By Serdar Yegulalp Mesosphere, creator of DCOS — a management system for data centers that leverages the Apache Mesos cluster management project — is following in the footsteps of many other …read more Source:: OpenSource
Day: April 22, 2015
How do you tell a boy dinosaur from a girl dinosaur?
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For extinct creatures like dinosaurs known only from fossils, it is notoriously difficult to differentiate the males from the females of a species because sex distinctions are …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Sugary drinks boost risk factors for heart disease, study suggests
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•Beverages sweetened with low, medium and high amounts of high-fructose corn syrup significantly increase risk factors for cardiovascular disease, even when consumed for just two weeks by young, healthy men …read more Source:: Science
Genes make some people mosquito targets, twins pilot study shows
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•The likelihood of being bitten by mosquitoes could be down to our genes, according to a study carried out on twins. …read more Source:: Science
Stegosaurus plates may have differed between male, female
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•The first convincing evidence for sexual differences in a species of dinosaur has been described in a study of the iconic dinosaur Stegosaurus. …read more Source:: Science
Pesticide harms wild bees, unique field study shows
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•For the first time, a research project has investigated how a neonicotinoid pesticide, clothianidin, affects both honeybees and wild bees in an agricultural landscape. The study shows that honeybees can …read more Source:: Science
Tips from the frontline: Switching operating systems is almost never the answer to problems
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•One of the worst pieces of advice given to people looking for help and advice with computer problems is that they should switch to a different operating system. Here’s why, …read more Source:: Linux
First exoplanet visible light spectrum
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•Astronomers have made the first-ever direct detection of the spectrum of visible light reflected off an exoplanet. These observations also revealed new properties of this famous object, the first exoplanet …read more Source:: Science
As bright as a hundred million Suns: The clusters of monster stars that lit up the early universe
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•The first stars in the Universe were born several hundred million years after the Big Bang, ending a period known as the cosmological ‘dark ages’ – when atoms of hydrogen …read more Source:: Science
Calculating how the Pacific was settled: Sailing against prevailing winds, spotting big islands
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•Using statistics that describe how an infectious disease spreads, an anthropologist analyzed different theories of how people first settled islands of the vast Pacific between 3,500 and 900 years ago. …read more Source:: Science