A new tool predicts the risk of Zika virus importation and local transmission for 189 countries. …read more Source:: Science
Month: May 2016
Remains of bizarre group of extinct snail-eating Australian marsupials discovered
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•Fossil remains of a previously unknown family of carnivorous Australian marsupials that lived 15 million years ago have been discovered at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site in north-western Queensland. …read more Source:: Science
Hands-on with Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3
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•A popular Linux distribution on a popular and inexpensive computer. Here are my experiences with it so far – mostly good, but not all. …read more Source:: Linux
How the brain makes, and breaks, a habit
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•Not all habits are bad. Some are even necessary. But inability to switch from acting habitually to acting in a deliberate way can underlie addiction and obsessive compulsive disorders. Working …read more Source:: Science
Evidence of ice age at Martian north pole
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•Using radar data scientists found evidence of an ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars. Ice ages on Mars are driven by processes similar to those responsible for …read more Source:: Science
Twitter open-sources Heron for real-time stream analytics
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Heron, the real-time stream-processing system Twitter devised as a replacement for Apache Storm, is finally being open-sourced after powering Twitter for more than two years. Twitter explained in a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Astronomers find giant planet around very young star
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•In contradiction to the long-standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, astronomers have announced the discovery of a giant planet in close orbit around a star so young …read more Source:: Science
Why malnutrition is an immune disorder
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•Malnourished children are most likely to die from common infections, not starvation. New experimental evidence indicates that even with a healthy diet, defects in immune system function from birth could …read more Source:: Science
The universe as a hologram? Black holes as 2-D ‘objects’ that only appear 3-D?
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•Black holes are still very mysterious celestial bodies which, according to the majority of physicists, do not, however, escape the laws of thermodynamics. As a result, these physical systems possess …read more Source:: Science
Small offshore oil spills put seabirds at risk
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•Seabirds exposed to even a dime-sized amount of oil can die of hypothermia in cold-water regions, but despite repeated requests by Environment Canada, offshore oil operators are failing when it …read more Source:: Science