New research finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years ago. These findings add insight into the geological evolution of Mercury in …read more Source:: Science
Day: August 5, 2016
Microcephaly discoveries made in non-Zika cases help explain abnormal brain growth
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•Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors — even as it changed the lives of the babies born with …read more Source:: Science
Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form
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•New research suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both. …read more Source:: Science
Veins on Mars were formed by evaporating ancient lakes
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•Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown. …read more Source:: Science
Do black holes have a back door?
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•One of the biggest problems when studying black holes is that the laws of physics as we know them cease to apply in their deepest regions. Large quantities of matter …read more Source:: Science
Intel’s cloud project looks a lot like OpenStack
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•By Serdar Yegulalp A fledgling open source project at Intel is wiping the slate clean in managing workloads in VMs, in containers, and on bare metal alike. The CIAO Project — “CIAO” …read more Source:: OpenSource