The open-source drone software group Dronecode has forked, with some developers leaving for their own project. …read more Source:: Linux
Day: September 15, 2016
‘Thermal metamaterial’ innovation could help bring waste-heat harvesting technology to power plants, factories
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•Researchers have used a ‘thermal metamaterial’ to control the emission of radiation at high temperatures, an advance that could bring devices able to efficiently harvest waste heat from power plants …read more Source:: Science
For first time, individual atoms seen keeping away from each other or bunching up as pairs
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•If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today’s most powerful microscopes, you will see little more than a shadowy blur. Atoms zip around at …read more Source:: Science
Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments
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•Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but with human-generated noise on the rise, scientists are examining how bats and other animals might …read more Source:: Science
First U.S. marine national monument created in Atlantic
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•Deep in the oceans exist some of the world’s oldest and most mysterious sea canyons and mountains, or seamounts. Formed millions of years ago by extinct volcanoes and sediment erosion, …read more Source:: Science
Four basic personality types identified: Pessimistic; optimistic; envious and trusting
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•A study on human behavior has revealed that 90% of the population can be classified into four basic personality types: Optimistic, Pessimistic, Trusting and Envious. However, the latter of the …read more Source:: Science
For 20 million years, the diversity of large terrestrial mammals depended on plant growth
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•For more than 20 million years, the ups and downs of diversity in terrestrial large mammals were determined by primary production, i.e. net production of plant biomass. This pattern changed …read more Source:: Science
GitHub launches built-in project management boards for its code repos
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•By Blair Hanley Frank GitHub, the popular site for managing software development projects, is now also a lightweight project management service, thanks to a new feature. The company launched Projects on Wednesday, which …read more Source:: OpenSource