Scientists working with laboratory mice have shown that it’s possible to favor the engraftment of one gut bacterial strain over others by manipulating the mice’s diet. The researchers also have …read more Source:: Science
Month: May 2018
The Big Bell Test: Global physics experiment challenges Einstein
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•Simultaneous experiments on five continents challenge Einstein’s principle of local realism. Participants contributed to the experiment generating more than 90 million bits, unpredictably choosing among measurements to escape a paradox …read more Source:: Science
Linux comes to Chromebooks
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•Chrome OS is based on Linux, but you can’t easily run Linux applications on it. That’s about to change, with Google’s Project Crostini rolling out. …read more Source:: Linux
Red Hat and Microsoft bring OpenShift to Azure
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•Microsoft and Red Hat expand their partnership around hybrid cloud, Kubernetes container management, and developer productivity. …read more Source:: Linux
What’s new in Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution for Linux has earned a reputation for being user-friendly, with editions aimed at desktop, server, cloud, and IoT users. This changelog tracks updates to Ubuntu across its …read more Source:: OpenSource
Taking CRISPR from clipping scissors to word processor
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•Researchers have developed a new platform that makes CRISPR less like a cutting tool and more like a word processor with a search-and-replace function. …read more Source:: Science
Prolonged exposure to air pollution leads to genetic changes in rat brains, study finds
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•Prolonged exposure to particulate matter in air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin triggered inflammation and the appearance of cancer-related genes in the brains of rats, a new study has …read more Source:: Science
IDG Contributor Network: Like herding cats: managing test automation tools in an open-source world
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•By Ryan Yackel In the world of testing and devops, it’s easy to take on a Dickensian view: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the …read more Source:: OpenSource
‘Snowball Earth’ resulted from plate tectonics
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•About 700 million years ago, the Earth experienced unusual episodes of global cooling that geologists refer to as ‘Snowball Earth.’ Geologists now suggest that those major climate changes can be …read more Source:: Science
25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot aquatic predator
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•More than two decades of exploration at a Pennsylvania fossil site have given paleontologists their best idea of how a giant, prehistoric predator would have looked and behaved. …read more Source:: Science