people age
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•A new study reveals wide variations in how well or poorly people age. A 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people experience the health …read more Source:: Science
Listening to quantum radio
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•Researchers have created a quantum circuit that enables them to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. This new quantum circuit opens the door to possible future …read more Source:: Science
Windows 10, macOS get new Skype for Web: HD video, call recording but Linux misses out
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•It’s only for Windows 10 and macOS with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, so Firefox users also lose out. …read more Source:: Linux
‘Goldilocks’ stars may be ‘just right’ for finding habitable worlds
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•A new study finds a particular class of stars called K stars, which are dimmer than the Sun but brighter than the faintest stars, may be particularly promising targets for …read more Source:: Science