Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres where ice deposits could exist now. …read more Source:: Science
Day: July 8, 2016
Study explains why galaxies stop creating stars
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•Using a large sample of around 70,000 galaxies, a team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside astronomers may have an answer to an outstanding problem in the study …read more Source:: Science
Tiny bacteria-powered ‘windfarm’ for your phone?
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•A team of scientists has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic ‘windfarms’ — or other human-made micromachines such as smartphone components. …read more Source:: Science
Visual Studio Code 1.3 is Microsoft’s new dev playground
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Visual Studio Code 1.3 not only adds a passel of feature improvements and bug fixes, it shows Microsoft using a clean product slate to experiment. Microsoft is free …read more Source:: OpenSource
Messaging by flow in the brain
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•Researchers visualize cilia-based networks in the brain, which could transport vital messenger substances. …read more Source:: Science
How plants sense electric fields
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•An international group of researchers has pinpointed the sensor plants use to sense electric fields. A beneficial side effect: their work could contribute to the understanding of how the Ebola …read more Source:: Science
Increase in childhood, adult asthma linked to London’s 1952 Great Smog
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•London’s Great Smog of 1952 resulted in thousands of premature deaths and even more people becoming ill. The five December days the smog lasted may have also resulted in thousands …read more Source:: Science