http://feed.informer.com/digests/MQCJ8MZJHI/feeder Science News Respective post owners and feed distributors Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:53:08 -0600 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ https://www.space.com/34-image-day.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:2c6ab42c-aaf7-7e5e-ca80-c7a38d79d183 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:00:00 -0500 This image from the Cerberus Fossae region on Mars offers a unique perspective from just above a crater floor. The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter captured this image using a high-resolution stereo camera. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115551.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:a1b16724-0779-311e-2b07-fa703768dcbb Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:51 -0500 In the modern world, people cooperate with other people including strangers all the time. We give blood, tip providers of various services, and donate to charity even though there is seemingly nothing in it for us. Now, researchers who've studied Hadza hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania over a six-year period have new and surprising insight into why people work together. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115545.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:03b1804d-d5e6-137c-53e3-41c4ad033f29 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:45 -0500 What prevents our cells being damaged due to overexposure to iron ions is a protein called lactoferrin, known for its ability to bind tightly to such ions. Researchers used a combined experimental and molecular dynamics simulation to study the changes in the structure of lactoferrin as it binds to iron ions. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115540.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:e16cf930-32da-f86e-8571-2d12cbe761b5 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:40 -0500 Hookworms exploit a live fast/die young strategy in their South American fur seal pup hosts. As a result, they often kill their host, rather than finding a happy equilibrium. Scientists are concerned that this type of hookworm infection could eventually pose a risk to critically endangered populations of fur seals. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115537.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:e2a72d9a-4b9a-9db4-0c22-2a7eaf24702e Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:37 -0500 Astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the center of the billion-light year distant galaxy PG211+143. The team used data from the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton to observe the black hole. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115531.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:7a994e40-9f6e-f33f-4d1e-70d6ab3668b9 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:31 -0500 Although depression is one of the leading psychiatric disorders, its cause remains unclear. A recent study found that those affected by depressive disorder have a larger hypothalamus compared to their healthy counterparts. This could explain why many sufferers show increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol and are very often afflicted with periods of tension. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115528.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:746ba329-ae3e-cb4b-1e41-00cbc3ea56ab Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:28 -0500 Body organs such as the intestine and ovaries undergo structural changes in response to dietary nutrients that can have lasting impacts on metabolism, as well as cancer susceptibility. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115526.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:3a04d8f6-e235-e49e-88d3-f2cdeec2fcfb Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:26 -0500 How do we know if we're looking at three apples or four? Researchers were able to demonstrate that some brain cells fire mainly for quantities of three, others for quantities of four and others for other quantities. A similar effect can be observed for digits: In humans, the neurons activated in response to a '2' are for instance not the same as the neurons activated for a '5'. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115523.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:d44c96ec-6203-19fc-8852-3c0cd3cb1d4b Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:23 -0500 Researchers have patented a smart seat cushion that uses changes in air pressure to redistribute body weight and help prevent the painful ulcers caused by sitting for long periods of time in a wheelchair. The same technology can be used to create prosthetic liners that adapt their shape to accommodate changes in body volume. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115521.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:a74a5092-61d1-fa2a-de69-81fbab6dddf7 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:21 -0500 A novel mathematical approach has uncovered that some animal cells have robust 12-hour cycles of genetic activity, in addition to circadian or 24-hour cycles. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920115516.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:f46a2083-12b2-21c2-d940-8ff8f1ef788e Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:55:16 -0500 Sample size (the number of individuals examined for a study) is the most important factor determining the accuracy of the study results. https://www.space.com/32286-space-calendar.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:a0d3a549-13e2-555e-e114-f46a19495018 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:48:00 -0500 Here's a guide to the major astronomical events of the next year, as well as space launches and milestones for spacecrafts already in travel. https://www.space.com/41889-spacex-moon-tourist-flight-vr-livestream.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:b886b7ee-94c1-4562-812d-1cb2e1e68b71 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:59:00 -0500 Only a lucky handful of artists, and an über-wealthy Japanese billionaire, will take a trip on a rocketship to the moon with SpaceX. But don't worry;, the moonshot won't just be televised; You'll get to experience it from Earth in virtual reality. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102207.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:d9eae3af-b766-d3c7-733c-52b312daba05 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:22:07 -0500 Women could enhance the development of their unborn child's eyesight and brain function by regularly eating fatty fish during pregnancy. This is the suggestion from a small-scale study. The research supports previous findings that show how important a prospective mother's diet and lifestyle choices are for the development of her baby. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102201.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:20ef368e-3e52-5d29-26a5-f4fe6546f960 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:22:01 -0500 A recent study finds that the tool most often used to assess the efficiency of nonprofit organizations isn't just inaccurate -- it is negatively correlated with efficiency. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102152.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:ad3a974a-7085-c73a-1200-04b3a0fd7c78 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:52 -0500 Scientists have found a way to boost the efficacy of the antimalarial drug artemesinin with the help of chemotherapy medicines. Artemisinin works through a 'double whammy' attack on the deadly parasite. The drug damages proteins in malaria parasites and clogs the parasite's waste disposal system, known as the proteasome, which chemo can target. