Science and Technology

And it’s even more for sea otter mums. To raise a pup to independence, sea otter females spend 930 megajoules of energy, which is the equivalent of 133% of their energy reserves.

Dogs instinctively hide their discomfort from their owners, but a new smart collar can monitor their vital signs and SMS you the second something's up.

No, Nintendo didn't make these. They're microscopic suckers found on squid arms, and they're each about 400 micrometres wide - smaller than the width of a human hair.

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Titanium dioxide breaks down smog particles in the air, and students in the US have shown that in one year, one roof coated in it can break down the smog from a car that's driven 17,000 km. And every day, 21 tonnes of smog could be eliminated by one million treated roofs.

Even as Nasa's New Horizons space vehicle gears up to go to Pluto and its large moon Charon next year, researchers foretold totally different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon that might purpose towards underground liquid water — a necessary ingredient always.

If the icy surface of Pluto's large moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures might reveal if its interior was heat, maybe heat enough to own maintained a sub-terranean ocean of liquid water, the findings showed.

"This analysis offers USA a start on the New Horizons arrival — what ought to we glance for and what will we tend to learn from it," aforesaid Alyssa Rhoden of NASA's Goddard house Flight Centre in belt, Maryland.

"Our model predicts totally different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon betting on the thickness of its surface ice, the structure of the moon's interior and the way simply it deforms, and the way its orbit evolved," Rhoden added .

Pluto is a particularly distant world, orbiting the sun over twenty nine times farther than earth.

"Depending on specifically however Charon's orbit evolved, significantly if it went through a high-eccentricity part, there might are enough heat from recurrent event deformation to keep up liquid water to a lower place the surface of Charon for a few time

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It might look like a Sarlacc pit from Star Wars, but that monstrosity is the inside of a camel's mouth. Those fleshy projections protect the camel's cheeks from getting scratched by the dried leaves and sticks it feeds on.

Harmless neon dye reveals how incredibly efficient sea sponges are at pumping and straining water through their sticky 'choanocyte' cells. These simple creatures have got survival all figured out - some species can live to 15,000 years old.

On 24 December 2012, an amazing double helix cloud was spotted just outside Moscow in Russia. While it's still up for debate, a pilot's perfectly timed barrel roll could have been the cause

Called 'Fingersense', this new touchscreen technology can recognise four different types of inputs, giving you the versatility of a computer mouse on your mobile device

When chemistry and physics come together, it looks awesome.

How to Partition Hard Disk in Windows 7
If you wish to partition your disk into multiple numbers of logical units then the following steps will definitely help you. If you perform partition on your own then you can have your operating system separated from your data. This separation reduces data corruption risks.

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Crabeater seal teeth are probably the strangest in the entire animal kingdom. The odd shapes work as a sieve, filtering out microscopic organisms (the seals' main food source) from sea water.

Sony keeping Project immortal quiet till additional games square measure prepared

After Sony breezed past its Project immortal computer game telephone receiver throughout its E3 2014 conference, some folks were left somewhat bemused.

But currently Sony’s Britain manager Fergal Gara has same that additional details regarding the accent are disclosed once additional optimised games square measure on the market.

Talking to Digital Spy, Gara said: "I assume we have a tendency to square measure quite open and honest regarding wherever we have a tendency to square measure with immortal," he said. "We've have some nice technology, we've some demo experiences and we're tempting the event community to leap in and facilitate North American country form what nice experiences it'll be like for immortal.

"If you haven't had an opportunity to do it, I powerfully advocate you are doing. It very looks like technology that's maturing. however i believe that the gameplay experiences that individuals square measure reaching to love most and see the most effective more advantage in this VR telephone receiver, we do not very recognize nonetheless.

"We're tempting folks to return in and facilitate North American country realize those experiences and experiment. Once that is taken additional form, i believe the correct date for the market can reveal itself - essentially, once it's prepared."

Biologists have finally worked out why certain mossy plants are found only in the Arctic and at the tip of South America

Scientists have brought us one step closer to creating a non-evil version of Dr Octopus!

Largest Dam In The World "China's Three Gorges dam resists surging Yangtze floods

Nerds get their revenge at last! New research shows the cool kids at school don’t have it so good later in life

Romo App-Controlled Robotic Pet for iOS Devices - for iPhone 5, 5s & 5c

Globular clusters are made of up to 1 million stars. Their sky at night is 20 times brighter than the Earth’s, which means darkness is just a grainy twilight.

Scarlet kingsnakes have long copied deadly coral snakes to avoid predators. But since coral snakes disappeared 50 years go, the kingsnakes have surprisingly become even BETTER at mimicking the ghost species.