A colossal impact with a large asteroid early in Mars’ history may have ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2017
The ultimate Linux workstation: The Dell 5720 AIO
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•If you want to do serious Linux programming, why not spend the money to get the best available workstation? …read more Source:: Linux
Late-breaking mutations may play an important role in autism
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•Mutations that occur after conception play an important role in autism, suggests a new study of nearly 6,000 families, combining three genetic sequencing technologies. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Windows moves ahead with first Release Candidate
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•Microsoft is making available its first public near-final Release Candidate for its SQL Server 2017 database, which will run on Linux and Windows Server, both. …read more Source:: Linux
You’re not yourself when you’re sleepy
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•More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep, and growing evidence suggests it’s not only taking a toll on their physical health through heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and/or …read more Source:: Science
Stronger winds heat up West Antarctic ice melt
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•Stronger winds 6000kms away on the East Antarctic, have generated waves that circle the continent at almost 700kmh. When these waves meet the steep underwater topography of the West Antarctic …read more Source:: Science
Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
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•Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into a stressed community inhabited by …read more Source:: Science
One of the brightest galaxies ever discovered
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•Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS, a team of scientists has discovered one of the brightest galaxies known from the epoch …read more Source:: Science
Deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific
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•Scientists had long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific Ocean were inhospitable to certain species of deep-sea corals, but a marine biologist’s discovery of an odd …read more Source:: Science
First laboratory generation of astrophysical shock waves created
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•The first laboratory generation of an astrophysical shock wave has been reported by scientists. To produce the wave, scientists used a laser to create a high-energy plasma — a form …read more Source:: Science