Tag: science
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A great day for science
Today has been a great day for science on both the scale of the very small as the very large. Not only did the NASA New Horizons spacecraft pass by Pluto, CERN today announced the discovery of a whole new particle: the pentaquark.
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Discovery: Fish live beneath Antarctica
Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight Source: Discovery: Fish Live beneath Antarctica An absolutely astonishing find from the web edition of Scientific American. In what has to be one of the most remote and extreme locations on Earth, scientists have not only…
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Now We Know How Many Craters Earth Has
And it’s a surprisingly low number! Have scientists found all of Earth’s impact craters? A surprising new study suggests that, indeed, that’s the case — at least for the big ones. Source: Now We Know How Many Craters Earth Has
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Don’t Believe In Evolution? Try Thinking Harder
An interesting research paper with findings that could be quite significant. If psychologist Will Gervais is on to something, it might help explain why debates concerning evolution between the scientifically minded and the religiously minded, tend not to get resolved. It’s not just that people are stubborn and it is hard to get them to…
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One gene may drive leap from single cell to multicellular life – life – 22 June 2015 – New Scientist
The question “why and how did life ever go from single cell lifeforms to multicellular life” has been a challenge to answer for biologists. It was thought that this was a giant evolutionary hurdle. New research suggests that this may actually be quite easy. If these findings hold up, we’ve taken an important step in…
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Cradle of creation: Evolution shapes up new ecosystem in the lab – life – 19 June 2015 – New Scientist
There are still opponents to evolution, most often found in religious circles. They are fond of claiming that evolution has never been observed by science. Well, here is a long running science experiment that has taken a strain of E. Coli bacteria through 60.000 generations. Monitoring the genetic changes in the organisms, the team running…