Has there ever been an experiment to select for the smallest genome? How small could a functional genome be? |
- Has there ever been an experiment to select for the smallest genome? How small could a functional genome be?
- Do different blood types exist everywhere in the animal kingdom? Do plants have something such a blood type? What is its role in the evolution of life? I mean do we have theories or facts about when, why and how this specific characteristic of biologic life came out?
- How long do you have to be exposed to the sun to get the same dose of vitamin D as your daily supplements?
- Since CPUs and GPUs are good at two different areas of math, arithmetic and linear algebra respectively, is there research in creating different types of processors good for differential equations and even higher levels of math?
- Why do we reflexively prevent things from accidentally falling?
- Hubble Legacy Field - what do we know?
- If Las Vegas could recycle the water it uses, similar to the way Singapore does, then could they stop drawing water from Lake Mead and allow the lake’s water level to rise?
- Why do cultivars like kale, brussels sprouts and cauliflower remain the same species, despite looking entirely different from each other?
- How much is 90 billion barrels of oil? How long will this last?
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| Posted: 06 Nov 2020 07:34 AM PST While deep learning took off thanks a lot to better GPUs, it got me thinking if we could make other ML algorithms more viable by inventing processors good at other types of math that lend a hand to the aforementioned alternative ML algorithms. [link] [comments]  |
| Why do we reflexively prevent things from accidentally falling? Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:08 AM PST I accidentally knocked a bottle off a table, and before I realized it I had already caught it mid air. This got me wondering "why would something like this trigger such a strong reflexive response?". Is this a specific reflex that evolved to prevent us from dropping things (perhaps if our ancestors dropped their food to the ground they would be more likely to die from a disease), is it a specific manifestation of a more general type of reflex that made us better hunters, do we develop this reflex during childhood as we repeatedly face the consequences of accidentally dropping things, or is there another explanation? [link] [comments]  |
| Hubble Legacy Field - what do we know? Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:24 AM PST Dear /askscience community, Not that long ago I stumbled upon Hubble Legacy Field photo (full resolution in the link below) and I couldn't help but notice that it was extremely beautiful and mindboggling at the same time. When I took a closer look I found some galaxies colliding, and red shifts from distant galaxies and all these various shape and sizes etc. But what I want to ask you is do we know something about these galaxies so far? Are they named? What are the information we can extract from this enormous database? I would really love to have this picture with some sort of captions to help me manuver through this vast knowledge. I am extremely curios about ones like: 11312 px, 19200 px or 14852 px , 17778 px or 9820 px to 20722 px (what is this blast??) https://hubblesite.org/image/4492/news# Thank you, [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2020 12:53 AM PST Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface, but only 3 percent of that water is fresh. The first NEWater plant was set up in 2000 and has since been treating wastewater using microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultra-violet disinfection to convert wastewater to drinkable water. Singapore expects NEWater to meet up to 55 percent of the country's water demands by 2060. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:19 AM PST As an extension of the question: if we keep selectively breeding plants/animals for long enough, could we eventually create a new species somewhere, or is the barrier for entry too high? [link] [comments]  |
| How much is 90 billion barrels of oil? How long will this last? Posted: 06 Nov 2020 10:02 AM PST USGS 2008 assessment of the Estimates of undiscovered oil and gas north of the Arctic says there is:
BUT, how much truly is this?? Is there a way to put a picture of this estimate in Layman's terms? I'm not from a geology or petroleum background. I know this was almost 13 years ago, but it is the only assessment done (to public knowledge). [link] [comments]  |
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