About 80 percent of patients with moderate to severe psoriasis saw their disease completely or almost completely cleared with a new drug called ixekizumab, according to three large, long-term clinical …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 9, 2016
Why Microsoft is turning into an open-source company
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•Microsoft now has its own BSD Unix operating system, supports Ubuntu as a subsystem on Windows 10, and recently open-sourced the Xamarin software development kit. This is not Bill Gates …read more Source:: Linux
Perovskite solar cells surpass 20 percent efficiency
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•Researchers are pushing the limits of perovskite solar cell performance by exploring the best way to grow these crystals. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists unpack how Toxoplasma infection is linked to neurodegenerative disease
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•Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite, infects a third of the world’s population. Working on mice, biomedical scientists report that Toxoplasma infection leads to a disruption of neurotransmitters in the brain …read more Source:: Science
Super quantum simulator ‘entangles’ hundreds of ions
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•Physicists have ‘entangled’ or linked together the properties of up to 219 beryllium ions (charged atoms) to create a quantum simulator. The simulator is designed to model and mimic complex …read more Source:: Science
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Docker partner for the containerized data-center
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•HPE is putting all its container eggs into the Docker basket. …read more Source:: Linux
Hands-on with Ubiquity and Calamares: Two Linux installers side-by-side
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•A screen-shot walk-through of the latest Calamares (Manjaro 16.06) and Ubiquity (Linux Mint 18 Beta) installers. …read more Source:: Linux
Greenland’s 2015 melt records consistent with ‘Arctic amplification’
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•Following record-high temperatures and melting records that affected northwest Greenland in summer 2015, a new study provides the first evidence linking melting in Greenland to the anticipated effects of a …read more Source:: Science
Ancient ants leaving a modern trail
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•It is thought that ants evolved about 150 million years ago and have risen to dominance in the past 60 million years. They are now everywhere and while they are …read more Source:: Science