CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) – A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, sending a U.S.-Russia crew to the International Space Station for a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Month: March 2015
3-D human skin maps aid study of relationships between molecules, microbes and environment
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•Researchers have produced 3-D maps of molecular and microbial variations across the body. These maps provide a baseline for studies of the interplay between the molecules that make up our …read more Source:: Science
Climate-related disruptions of marine ecosystems: Decades to destroy, millennia to recover
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•A new study reports that marine ecosystems can take thousands, rather than hundreds, of years to recover from climate-related upheavals. The study’s authors analyzed thousands of invertebrate fossils to show …read more Source:: Science
Hands-On: Linux UEFI multi-boot part three, problem solving
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•A look at special cases and uncooperative distributions – problem solving in Linux UEFI Multi-Boot …read more Source:: Linux
Earthlike ‘Star Wars’ tatooines may be common
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•Luke Skywalker’s home in “Star Wars” is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets have been identified circling such …read more Source:: Science
Will open source save the Internet of Things?
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•By Maria Korolov To some degree, open source is already present throughout the Internet of Things value chain. Cloud apps that collect and analyze data are heavily dependent on open source software and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open Source Mandatory for Indian Government Projects
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•By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) I’ve written about the potential for open source in China several times, and the same can be said about India. Here’s some big news on that front, just announced by …read more Source:: Open Source
New compounds could offer therapy for multitude of diseases
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•An international team of more than 18 research groups has demonstrated that the compounds they developed can safely prevent harmful protein aggregation in preliminary tests using animals. The findings raise …read more Source:: Science
Do biofuel policies seek to cut emissions by cutting food?
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•A new study found that government biofuel policies rely on reductions in food consumption to generate greenhouse gas savings. …read more Source:: Science
Primordial sea creature with spiky claws unearthed in Canada
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fossil site in the Canadian Rockies that provides a wondrous peek into life on Earth more than half a billion years ago has offered up the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews