The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural …read more Source:: Science
Day: November 16, 2016
OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES
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WEEKLY NEWS 5 dashboard tools for monitoring critical data Communicate complex data quickly with these open source tools. Open source is not free software Conflating the two terms might undermine free software as a whole. How to share a mouse and keyboard across multiple computers Learn about Synergy, a software alternative to a physical KVM…
OPEN SOURCE EVENTS
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WEEKLY NEWS How to run commands at shutdown on Linux Linux systems have long made it pretty easy to run a command on boot, but running a command on shutdown is a little more complicated. Which ‘ancient’ programming language do you use the most? Weigh in on our latest poll and discussion. An introduction to…
Opensource.com
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We’ve rounded up a collection of articles from Opensource.com community moderator Seth Kenlon highlighting the many great uses of Git, a version control tool and distributed revision control system. OUR PICKS What is Git? See how Git can help you keep your files organized as they change over time. Getting started with Git Learn the…
Tooth wear patterns suggest Paranthropus early hominins had softer diets than expected
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Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study. …read more Source:: Science
Ultra-long acting pill offers new hope in eliminating malaria
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Imagine swallowing a pill today that continues releasing the daily dose of a medicine you need for the next week, month or even longer. Investigators have developed a long-acting drug …read more Source:: Science
New gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals
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Researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing — the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the non-dividing cells that make up …read more Source:: Science
New hydrogel can take organoids from dish to clinic
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Scientists have developed a gel for growing miniaturized body organs that can be used in clinical diagnostics and drug development. Organoids are miniature organs that can be grown in the …read more Source:: Science
Words and bones tell a similar story about deep history
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Common descent of human populations is reflected both in their cranial features and their linguistic affiliations over vast geographic distances, new evidence suggests. The formation of different languages and language …read more Source:: Science
Review: Spark lights up machine learning
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By Martin Heller As I wrote in March of this year, the Databricks service is an excellent product for data scientists. It has a full assortment of ingestion, feature selection, model building, …read more Source:: OpenSource