Oldest pine fossils reveal fiery past
Scientists have found the oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today.
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2016
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New scheduling optimisation tool for handball, football and volleyball tournaments
With help from SINTEF, the northern Norwegian company Profixio is aiming to become a world leader in fixture scheduling for handball, football and volleyball tournaments.
Engineering
Mar 11, 2016
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Image: First contact with Ariane 5
Ariane 5 flight VA229 lifted off yesterday morning at 05:20 GMT (02:20 local time, 06:20 CET) from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to deliver a telecom satellite into geostationary orbit.
Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2016
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Research resolves old polymorphism puzzle
The coexistence within species of two or more different forms has puzzled biologists for more than a century. According to evolutionary theory, natural selection should remove inferior individuals from the population, and ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2016
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Unlocking the secrets of the brain's intelligence to develop smarter technologies
Of all the fast and powerful computers in the world, our brain remains by far the most impressive. Now an interdisciplinary team of scientists, led by Baylor College of Medicine, aims to reveal the computational building ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 11, 2016
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'Sticky waves'—molecular interactions at the nanoscale
Like the gravitational forces that are responsible for the attraction between the Earth and the moon, as well as the dynamics of the entire solar system, there exist attractive forces between objects at the nanoscale.
Nanophysics
Mar 11, 2016
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Warning that Antarctic ice sheet a 'sleeping giant'
New research has led to a warning from a leading Antarctic expert that the world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from the melting of an ice sheet.
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2016
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Scientists attribute rising methane levels to agriculture
A breakthrough in understanding about the causes of climate change has today been published online in the prestigious international journal Science.
Environment
Mar 11, 2016
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Molecular experiment reverses evolution in birds obtaining a dinosaur-like lower leg
Anyone who has eaten roasted chicken can account for the presence of a long, spine-like bone in the drumstick. This is actually the fibula, one of the two long bones of the lower leg (the outer one). In dinosaurs, the ancestors ...
Evolution
Mar 11, 2016
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Collective memory in bacteria
Individual bacterial cells have short memories. But groups of bacteria can develop a collective memory that can increase their tolerance to stress. This has been demonstrated experimentally for the first time in a study by ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 11, 2016
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