CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) – A Space Exploration Technologies Dragon cargo capsule sailed away from the International Space Station on Thursday and headed for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.<br …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: May 21, 2015
Lockheed-Boeing rocket venture needs commercial orders to survive
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co, on Thursday said it would go out of business unless it won commercial …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
OpenStack isn’t just ready for enterprise adoption, it’s already there
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•Forrester still worries about OpenStack in the enterprise. For Best Buy, BMW, EBay, and Wal-Mart OpenStack is already mission-critical. …read more Source:: Linux
Lowly ‘new girl’ chimps form stronger female bonds
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•Low-ranking ‘new girl’ chimpanzees seek out other gal pals with similar status, finds a new study. The results are based on 38 years’ worth of daily records for 53 adult …read more Source:: Science
Mark Shuttleworth considering Canonical IPO
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•Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, revealed that he’s considering taking the company public. …read more Source:: Linux
Infections can affect your IQ
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•New research shows that infections can impair your cognitive ability measured on an IQ scale. The study is the largest of its kind to date, and it shows a clear …read more Source:: Science
Storms and microbes are behind the mystery of the wandering stones
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•The ‘sailing’ stones of Death Valley in California are famous for apparently moving by themselves, with the phenomenon not being exclusive to this North American desert but also occurring in …read more Source:: Science
The Bronze Age Egtved Girl was not from Denmark
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•One of the best-known Danish Bronze Age finds, the Egtved Girl from 1370 BC, was not born in Egtved, Denmark, reveals new research. Strontium isotope analyses of the girl’s hair, …read more Source:: Science
What would it take to limit climate change to 1.5°C by 2100?
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•A new study analyzes the required climate policy actions and targets in order to limit future global temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100. This level is …read more Source:: Science
‘Top 10’ new species includes cartwheeling spider, ‘chicken from hell’
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•NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some 18,000 species, great and small, were discovered in 2014, adding to the 2 million already known, scientists said on Thursday, as they released a “Top …read more Source:: UKScienceNews