Mice that had strokes rebounded significantly faster if they received low doses of a popular sleeping aid, according to researchers. Zolpidem, better known by the trade name Ambien, has long …read more Source:: Science
Month: December 2015
Containers, OpenShift, and Middleware
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•JBoss middleware is coming to Red Hat OpenShift in Docker containers. …read more Source:: Linux
Hubble telescope shows image of new ‘lightsaber’ star system
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•GREENBELT, Md. – NASA’S Hubble telescope captured an image of a baby star buried in interstellar gas and dust with massive jets emitting from it that seem to resemble a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
‘Virtual fossil’ reveals last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals
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•New digital techniques have allowed researchers to predict structural evolution of the skull in the lineage of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, in an effort to fill in blanks in the …read more Source:: Science
Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns before their food crumbles into stars, research shows
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•Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, …read more Source:: Science
Analysis of crickets’ jumps could lead to new, tiny robots
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•Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are dissecting crickets’ jumps, not with a scalpel, but with high-speed cameras to analyze their patterns of movement. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star
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•Just in time for the release of the movie “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. …read more Source:: Science
NuSTAR finds cosmic clumpy doughnut around black hole
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•The most massive black holes in the universe are often encircled by thick, doughnut-shaped disks of gas and dust. This deep-space doughnut material ultimately feeds and nourishes the growing black …read more Source:: Science
Scientists manipulate consciousness in rats
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•Scientists showed that they could alter brain activity of rats and either wake them up or put them in an unconscious state by changing the firing rates of neurons in …read more Source:: Science
Gene found in fruit flies explains how one species evolved into two
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•Evolutionary biologists may have solved a century-old evolutionary riddle: How did two related fruit fly species arise from one? …read more Source:: Science