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Heston's food for thought
2016-11-10 01:02:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Why do we really like one type of food and cant stand the taste of something else? A summit of top chefs and scientists put food under the microscope.
Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought
2016-11-07 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Life took hold on land at least as early as 3.2 billion years ago, suggests a study by scientists from Berlin, Potsdam and Jena (Germany). The team led by Sami Nabhan of the Freie Universität Berlin studied ancient rock formations from South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt. These rocks are some of the oldest known on Earth, with their formation dating back to 3.5 billion years. In a layer that has been dated at 3.22 billion years old, tiny grains of the ir…
There may be 10 times more galaxies in the universe than we thought
2016-10-17 13:30:08| Extremetech
That's quite the margin of error.
Brics 'grew more than I thought', says Jim O'Neill
2016-10-14 13:48:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
As the Brics nations prepare to meet in India this weekend, Jim O'Neill, who coined the term for the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, reflects on their performance.
Greenland ice is melting 7 percent faster than previously thought
2016-10-14 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] COLUMBUS, Ohio—The same hotspot in Earth's mantle that feeds Iceland's active volcanoes has been playing a trick on the scientists who are trying to measure how much ice is melting on nearby Greenland. According to a new study in the journal Science Advances, the hotspot softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that ultimately distorted their calculations for ice loss in the Greenland ice sheet. This caused them to underestimate the mel…
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