Microsoft is making good on its promise from a year ago to make more Linux distributions available from the Microsoft Store for use on Windows 10’s subsystem for Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Day: March 6, 2018
Current deforestation pace will intensify global warming, study alerts
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•Scientists affirms the prolongation of an annual deforestation of 7,000 square km can nullify the efforts for reducing GHG emissions. The study brings a new assessment on the importance of …read more Source:: Science
Broad spectrum antiviral drug inhibits a range of emerging coronaviruses
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•Researchers have long known that RNA viruses called coronaviruses cause the common cold and pneumonia. In the last two decades or so, though, researchers have found that these viruses can …read more Source:: Science
Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping the young star HR 4796A
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•Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists engineer crops to conserve water, resist drought
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•For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent, without compromising yield, by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all …read more Source:: Science