Astronomers using observations from NASA’s WISE and Fermi missions have confirmed a connection between the infrared and gamma-ray light emitted by blazars, a class of distant galaxies powered by monster …read more Source:: Science
Month: August 2016
Scientists use ultrasound to jump-start a man’s brain after coma
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•A 25-year-old man recovering from a coma has made remarkable progress following a treatment to jump-start his brain using ultrasounds, scientists report. This is the first time such an approach …read more Source:: Science
Breast cancer cells found to switch molecular characteristics
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•A new study reveals how spontaneous changes in the molecular characteristics of tumors can lead to tumors with a mixed population of cells requiring treatment with several types of therapeutic …read more Source:: Science
Humans have caused climate change for 180 years
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•An international research project has found human activity has been causing global warming for almost two centuries, proving human-induced climate change is not just a 20th century phenomenon. …read more Source:: Science
Open source 25-core chip can be stringed into a 200,000-core computer
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•By Agam Shah Researchers want to give a 25-core open-source processor called Piton some serious bite. The developers of the chip at Princeton University have in mind a 200,000-core computer crammed with 8,000 64-bit …read more Source:: OpenSource
The marriage of Microsoft and Linux
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•Wim Coekaerts, corporate VP of Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Group, came to LinuxCon preaching enable, integrate, release, and contribute instead of embrace, extend, and extinguish. …read more Source:: Linux
Google readies next-gen RPC protocol to replace JSON
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•By Serdar Yegulalp With the 1.0 release of its gRPC protocol, Google aims to provide a next-generation standard for server-to-server communications in an age of cloud microservices. Originally unveiled early last …read more Source:: OpenSource
New insights into the relationship between erosion and tectonics in the Himalayas
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•Earth’s climate interacts with so called surface processes — such as landslides or river erosion — and tectonics to shape the landscape that we see. In some regions, the sheer …read more Source:: Science
Another day, another 4,600 lines of Linux kernel code
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•By Katherine Noyes The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That’s according to a new report published Monday …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux rules the world. Where to next?
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•On the back of some significant improvements in the last year and a half, Linux is now the model for software development. …read more Source:: Linux