Researchers were able to mutate Viral Protein 40 (VP40) in a way that changed the residues of the protein, blocking the budding and replication of Ebola virus in a model …read more Source:: Science
Month: March 2018
Elephant declines imperil Africa’s forests
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Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001. This poses consequences not only for elephants but also for the region’s forests, …read more Source:: Science
Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home
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Astronomers have put NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient ‘relic galaxy’ in our own cosmic backyard. …read more Source:: Science
Modern humans flourished through ancient supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago
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Early modern humans living in South Africa around 74,000 years ago prospered through the cataclysmic eruption of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra. The Toba eruption was one of the Earth’s …read more Source:: Science
On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories, study finds
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A new study has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does — and by a substantial margin. Moreover, the spread of …read more Source:: Science
Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle
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Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist as far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’s mantle. …read more Source:: Science
What’s new in LLVM
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By Serdar Yegulalp The LLVM compiler framework has gone from being a technological curiosity to a vital piece of the modern software landscape. It is the engine behind the Clang compiler, as …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux beats legal threat from one of its own developers
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Linux has beaten many legal challenges over the years, but until now, it hasn’t had to win a battle over one of its own. …read more Source:: Linux
The ‘architecture of life’ described by computer modeling
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While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and …read more Source:: Science
Is your stress changing my brain?
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Scientists have discovered that stress transmitted from others can change the brain in the same way as a real stress does. …read more Source:: Science