A transplantation experiment in moths shows how the brain experiences reality through the senses. …read more Source:: Science
Day: January 27, 2016
Stellar parenting: Making new stars by ‘adopting’ stray cosmic gases
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•Astronomers have for the first time found young populations of stars within globular clusters that have apparently developed courtesy of star-forming gas flowing in from outside of the clusters themselves. …read more Source:: Science
Prenatal exposure to flame retardants linked to poorer behavioral function in children
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•New research suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants and perfluoroalkyl substances commonly found in the environment may have a lasting effect on a child’s cognitive and behavioral development, known …read more Source:: Science
Honeybees, ants may provide clues to suicide in humans
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•Researchers have been examining scientific knowledge and drawing parallels between suicide in humans and the self-sacrificial behaviors of colony-like — or eusocial — species such as shrimp, mole rats and …read more Source:: Science
The mainframe lives on in IBM’s LinuxONE
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•If you want Big Blue to run your private or hybrid cloud, IBM has the Linux software partners — Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE — and mainframes for you. …read more Source:: Linux