Crucial new evidence has revealed modern humans (Homo sapiens) were likely using fire at Liang Bua 41,000 years ago, narrowing the time gap between the last hobbits (Homo floresiensis) and …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 29, 2016
Current stimulation of the brain restores vision in patients with glaucoma and optic nerve damage
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•Vision loss due to glaucoma or optic nerve damage is generally considered irreversible. Now a new prospective, randomized, multi-center clinical trial demonstrates significant vision improvement in partially blind patients after …read more Source:: Science
Little to no association between butter consumption, chronic disease or total mortality
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•An epidemiological study analyzing the association of butter consumption with chronic disease and mortality finds that butter was only weakly associated with total mortality, not associated with heart disease, and …read more Source:: Science
Climate study finds human fingerprint in Northern Hemisphere greening
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•The first positive correlation between human activity and enhanced vegetation growth has been uncovered by a team of researchers. …read more Source:: Science
Mountaineering ants use body heat to warm nests
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•Underground army ants can keep their nests — called bivouacs — warm with their body heat; this social warming may enable fragile offspring to survive in chilly mountain forests, according …read more Source:: Science
Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer’s proteins from brain cells
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•Scientists have found preliminary evidence that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other compounds found in marijuana can promote the cellular removal of amyloid beta, a toxic protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease. …read more Source:: Science
Hands on with KaOS Linux: Not just another derivative distro
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•KaOS is a clean, lean, KDE-focused Linux distribution. If you haven’t tried it, this would be a good time. If you already have KaOS running, just make sure …read more Source:: Linux
Red Hat builds Linux container security scanning into RHEL
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Red Hat is retooling its enterprise product line around containers, and it’s introduced container security components as part of that effort. This week, Red Hat showed off two methods for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Whitehurst: Free OSS Red Hat’s biggest competition in Asia
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•Red Hat still faces a major challenge convincing organisations to pay for its services, especially in markets such as China where there is widespread use of free, open source alternatives, …read more Source:: Linux
Baby fish lose poisonous protectors in acidified oceans
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•A common close partnership which sees baby fish sheltering from predators among the poisonous tentacles of jellyfish will be harmed under predicted ocean acidification, a new study has found. …read more Source:: Science