Thunderstorms directly above two of the world’s busiest shipping lanes are significantly more powerful than storms in areas of the ocean where ships don’t travel, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
Month: September 2017
Human skin cells transformed directly into motor neurons
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•Scientists have converted skin cells from healthy adults directly into motor neurons without going through a stem cell state. The technique makes it possible to study motor neurons of the …read more Source:: Science
Mesosphere taps Kubernetes for container orchestration
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mesosphere’s datacenter management platform, DC/OS, has added Kubernetes as an officially supported option for container orchestration. DC/OS, built atop the Apache Mesos cluster-management project, has long offered …read more Source:: OpenSource
Direct evidence of sea level ‘fingerprints’ discovered
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•The first observation of sea level ‘fingerprints’ — tell-tale differences in sea level rise around the world in response to changes in continental water and ice sheet mass — has …read more Source:: Science
Pluto features given first official names
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•The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has officially approved the naming of 14 features on the surface of Pluto. These are the first geological …read more Source:: Science
Nutrition has benefits for brain network organization
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•Nutrition has been linked to cognitive performance, but researchers have not pinpointed what underlies the connection. A new study found that monounsaturated fatty acids — a class of nutrients found …read more Source:: Science
Nginx forges multilanguage app server for microservices
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•By Paul Krill Nginx has introduced an application server for microservices environments. The open source Nginx Unit is designed for environments where developers use multiple languages in their deployments. It’s typical in …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft’s Azure App Service developer platform now available on Linux
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•Microsoft’s Azure App Service for building and hosting cloud apps for the web and mobile clients, is generally available on Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
The road to Java 9: Twice-yearly releases are coming
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•By Paul Krill Oracle will speed up the releases of standard Java, with a new release Java Development Kit (JDK) coming every six months and a long-term support version that gets updated every …read more Source:: OpenSource
Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch
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•The discovery of the largest timing irregularity yet observed in a pulsar is the first confirmation that pulsars in binary systems exhibit the strange phenomenon known as a ‘glitch.’ …read more Source:: Science