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102141.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:b2a265c5-a95b-626b-4f67-18bdaa9ab226 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:41 -0500 People with deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) can substantially cut their risk of potentially debilitating complications by starting adequate compression therapy in the first 24 hours of DVT therapy (known as the acute phase of treatment), suggests a new study. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102138.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:057533e0-311f-2a10-c46b-b2130449d882 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:38 -0500 Targeted engineering projects to hold off glacier melting could slow down ice-sheet collapse and limit sea-level rise, according to a new study. While an intervention similar in size to existing large civil engineering projects could only have a 30 percent chance of success, a larger project would have better odds of holding off ice-sheet collapse. But the researchers caution that reducing emissions still remains key to stopping climate change and its dramatic effects. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102135.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:36cf7677-c863-b04e-ae79-23cc8bd1faa9 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:35 -0500 As early as the fourth grade, girls perform better than boys on standardized tests in reading and writing, and as they get older that achievement gap widens even more. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102132.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:156bd0a8-5e34-6a6b-eb68-b438b20d3082 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:32 -0500 Researchers have uncovered a previously unconfirmed population boom across South East Asia that occurred 4,000 years ago, thanks to a new method for measuring prehistoric population growth. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102122.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:754dda60-3520-7ba0-91e4-970d2e81043d Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:22 -0500 Researchers estimates only 3 to 4 percent of recorded fossil locations from across the globe are currently accounted for in published scientific literature. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102117.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:3dbc5996-1210-68b3-a232-5fa49b57a2ae Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:17 -0500 Researchers have used a novel approach for analyzing the central nervous system of a proto-vertebrate to identify a regulatory cocktail that induces the creation of dopaminergic neurons/coronet cells, a primitive version of the hypothalamus. The findings shed more light on how neurons differentiate into particular subtypes, with potential implications for the treatment of conditions such as Parkinson's disease. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102112.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:72ef65a5-851b-31f9-000b-98e501c1f77e Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:12 -0500 Researchers have developed both an ingenious, as well as a safe procedure for using the 'rotten egg' smelling and flammable gas, methanethiol, in certain chemical reactions. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102107.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:86c5cff3-570a-04c3-f267-3e4bfe4287bd Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:07 -0500 Cobalt mining comes at a great cost to public health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. New research reveals that children are particularly vulnerable: their urine and blood samples contain high concentrations of cobalt and other metals. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102105.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:74524bf7-b04e-f233-1a32-4035b73295f2 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:05 -0500 These gentle giants, which can grow up to 10 m in length, have been recorded jumping out of the water as high and as fast as great white sharks. Marine biologists are unsure why they do this, but have pointed to this phenomenon as evidence of how much we still have to learn about marine life. https://www.space.com/41876-photons-before-after.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:f250793d-8af6-36e1-41da-b0839d051d5a Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:00 -0500 This is how something can be both "before" and "after" something else. https://www.space.com/41875-protodune-detector-first-signals.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:49cbe107-6775-d03c-d3b6-48e6a40055c9 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:20:00 -0500 An international group of physicists has announced that they have seen the first signals in a cube-shaped detector called ProtoDUNE. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920101605.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:9fbd51b5-57da-bac4-9585-8f6be9072424 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:16:05 -0500 Scientists know that upward currents of warm air assist birds in flight. To understand how birds find and navigate these thermal plumes, researchers used reinforcement learning to train gliders to autonomously navigate atmospheric thermals. The research highlights the role of vertical wind accelerations and roll-wise torques as viable biological cues for soaring birds. The findings also provide a navigational strategy that directly applies to the development of UAVs. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920101141.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:a94a4159-ef98-1adf-b74c-74458e8c1852 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:11:41 -0500 The diagnosis of multi-resistant hospital pathogens is now possible in 45 minutes instead of 72 hours. Further research is necessary before the procedure is ready for clinical application. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920101110.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:1beccd9b-2753-174b-a719-13e6ab449c08 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:11:10 -0500 Corals devastated by climate change are being replaced naturally by other species such as gorgonians, which are less efficient in acting as a carbon sink. A study has analyzes for the first time why gorgonians are more resistant than corals to human impacts and global climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920101101.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:44b2a106-d955-5e5d-9774-b47bbf69f374 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:11:01 -0500 The STING protein is normally an important part of our immune system, but in some autoimmune diseases it is itself the source of the disease. The pharmaceutical industry is therefore engaged in a race to find a drug that can inhibit STING. Now, researchers may have found it. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920075900.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:6a26ee42-3b60-4816-1e96-1b9027c961ee Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:59:00 -0500 Scientists have discovered a genetic mutation in humans linked to a 17-fold increase in the amount of dangerous fungal spores in the lungs. The study could allow doctors to screen patients at risk from Aspergillus, and could easily be developed into a test. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920075857.