Scientists have found a way to produce realistic sensations of touch in two human amputees by directly stimulating the nervous system. …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2016
After blindness, the adult brain can learn to see again
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•More than 40 million people worldwide are blind, and many of them reach this condition after many years of slow and progressive retinal degeneration. The development of sophisticated prostheses or …read more Source:: Science
Cosmic horseshoe is not the lucky beacon
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•Although the universe started out with a bang it quickly evolved to a relatively cool, dark place. After a few hundred thousand years the lights came back on and scientists …read more Source:: Science
3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
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•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
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
GitHub open-sources tool to track and preview Puppet changes
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Puppet, the configuration management and automation tool for datacenters, forms a major portion of the infrastructure supporting code-hosting service GitHub. GitHub has now open-sourced one of its key Puppet tools, a …read more Source:: OpenSource
How lying takes our brains down a ‘slippery slope’
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•Telling small lies desensitizes our brains to the associated negative emotions and may encourage us to tell bigger lies in future, reveals new research. …read more Source:: Science