LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – – Some 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: October 5, 2015
Heating up hair science
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•West Lafayette, IND (Reuters) Tahira Reid loves science. So she decided to use that passion to study one of her biggest causes of anxiety. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Ancient alga knew how to survive on land before it left water and evolved into the first plant
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•A team of scientists has solved a long-running mystery about the first stages of plant life on earth. …read more Source:: Science
Bacteria in the world’s oceans produce millions of tons of hydrocarbons each year
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•Scientists have calculated that millions of tons of hydrocarbons are produced annually by photosynthetic bacteria in the world’s oceans. …read more Source:: Science
How the brain recognizes objects
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•Using data from both humans and nonhuman primates, neuroscientists have found that neuron firing patterns in the IT cortex correlate strongly with success in object-recognition tasks. …read more Source:: Science
Incompetence, not Linux, is behind the XOR DDoS botnet
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•Linux is inherently more secure than Windows but a badly managed Linux server will still be more insecure than a well-administered Windows system. …read more Source:: Linux
Biofuel from whisky byproducts better than ethanol, says maker
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•A Scottish company has developed a commercial scale method of producing biofuel capable of fuelling cars from the unwanted residue of the whisky fermentation process. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Thus versus Calamares: Comparing Manjaro 15.09 installers
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•Manjaro Linux 15.09 has been released, so here’s a side-by-side look at the two GUI Installers included. …read more Source:: Linux
Nobel medicine prize awarded for work on parasitic diseases
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•STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work against parasitic diseases, the award-giving body said on Monday.<br …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Welsh stem cell firm wins fast-track filing path in Europe
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•LONDON (Reuters) – A biotech company founded by a Nobel prize winner has won the go-ahead from European regulators to begin the application process for conditional marketing authorization of a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews