While the full moon cannot turn people into werewolves, some people do accuse it of causing a bad night’s sleep or creating physical and mental alterations. But is there any …read more Source:: Science
Month: May 2016
Continental drift created biologically diverse coral reefs
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•An international research team has studied the geographical pattern of the evolution of corals and reef fish. Their findings show that today’s geographical distribution of tropical marine diversity is the …read more Source:: Science
Open-source really could help get you a job, study finds
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•By Jon Gold Experience in the open-source world is a valuable asset for technology job-seekers, and it’s getting more so over time, according to the latest Open-Source Jobs Report, which was <a class="colorbox" href="http://go.linuxfoundation.org/download-2016-open-source-jobs-report" …read more Source:: OpenSource
NativeScript warms up to AngularJS for mobile dev
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•By Paul Krill NativeScript, Telerik’s open source platform for building native cross-platform mobile applications, has moved to a 2.0 release this week, highlighted by integration with the planned AngularJS 2 Web development framework. <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource
HBase: The database big data left behind
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•By Matt Asay A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in big data. The primary pairing for Hadoop, HBase saw adoption skyrocket, but it has since …read more Source:: OpenSource
Why vultures matter, and what we lose if they’re gone
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•The primary threat to vultures is the presence of toxins in the carrion they consume. Losses of vultures can allow other scavengers to flourish, and proliferation of such scavengers could …read more Source:: Science
T cells use ‘handshakes’ to sort friends from foes
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•Chemists provide the first direct evidence that a T cell gives precise mechanical tugs to other cells, and demonstrate that these tugs are central to a T cell’s process of …read more Source:: Science
Bee model could be breakthrough for robot development
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•Scientists at the University of Sheffield have created a computer model of how bees avoid hitting walls — which could be a breakthrough in the development of autonomous robots. …read more Source:: Science
Six new fossil species form ‘snapshot’ of primates stressed by ancient climate change
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•Researchers have unearthed a “mother lode” of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China.These primates eked out an existence just after the Eocene-Oligocene transition, when drastic cooling slashed their …read more Source:: Science
Tsunami risk: World’s shallowest slow-motion earthquakes detected offshore of New Zealand
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•New research indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or ‘slow-slip events’ can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that also moves in large, tsunami-generating earthquakes. The finding has important implications for …read more Source:: Science