Scientists have started to crack the 50-year-old puzzle of how temperature turns baby turtles male or female. Researchers show that cooler egg incubation temperatures turn up a key gene called …read more Source:: Science
Month: May 2018
What’s new in Microsoft .Net Core
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•By Paul Krill Microsoft’s .Net Core, a cross-platform implementation of the company’s .Net development platform, is being readied for its 2.1 release, featuring improvements to build time performance and tools deployment. To …read more Source:: OpenSource
Heat and sound wave interactions in solids could run engines, refrigerators
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•A solid can serve as a medium for heat and sound wave interactions just like a fluid does for thermoacoustic engines and refrigerators — resulting in leak-free machines that can …read more Source:: Science
Video of moving discs reconstructed from rat retinal neuron signals
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•Using machine-learning techniques, a research team has reconstructed a short movie of small, randomly moving discs from signals produced by rat retinal neurons. …read more Source:: Science
Ancient skull shows early ‘baleen whale’ had teeth
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•Today’s baleen whales (Mysticetes) support their massive bodies by filtering huge volumes of small prey from seawater using comb-like baleen in their mouths. But new evidence based on careful analysis …read more Source:: Science
Neuroscientists find first evidence animals can mentally replay past events
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•Researchers have reported the first evidence that non-human animals can mentally replay past events from memory. The discovery could help improve the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease by …read more Source:: Science
Big fish produce disproportionately more and bigger eggs
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•Contrary to prevailing dogma, plus-sized female fish invest disproportionately more in making eggs than smaller females. Therefore, taking a single big fish has a bigger impact on the fish population …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat introduces Kubernetes Operators software development toolkit
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•Kubernetes Operators will help ISVs deliver Red Hat OpenShift-tested and validated cloud-native applications and services across hybrid and multi-cloud footprints. …read more Source:: Linux
Atmospheric seasons could signal alien life
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•To complement traditional biosignatures, scientists are developing the first quantitative framework for dynamic biosignatures based on seasonal changes in the Earth’s atmosphere. …read more Source:: Science
New magnetic process in turbulent space
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•Explorations in Earth’s space environment by NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft have discovered a surprising new magnetic event in turbulent plasma. …read more Source:: Science