By Jim Lynch Is Linux a security risk in Windows 10? The inclusion of Linux in Windows 10 has certainly gotten lots of attention in the media, but now some sites are speculating that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: August 2016
How the Vikings started the worldwide distribution of gaited horses
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•Some horses have special gaits, which are more comfortable for the rider than walk, trot or gallop. Now, a study by an international research team has revealed that these gaited …read more Source:: Science
Archaeology team makes world-first tool discovery
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•How smart were human-like species of the Stone Age? New research reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in a former oasis near Azraq, Jordan. …read more Source:: Science
Most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped about 3.5 billion years ago
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•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
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
Scientists convert carbon dioxide, create electricity
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•Scientists have developed an oxygen-assisted aluminum/carbon dioxide power cell that uses electrochemical reactions to both sequester the carbon dioxide and produce electricity. …read more Source:: Science