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Scientists make enzyme that could help explain origins of life http://ow.ly/2PRC59
Scientists make enzyme that could help explain origins of life
Mimicking natural evolution in a test tube, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised an enzyme with a unique property that might have been crucial to the origin of life on Earth.
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Fairy wren embryos found able to discern between adult calls http://ow.ly/2PQE44
Fairy wren embryos found able to discern between adult calls
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HaptoMime offers mid-air interaction system (w/ Video) - HaptoMime gives the word "touchscreen" a new meaning—one that will need to be carefully reworded, as HaptoMime involves a screen that you cannot touch. All the same, it enables interaction with floating images in the presence of ultrasonic tactile feedback. The proposed HaptoMime mid-air interaction system consists of four key components, the Aerial Imaging Plate, a liquid crystal display, an infrared touch sensor... http://ow.ly/2PQ7Lx
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Scientists resurrect 700-year-old viruses - Eric Delwart of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco and colleagues have found two 700-year-old viral sequences in frozen caribou dung in an arctic ice patch. The researchers isolated part of a viral RNA genome and the complete genome of a DNA virus. They infected living plants with the DNA virus. The study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://ow.ly/2PMVeA
Scientists resurrect 700-year-old viruses
(Phys.org) —Eric Delwart of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco and colleagues have found two 700-year-old viral sequences in frozen caribou dung in an arctic ice patch. The researchers isolated part of a viral RNA genome and the complete genome of a DNA virus. They infected living ...
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Beating battery drain: Power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life http://ow.ly/2PMmIm
Beating battery drain: Power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life
Stream video on your smartphone, or use its GPS for an hour or two, and you'll probably see the battery drain significantly. As data rates climb and smartphones adopt more power-hungry features, battery life has become a concern. Now a technology developed by MIT spinout Eta Devices could help a phone's ...
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In Amazon wars, bands of brothers-in-law - When Yanomamö men in the Amazon raided villages and killed decades ago, they formed alliances with men in other villages rather than just with close kin like chimpanzees do. And the spoils of war came from marrying their allies' sisters and daughters, rather than taking their victims' land and women. http://ow.ly/2PJTRJ
In Amazon wars, bands of brothers-in-law
When Yanomamö men in the Amazon raided villages and killed decades ago, they formed alliances with men in other villages rather than just with close kin like chimpanzees do. And the spoils of war came from marrying their allies' sisters and daughters, rather than taking their victims' land and women.
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New solar power material converts 90 percent of captured light into heat http://ow.ly/2PQOtg
New solar power material converts 90 percent of captured light into heat
A multidisciplinary engineering team at the University of California, San Diego developed a new nanoparticle-based material for concentrating solar power plants designed to absorb and convert to heat more than 90 percent of the sunlight it captures. The new material can also withstand temperatures greater ...
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A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots' minds http://ow.ly/2PQgRS
A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots' minds
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.
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Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped? http://ow.ly/2PO8SW
Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?
New research by physicists from Brown University puts the profound strangeness of quantum mechanics in a nutshell—or, more accurately, in a helium bubble.
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Researchers use cellphone data to construct population density maps http://ow.ly/2PMKGP
Researchers use cellphone data to construct population density maps
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of members with diverse, multi-national backgrounds has found a way to construct population density maps using cellphone data. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how they obtained the cellphone data, ...
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Chandra observatory identifies impact of cosmic chaos on star birth http://ow.ly/2PKEJk
Chandra observatory identifies impact of cosmic chaos on star birth
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(Phys.org) —The same phenomenon that causes a bumpy airplane ride, turbulence, may be the solution to a long-standing mystery about stars' birth, or the absence of it, according to a new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Light-matter interaction can turn opaque materials transparent http://ow.ly/2PJiGv
Light-matter interaction can turn opaque materials transparent
(Phys.org) —All objects' colors are determined by the way that light scatters off of them. By manipulating the light scattering, scientists can control the wavelengths at which light is transmitted and reflected by objects, changing their appearance.
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