For most of the year, annual killifish persist as diapausing embryos buried in sediments across the African savannah. When rainwater fills small depressions across the landscape, the fish must hatch, …read more Source:: Science
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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
Video of moving discs reconstructed from rat retinal neuron signals
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•Using machine-learning techniques, a research team has reconstructed a short movie of small, randomly moving discs from signals produced by rat retinal neurons. …read more Source:: Science
Open source isn’t the community you think it is
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•By Matt Asay Name your favorite open source project, and the odds are good—very good—that a small handful of contributors account for the vast majority of significant development thereof. The odds are just …read more Source:: OpenSource
Specific set of nerve cells controls epileptic seizures’ spread through brain
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•Experimental activation of a small set of nerve cells in the brain prevents convulsive seizures in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy among …read more Source:: Science
Your gadget’s next power supply? Your body
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•Searching for a power outlet may soon become a thing of the past. Instead, devices will receive electricity from a small metallic tab that, when attached to the body, is …read more Source:: Science
Solving Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’: How flowering plants conquered the world
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•Researchers have found that flowering plants have small cells relative to other major plant groups, made possible by a greatly reduced genome size, and this may explain how they became …read more Source:: Science
Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo
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•Analyses on a small pebble found in south-west Egypt cast significant questions on a widely-held view about the primitive pre-solar dust cloud which our Sun, Earth and other planets were …read more Source:: Science
Life’s building blocks observed in spacelike environment
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•Where do the molecules required for life originate? It may be that small organic molecules first appeared on earth and were later combined into larger molecules, such as proteins and …read more Source:: Science
Bite on this: Alligators actually eat sharks
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•Jaws, beware! Alligators may be coming for you. A new study documents American alligators on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are eating small sharks and stingrays. This is the first …read more Source:: Science