A BLAST from the past has left tantalising hints that volcanic eruptions could be predicted decades in advance. Volcanoes can signal their intent to erupt days or months ahead of time, giving authorities a chance to evacuate the area. Now evidence of the events leading up to a Bronze Age eruption suggests it might be [...]
Read the rest of this story »A new planet, probably a rocky super-Earth has been found squarely within its star’s habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say. The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. Binary pair of orange dwarf stars are [...]
Read the rest of this story »Some mammals need roughly 24 million generations to go from mouse-size to elephant-size, a new study says. Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years—and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer than shrinking. It takes a minimum of 1.6 million generations [...]
Read the rest of this story »Astronomers have created the world’s largest virtual optical telescope, linking four telescopes in Chile so that they operate as a single device. The telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory form a virtual mirror of 130m (424ft) in diameter. A previous attempt to link the telescopes last March failed. Thursday’s link-up [...]
Read the rest of this story »Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words, software is [...]
Read the rest of this story »Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Facebook has already discussed proposals with unidentified advertising agencies for displaying what it calls “featured stories” in the news feed seen by users on the site [...]
Read the rest of this story »Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its products in Germany. Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store earlier on monday after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after [...]
Read the rest of this story »Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports. The research, published in the British medical journal, the Lancet, suggests 1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010. This compares to a World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate for 2010 of 655,000 deaths. But both the new study [...]
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