WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three major companies, citing the under-representation of minorities in science and technology fields, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in university admissions in …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: November 5, 2015
NASA drops Boeing from space station cargo competition
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. space agency NASA has dropped Boeing Co from a multibillion-dollar competition to fly cargo to the International Space Station and will delay selecting one …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere
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•NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, …read more Source:: Science
Managed bees spread and intensify diseases in wild bees
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•Wild pollinators are in decline across many parts of the world. To combat this, managed honey bees and bumblebees are frequently shipped in to provide valuable pollination services to crops. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists learn how some fish can supercharge their vision
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Superman can use his X-ray vision whenever the need arises. It turns out that in real life, some fish and amphibians can do something nearly as super …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Side by side: openSuSE Leap and Fedora 23
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•Two major Linux distributions have been released on consecutive days. I have loaded them both on several of my laptops, and here is what I found. …read more Source:: Linux