Batmobile revs up action in 'Arkham Knight' video game
The blockbuster "Batman: Arkham" video game franchise has a formidable new crime fighter: the Batmobile.
Software
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Image: Grand swirls from Hubble
(Phys.org) —This new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish). NGC 1566 is an intermediate spiral galaxy, meaning ...
Astronomy
Jun 12, 2014
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NASA takes Tropical Cyclone Nanuak's temperature
Tropical Cyclone Nanauk is holding its own for now as it moves through the Arabian Sea. NASA's Aqua satellite took its cloud top temperatures to determine its health.
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2014
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Movies with gory and disgusting scenes more likely to capture and engage audience
We know it too well. We are watching a horror film and the antagonist is about to maim a character; we ball up, get ready for the shot and instead of turning away, we lean forward in the chair, then flinch and cover our eyes ...
Social Sciences
Jun 12, 2014
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Scientists identify Deepwater Horizon Oil on shore even years later, after most has degraded
Years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil-soaked "sand patties," persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited ...
Environment
Jun 12, 2014
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Quantum computation: Fragile yet error-free
In a close collaborative effort, Spanish and Austrian physicists have experimentally encoded one quantum bit (qubit) in entangled states distributed over several particles and for the first time carried out simple computations ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 12, 2014
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Habitat fragmentation increases vulnerability to disease in wild plants
Proximity to other meadows increases disease resistance in wild meadow plants, according to a study led by Anna-Liisa Laine at the University of Helsinki. The results of the study, analyzing the epidemiological dynamics of ...
Ecology
Jun 12, 2014
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Study discovers link between climate change and ocean currents over six million years
Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate change and ocean currents over the past six million years after analysing an area of the Atlantic near the Strait of Gibraltar, according to research published today ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2014
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Father's age influences rate of evolution
The offspring of chimpanzees inherit 90% of new mutations from their father, and just 10% from their mother, a finding which demonstrates how mutation differs between humans and our closest living relatives, and emphasises ...
Evolution
Jun 12, 2014
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Long-range tunneling of quantum particles
The quantum tunnel effect manifests itself in a multitude of well-known phenomena. Experimental physicists in Innsbruck, Austria, have now directly observed quantum particles transmitting through a whole series of up to five ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 12, 2014
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