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
Month: October 2016
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
Bioluminescent sensor causes brain cells to glow in the dark
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•A new kind of bioluminescent sensor causes individual brain cells to imitate fireflies and glow in the dark. The probe is a genetically modified form of luciferase, the enzyme that …read more Source:: Science
Male birth control shots prevent pregnancy
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•Men can take birth control shots to prevent pregnancy in their female partners, according to a new study. Researchers are still working to perfect the combination of hormonal contraceptives to …read more Source:: Science
Genome sequencing reveals ancient interbreeding between chimpanzees and bonobos
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•For the first time, scientists have revealed ancient gene mixing between chimpanzees and bonobos, humankind’s closest relatives, showing parallels with Neanderthal mixing in human ancestry. The study showed that one …read more Source:: Science
NASA moon mission shares insights into giant impacts
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•New results from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth’s moon and other solid worlds, …read more Source:: Science
Dart’s not dead! Google retools JavaScript challenger
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Google’s Dart language hasn’t become the JavaScript-killer it was intended to be. That said, Google still uses it a great deal internally for web-app related projects, such as AdSense. Now, Google …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cython speedups borrow from Python playbook
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What’s faster than Python? C. What’s also far less convenient than Python? C. But for people who want the convenience of Python and the speed of C, the Cython …read more Source:: OpenSource
Forrester: OpenStack, AWS are today’s cloud ‘safe bets’
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Forrester Research’s newly issued report, “The State Of Cloud Platform Standard, Q4 2016,” regards OpenStack and AWS as the de facto standards for compute and storage in the cloud. That by …read more Source:: OpenSource
Upper Paleolithic humans may have hunted cave lions for their pelts
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•Upper Paleolithic humans may have hunted cave lions for their pelts, perhaps contributing to their extinction, according to a new study. …read more Source:: Science