Chemists have demonstrated the ability to selectively functionalize the unreactive carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds of an alkane without using a directing group, while also maintaining virtually full control of site selectivity …read more Source:: Science
Day: May 11, 2016
Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere
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•Using the oldest fossil micrometeorites — space dust — ever found, new research has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Fedora 24 beta focuses on containers and the cloud
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The latest edition of Red Hat’s bleeding-edge Linux distribution, Fedora 24, is now available in beta, with the majority of the changes addressing how cloud applications are hosted …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brain imaging links Alzheimer’s decline to tau protein
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•Using a new imaging agent that binds to tau protein and makes it visible in positron emission tomography (PET) scans, scientists have shown that measures of tau are better markers …read more Source:: Science
A quasiparticle collider
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•Experiments prove that basic collider concepts from particle physics can be transferred to solid-state research. …read more Source:: Science
Highway noise deters communication between birds
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•Northern cardinals and tufted titmice are two abundant bird species in the woods of eastern North America. Many bird and mammal species rely on information from tufted titmice calls to …read more Source:: Science
Tent camping could lead to flame retardant exposure
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•For campers, nothing beats sleeping in a tent in the great outdoors. But scientists are finding out the air inside tents might not be as fresh as people think. A …read more Source:: Science
What mountain gorillas reveal with their teeth
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•Mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda eat up to 30 kilos of plants a day and their diet is highly varied in a habitat that is becoming increasingly …read more Source:: Science
New test by deepest galaxy map finds Einstein’s theory stands true
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•Astronomers have made a 3D map of 3000 galaxies 13 billion light years from Earth, and found that Einstein’s general theory of relativity is still valid. …read more Source:: Science
Redis plants the seeds for an open source ecosystem
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•By Serdar Yegulalp In-memory database and caching solution Redis, used to boost everything from Spark to Amazon Web Services, adds a new, long-promised feature called Redis Modules. Announced at RedisConf …read more Source:: OpenSource