Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have greater numbers of harmful mutations in their mitochondrial DNA than family members, researchers report. …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 28, 2016
NASA missions harvest a passel of ‘pumpkin’ stars
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•Astronomers have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the sun. The stars, which spin so …read more Source:: Science
Underfed worms program their babies to cope with famine
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•Going hungry at an early age can cause lifelong health problems. But the extent of malnutrition’s damage depends on mom’s diet too — at least in worms. A new study …read more Source:: Science
Early Pacific seafarers likely latched onto El Nino, other climate patterns
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•Researchers employed computer simulations and climatic data to help them explore the travels that led to the settlement of islands in Remote Oceania. …read more Source:: Science
New surfaces repel water in oil as well as oil in water
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•New surface materials that are extremely difficult to wet both by water and oil have now been developed by scientists. Because they don’t need isolating air to stay trapped between …read more Source:: Science
Spark picks up machine learning, GPU acceleration
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that …read more Source:: OpenSource