Almost all solid materials, from rubber and glass to granite and steel, inevitably expand when heated. Only in very rare instances do certain materials buck this thermodynamic trend and shrink …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 25, 2016
IDG Contributor Network: How bad is the Dirty Cow Linux kernel vulnerability?
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•By Jim Lynch How bad is the Dirty Cow vulnerability? The Dirty Cow Linux kernel vulnerability is getting lots of coverage in the media. But how bad is it really? A writer at Linux.com …read more Source:: OpenSource
3-D-printed magnets: How can you produce a magnet with exactly the right magnetic field?
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•How can you produce a magnet with exactly the right magnetic field? A research team now has a solution: for the first time, they have created magnets with a 3D …read more Source:: Science
Uranus may have two undiscovered moons
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•NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then. A new study led by University of Idaho …read more Source:: Science
Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented
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•Two new studies have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of …read more Source:: Science