A research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain. Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns pain off, …read more Source:: Science
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Canonical returning 32-bit Ubuntu Linux support after gaming uproar
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•32-bit software should be functionally obsolete, but it turns out to live on in a 64-bit computing world. So, Canonical is putting 32-bit libraries back in to its next Ubuntu …read more Source:: Linux
Quantum gas turns supersolid
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•Researchers report on the observation of supersolid behavior in dipolar quantum gases of erbium and dysprosium. In the dysprosium gas these properties are unprecedentedly long-lived. This sets the stage for …read more Source:: Science
Yeast produce low-cost, high-quality cannabinoids
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•Synthetic biologists have created an enzymatic network in yeast that turns sugar into cannabinoids, including tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol, but also novel cannabinoids not found in the marijuana plant itself. The …read more Source:: Science
A tasty Florida butterfly turns sour
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•A 15-year study by entomologists found that, when living apart from the unsavory bug it mimics, the viceroy butterfly becomes yucky, making biologists rethink old theories about animal mimicry. …read more Source:: Science
Jumping genes shed light on how advanced life may have emerged
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•A previously unappreciated interaction in the genome turns out to have possibly been one of the driving forces in the emergence of advanced life. This discovery began with a curiosity …read more Source:: Science
How swarms of nanomachines could improve the efficiency of any machine
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•All machines convert one form of energy into another form – for example a car engine turns the energy stored in fuel into motion energy. Those processes of energy conversion, …read more Source:: Science
How turning down the heat makes a baby turtle male
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•Scientists have started to crack the 50-year-old puzzle of how temperature turns baby turtles male or female. Researchers show that cooler egg incubation temperatures turn up a key gene called …read more Source:: Science
Lab surprised to find its drug-delivery system can help even without drugs
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•A synthetic, injectable hydrogel developed to deliver drugs and encourage tissue growth turns out to have therapeutic properties all its own. …read more Source:: Science
Chimpanzees shown spontaneously ‘taking turns’ to solve number puzzle
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•A new study has shown chimpanzees spontaneously taking turns to complete a number sequencing task. …read more Source:: Science