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CONTRIBUTOR:
. My last post (Unhappy thoughts on student projects at SVPCA 2015) was
stupid and ill-judged. As a result of very helpful conversations with a senior
palaeontologist (who was much more courteous about it that he or she needed to
be), I have decided to retract that article rather than editing...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . October is coming. Guess what
happens then. NO not Halloween but when businesses who accept credit cards via
swiping them must have upgraded their credit card processing devices to the new
credit card standards. To combat fraud banks are mandating that your business
accept credit cards with a “chip” –...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. www.bitsofscience.org Normally we think of droughts over South East Asia
(i.e. Borneo) and north-eastern Australia (Queensland) associated with strong El
Niño events. This for instance led to dramatic fires through the tropical
rainforests of Borneo, during the last ‘Super El Niño’ … Continue reading →
www.bitsofscience.org...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . ZME Science It's been only a
decade since the Human Genome Project finished its task of mapping all the code
that makes up our DNA. The hard part came later, though - identifying what each
piece of code does or, oddly enough, does not. According to the most recent
estimate...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes
Project reveals traces of standing stones beneath Durrington Walls super-henge
The remains of a major new prehistoric stone monument have been discovered less
than three kilometres from Stonehenge. Using cutting edge, multi-sensor
technologies the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project has revealed evidence for
a large stone monument...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. The stars are aligning and it appears quite likely that Google will be
announcing its new Nexus smartphones, one from LG and one from Huawei, at an
event in San Francisco on September 29th. As has been the case before, the
announcement of the device doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Is $35 for a Raspberry Pi too
rich for you blood? Do you prefer using sparsely-supported but cheap single
board computers? Are you willing to ignore the obviously goofy name “Orange Pi?”
Then have we got something for you. The Orange Pi PC is a new single board
machine that...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . ZME Science Animal behavior
specialists at the University of Lincoln found in a recent study that adult
domestic cats do not view owners as the main provider of security and safety,
the way dogs do for example. The paper was published in the science journal PLOS
ONE this week and...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The earliest Roman military
camps discovered in Carnuntum were found by georadar measurements Carnuntum is
the largest archaeological landscape in Central Europe. Almost the entire Roman
town, which covered more than ten square kilometres of area in antiquity, is
still preserved under fields and vineyards some 40 km to the...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Methylmercury, a potent
neurotoxin, is especially high in Arctic marine life but until recently,
scientists haven't been able to explain why. Now, research from the Harvard John
A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health suggests that high levels of methylmercury...
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