The copper used to make Ötzi’s axe blade did not come from the Alpine region as had previously been supposed, but from ore mined in southern Tuscany. Ötzi was probably …read more Source:: Science
Day: September 23, 2016
New language expands on Google’s Go
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•By Serdar Yegulalp One sure sign your language is successful is when people build other languages that transpile into it. JavaScript remains the prime example, but Google’s Go language is shaping up …read more Source:: OpenSource
Greenland rising as ice melts
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•A new study on the Greenland Ice Sheet provides valuable insight on climate change, using unique research methods to establish new estimates of ice loss for both modern and ancient …read more Source:: Science
Melatonin, biological clock keep singing fish on time
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•In the 1980s, people living on houseboats in the San Francisco Bay were puzzled by a droning hum of unknown origin that started abruptly in the late evening and stopped …read more Source:: Science
Oxygen levels were key to early animal evolution, strongest evidence now shows
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•It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, complex animals suddenly started to appear on Earth. Now, a team of researchers has …read more Source:: Science
Landmark Map Reveals the Genetic Wiring of Cellular Life
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•A new map breaks away from the old way of studying genes one at a time, showing how genes interact in groups to shed light on the genetic roots of …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat Platform-as-a-Service cloud loves containers
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•Red Hat is making it clear it’s all containers all the time in its Red Hat OpenShift cloud. …read more Source:: Linux