Fish that are bred to be bolder or more shy show corresponding changes to their body shape and locomotion, suggesting that personality changes affect other seemingly unrelated traits. The findings …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 3, 2016
Constructing shale gas sites
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•Extracting gas from shale rock not only causes environmental disturbances below ground, the surface infrastructure required to drill the wells can cause a variety of problems above ground, from fragmenting …read more Source:: Science
Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations
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•Researchers have developed a technique to integrate both analogue and digital computation in living cells, allowing them to form gene circuits capable of carrying out complex processing operations. …read more Source:: Science
Study shows how judgment of sensory simultaneity may develop in the brain
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•In a study using tadpoles, neuroscientists tracked how the brain develops its sense of whether two sensory inputs — for example, vision and touch — happened at the same time. …read more Source:: Science
From a heart in a backpack to a heart transplant
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•More than a year after leaving the hospital without a human heart, Stan Larkin, 25, trades his wearable total artificial heart for a real one. The surgery was a unique …read more Source:: Science
Hands-on with Manjaro Linux 16.06 RC2: An excellent distribution
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•The official Xfce and KDE releases will have a fresh set of ISO images for new installations. I have installed the latest Release Candidates for both of them, and updated …read more Source:: Linux
Q&A: Guido van Rossum on Python’s next steps
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•By Paul Krill There’s no doubt that Python, a 25-year-old open source, object-oriented dynamic language, has become a major tool for software developers in recent years. They love its programmer-friendliness, as well …read more Source:: OpenSource
Underwater ‘lost city’ found to be geological formation
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•New research reveals how an underwater ‘lost city’ has been found to be a geological formation.The ancient underwater remains of what was thought to be a long lost Greek city, …read more Source:: Science