(Reuters) – Oklahoma geologists have documented strong links between increased seismic activity in the state and the injection into the ground of wastewater from oil and gas production, a state …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: April 21, 2015
Ubuntu 15.04 container-friendly Linux for cloud and servers arrives soon
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•Canonical, which has become a quiet cloud power, is releasing its next container-friendly Linux on April 23rd. …read more Source:: Linux
Likely cause of 2013-14 earthquakes: Combination of gas field fluid injection and removal
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•A seismology team finds that high volumes of wastewater injection combined with saltwater (brine) extraction from natural gas wells is the most likely cause of earthquakes near Azle, Texas, from …read more Source:: Science
Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second — over 15 billion years
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•In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping , the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stability levels that now mean the clock …read more Source:: Science
VMware buys into Linux containers with Lightwave and Photon
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•VMware is now a Linux distributor and invested more than ever in containers. …read more Source:: Linux
Babies feel pain ‘like adults’: Most babies not given pain meds for surgery
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•The brains of babies ‘light up’ in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering brain scanning study has discovered. It suggests that …read more Source:: Science
Sweet potato naturally ‘genetically modified’
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•Sweet potatoes from all over the world naturally contain genes from the bacterium Agrobacterium, researchers report. Sweet potato is one of the most important food crops for human consumption in …read more Source:: Science
Free home heating offered by e-Radiators
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•A Dutch energy firm is trailing a scheme that offers both the promise of free energy to home-owners and a cheap alternative to large data centers for computing firms. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews