Researchers recently assessed subglacial lakes detected by satellite, and found very little water. But if that’s the case, what is the source of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet’s massive ice …read more Source:: Science
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Ultra-close stars discovered inside a planetary nebula
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•Astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably, the …read more Source:: Science
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
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•All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms could not exist. Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, …read more Source:: Science
Breakthrough opens door to smartphone powered $100 ultrasound machine
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•Engineers have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation — no bigger than …read more Source:: Science
Early opaque universe linked to galaxy scarcity
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•A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years ago, the most opaque place in the universe contained relatively little matter. …read more Source:: Science
Extinct vegetarian cave bear diet mystery unravelled
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•Until now, very little is known about the dietary evolution of the cave bear and how it became a vegetarian, as the fossils of the direct ancestor, the Deninger’s bear …read more Source:: Science
First mapping of global marine wilderness shows just how little remains
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•reporting in Current Biology on July 26 have completed the first systematic analysis of marine wilderness around the world. And what they found is not encouraging; only a small fraction …read more Source:: Science
Giraffes surprise biologists yet again
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•New research has highlighted how little we know about giraffe behavior and ecology. …read more Source:: Science
Laws of attraction: Pollinators use multiple cues to identify flowers across continents
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•Although at least 75 percent of our crop species depend on animal pollinators, little is known about their flower preferences. As global insect populations decline, it is of utmost importance …read more Source:: Science
Small collisions make big impact on Mercury’s thin atmosphere
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•Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers. …read more Source:: Science