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:bf7a266d-e0ca-1d7d-dad9-cea4eb6d05c0 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:58:57 -0500 A recent study of more than 100 years of river level records from the Amazon shows a significant increase in frequency and severity of floods. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920075857.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:0f1b335e-320a-1cfa-f290-a0d7ec73dfed Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:58:57 -0500 A recent study of more than 100 years of river level records from the Amazon shows a significant increase in frequency and severity of floods. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920075848.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:88603e6c-1565-c797-e692-00cf4d069128 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:58:48 -0500 A few minutes of high-intensity interval or sprinting exercise may be as effective as much longer exercise sessions in spurring beneficial improvements in mitochondrial function, according to new research. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920075846.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:de803e40-2277-b6dc-679a-bbdf7f7e3bde Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:58:46 -0500 About one person out of 500 has a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). This condition causes thickening of the heart muscle and results in defects in the heart's electrical system. Under conditions of environmental stress such as exercise, HCM can result in sudden death. In other cases, patients may go undiagnosed, with their heart function declining gradually over decades. https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:8dfa5a1e-bade-4030-5f71-4edbed174c97 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:25:00 -0500 On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series. https://www.space.com/41887-mars-radiation-too-much-for-astronauts.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:53d71924-5d91-e429-5623-2d1eb7c6cbf3 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:22:00 -0500 There are plenty of challenges to putting people on Mars, whether you look at the rocket, the astronaut or the planet itself. https://www.space.com/41886-why-nasa-needs-new-logo.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:2bad63ff-fc89-df3d-92a5-a0780e9e27e8 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:03:00 -0500 As NASA celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, this seems like a good time for the agency to update its antiquated logo. https://www.space.com/41881-dearmoon-art-project-spacex-moon-artists-respond.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:e862a9aa-cd3c-5c06-6356-e41ee8d52c4c Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:00:00 -0500 When Elon Musk announced the first passenger to buy a trip around the moon on his yet-to-be-built rocket, there was a plot twist: That passenger, a Japanese billionaire, wanted to bring half a dozen artists on the journey with him. https://www.space.com/41888-new-mexico-observatory-closure-child-porn-investigation.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:76f9ddaf-5b87-7b5e-26fc-546a187813ea Thu, 20 Sep 2018 01:50:00 -0500 An FBI investigation into child pornography caused the peculiar closure of a New Mexico solar observatory earlier this month, according to the news agency Reuters. https://www.space.com/41892-hayabusa2-asteroid-rover-landing-real-time-photos.html SPACE.com urn:uuid:e2400d84-b8e2-591d-65a6-87db75f9cde6 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:35:00 -0500 A Japanese spacecraft is just hours away from a historic attempt to land two tiny hopping robots on the big asteroid Ryugu, and you can see near real-time photos of the spaceflight action. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919195906.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:49d8ee6f-21f7-9af6-75d4-afdfeed5aec2 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:59:06 -0500 Using observational and model-based data spanning the entire 20th century, scientists have for the first time have identified three broadly-categorized processes responsible for Earth's spin axis drift -- contemporary mass loss primarily in Greenland, glacial rebound, and mantle convection. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919154146.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:46b2cde6-038b-9640-cb43-ef00f381c509 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:41:46 -0500 Worldwide efforts to make sodium-ion batteries just as functional as lithium-ion batteries have long since controlled sodium's tendency to explode, but not yet resolved how to prevent sodium-ions from 'getting lost' during the first few times a battery charges and discharges. Now, researchers made a sodium powder version that fixes this problem and holds a charge properly. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919154143.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:1e88b62c-cae9-e3f1-d455-ce6e300aa415 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:41:43 -0500 New research shows that data routinely collected by health care companies -- if made available to researchers and public health agencies -- could enable more accurate forecasts of when the next flu season will peak, how long it will last and how many people will get sick. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919144923.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:b9a6a2e2-dfed-2946-6aa4-de8f339519f6 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:49:23 -0500 Working in a competitive industry fosters a greater level of trust amongst workers, finds a new study. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919144920.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:a1bffca5-ec08-d43b-3fcd-abd6b36cce03 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:49:20 -0500 Princeton geologists used tiny zircon crystals found in volcanic ash to rewrite the timeline for the eruptions of the Columbia River flood basalts, a series of massive lava flows that coincided with an ancient global warming period 16 million years ago. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919144918.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:c63283ba-6799-3bc5-15f2-aa4672021509 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:49:18 -0500 When you think of robotics, you likely think of something rigid, heavy, and built for a specific purpose. New 'Robotic Skins' technology flips that notion on its head, allowing users to animate the inanimate and turn everyday objects into robots. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919144913.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:96465378-fc1e-358b-fb7b-95cb7a3e5475 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:49:13 -0500 Scientists report that DNA test results of large ivory seizures made by law enforcement have linked multiple ivory shipments over the three-year period, when this trafficking reached its peak, to the same network of dealers operating out of a handful of African ports. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919144910.htm ScienceDaily: Latest Science News urn:uuid:54d20fa0-7b44-9416-e089-e9718038e1ef Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:49:10 -0500 In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day in 2015, according to a new multi-national, multi-institute study. That dwarfs the ice's previous average speed of about 2 inches per day and has challenged scientists' assumptions about the stability of the cold ice caps dotting Earth's high latitudes.