Looking through the eyes of zebra predators, researchers found no evidence supporting the notion that zebras’ black and white stripes are for protective camouflage or that they provide a social …read more Source:: Science
Month: January 2016
Linux Foundation leadership controversy erupts
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•A debate has sprung up in Linux circles over whether the Linux Foundation is serving individual open-source users or its corporate sponsors. …read more Source:: Linux
Newly discovered star offers opportunity to explore origins of first stars sprung to life in early universe
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•A team of researchers has observed the brightest ultra metal-poor star ever discovered. The star is a rare relic from the Milky Way’s formative years. As such, it offers astronomers …read more Source:: Science
Hand-on with Kali Linux Rolling
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•Kali Linux, long known as a premier security/pen-test distribution, announces a new release which is also UEFI compatible. Here are my experiences installing it. …read more Source:: Linux
Google confirms new Linux hole not a big deal for Android
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•Sometimes a security “hole” is really a tiny security “leak.” …read more Source:: Linux
First materials woven at atomic and molecular levels: Weaving a new story for COFS and MOFs
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•Scientists have woven the first 3-D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads. The woven COFs display significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs. …read more Source:: Science
iOS 9.3’s best feature (and how to get it on Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux)
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•iOS 9.3 is currently in public beta, and there’s one feature that I think is, without a doubt, the best feature to come to iOS for a while. I’m talking …read more Source:: Linux
Nano-weaving: Synthesis of threaded polymers begins
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•For the first time, scientists have been able to weave a material at molecular level. …read more Source:: Science
Dark ‘noodles’ may lurk in the Milky Way
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•Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our Galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Astronomers say the …read more Source:: Science
Sexuality, not extra chromosomes, benefits animal, biologists find
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•Why do animals engage in sexual reproduction? Biologists sought answers with mud snails that breed both sexually and asexually. They found that asexual snails grow faster and reach reproductive age …read more Source:: Science