The evolution of a new species can occur rapidly enough for them to observe the process in a simple laboratory flask, biologists have discovered. In a month-long experiment using a …read more Source:: Science
Day: November 29, 2016
Ants communicate by mouth-to-mouth fluid exchange
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•Liquids shared mouth-to-mouth by social insects contain proteins and small molecules that can influence the development and organization of their colonies, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
Ancient rocks hold evidence for life before oxygen
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•Somewhere between Earth’s creation and where we are today, scientists have demonstrated that some early life forms existed just fine without any oxygen. The 2.52 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are exceptionally …read more Source:: Science
C++ compiler guns for speed records
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•By Serdar Yegulalp C++ remains the go-to language for the highest-end, hardest-core, and most pedal-to-the-metal applications. But compiling a large C++ project means dealing with agonizing wait times. Israeli software outfit Ceemple Software …read more Source:: OpenSource
Glowing crystals can detect, cleanse contaminated drinking water
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•Motivated by public hazards associated with contaminated sources of drinking water, a team of scientists has successfully developed and tested tiny, glowing crystals that can detect and trap heavy-metal toxins …read more Source:: Science
Researchers create first ‘water-wave laser’
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•Researchers have demonstrated that laser emissions can be created through the interaction of light and water waves. This ‘water-wave laser’ could someday be used in tiny sensors or ‘lab-on-a-chip’ devices …read more Source:: Science
IDG Contributor Network: Android: 10 best first person shooter games
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•By Jim Lynch 10 best first person shooter games for Android First person shooters are a perennial favorite among gamers, including those who play on their Android devices. But it can be tough to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Gut microbes contribute to recurrent ‘yo-yo’ obesity
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•Researchers have shown in mice that intestinal microbes — collectively termed the gut microbiome — play an unexpectedly important role in exacerbated post-dieting weight gain, and that this common phenomenon …read more Source:: Science
Life and death following Great Barrier Reef bleaching
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•Scientists have confirmed the largest die-off of corals ever recorded on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The worst affected area, a 700 km swath of reefs in the northern region of …read more Source:: Science
Azure customer saves Microsoft from an RHEL disaster
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Broken authentication, improperly secured configuration files, and poor certificate management: Attackers could have exploited these issues to compromise any RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) instance on Microsoft Azure. Ian …read more Source:: OpenSource