New research shows how a single growth factor receptor protein programs the entire genome. The study provides evidence that it all begins with a single “master” growth factor receptor that …read more Source:: Science
Day: May 8, 2015
Engineers hand ‘cognitive’ control to underwater robots
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•For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map and monitor pockets of the ocean to track the health of fisheries, and survey marine habitats and …read more Source:: Science
Cooperative video game play elicits pro-social behavior, research finds
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•A new study examined aggressive behavior between subjects playing games cooperatively, competitively and by themselves. It seems playing video games cooperatively with others can lead to widespread benefits by making …read more Source:: Science
Learning from Openness: Partial Sharing is not Enough
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•By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) Recently, I wrote about the Open Humans Network, which aims to make it easier for people to share various forms of biological data. That’s become a hugely important area; the …read more Source:: Open Source
Traces of flowers placed on a Palaeolithic tomb
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•The burial of the so-called Red Lady, dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in El Mirón cave (Cantabria) in 2010. Unlike most Palaeolithic tombs this one is intact …read more Source:: Science
‘Make like a bat’: Two ears attuned to high frequencies help people find objects using echoes
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•The ability that some people have to use echoes to determine the position of an otherwise silent object, in a similar way to bats and dolphins, requires good high-pitch hearing …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat takes a stand against container fragmentation. With standards
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•Red Hat is trying to prevent containers from fragmenting and killing the community surrounding this game-changing technology. …read more Source:: Linux
The rise and rise of open source
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•By Simon Phipps The results from the annual Future Of Open Source survey are in, and they confirm everything we already knew: Open source is now the default. The survey reports that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Failed Russian spaceship falling fast, should burn up Thursday
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) – A Russian spaceship on a failed cargo run to the International Space Station is falling fast and expected to hit Earth’s atmosphere and burn up …read more Source:: UKScienceNews