With climate change, plants of the future will consume more water than in the present day, leading to less water available for people living in North America and Eurasia, according …read more Source:: Science
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Brave new world: Simple changes in intensity of weather events ‘could be lethal’
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•Faced with extreme weather events and unprecedented environmental change, animals and plants are scrambling to catch up — with mixed results. A new model helps to predict the types of …read more Source:: Science
Supercomputer shows ‘Chameleon Theory’ could change how we think about gravity
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•Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein’s theory of General Relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form. …read more Source:: Science
Pain free, thanks to evolution
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•African mole-rats are insensitive to many different kinds of pain. This characteristic has even allowed mole-rats to populate new habitats, researchers report. Thanks to a genetic change, the highveld mole-rat …read more Source:: Science
Counter-intuitive climate change solution
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•A seemingly counterintuitive approach — converting one greenhouse gas into another — holds promise for returning the atmosphere to pre-industrial concentrations of methane, a powerful driver of global warming. …read more Source:: Science
RHEL 8 released: It’s the last pre-IBM Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux
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•The name may not change once IBM gets its hand on RHEL, but this is the last hurrah of the independent Red Hat Linux powerhouse operating system. …read more Source:: Linux
How team sports change a child’s brain
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•Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research has linked …read more Source:: Science
Good dog? Bad dog? Their personalities can change
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•When dog-parents spend extra time scratching their dogs’ bellies, take their dogs out for long walks and games of fetch, or even when they feel constant frustration over their dogs’ …read more Source:: Science
Climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generation
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•In one generation, the climate experienced in many North American cities is projected to change to that of locations hundreds of miles away — or to a new climate unlike …read more Source:: Science
Transforming flat elastomers into 3D shapes
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•Researchers have developed a method to change the shape of a flat sheet of elastomer, using actuation that is fast, reversible, controllable by an applied voltage, and reconfigurable to different …read more Source:: Science