Researchers who’ve analyzed ancient mitochondrial (mt)DNA isolated from a 22,000-year-old panda found in Cizhutuo Cave in the Guangxi Province of China — a place where no pandas live today — …read more Source:: Science
Month: June 2018
Faster, cheaper, better: A new way to synthesize DNA
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•Researchers have pioneered a new way to synthesize DNA sequences through a creative use of enzymes that promises to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate. DNA synthesis is a fundamental …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat changes its open-source licensing rules
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•Red Hat-initiated open-source projects, which use GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1, will be expected to add GPLv3’s cure commitment language to their licenses. …read more Source:: Linux
Database shift: Start with open source but finish with AWS
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•By Matt Asay The cloud was supposed to kill open source. Instead, savvy cloud operators appear to be using open source as an on-ramp to proprietary services, giving them reason to increase …read more Source:: OpenSource
Leading Antarctic experts offer two possible views of continent’s future
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•The next 10 years will be critical for the future of Antarctica, and choices made will have long-lasting consequences, says an international group of Antarctic research scientists. It lays out …read more Source:: Science
Flying spiders sense meteorological conditions, use nanoscale fibers to float on the wind
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•Spiders take flight on the smallest of breezes by first sensing the wind, and then spinning out dozens of nanoscale fibers up to seven meters long, according to a new …read more Source:: Science
This is what a stretchy circuit looks like
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•Researchers have made a new hybrid conductive material — part elastic polymer, part liquid metal — that can be bent and stretched at will. Circuits made with this material can …read more Source:: Science
Foods combining fats and carbohydrates more rewarding than foods with just fats or carbs
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•Researchers show that the reward center of the brain values foods high in both fat and carbohydrates — i.e., many processed foods — more than foods containing only fat or …read more Source:: Science
Ocean waves following sea ice loss trigger Antarctic ice shelf collapse
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•Storm-driven ocean swells have triggered the catastrophic disintegration of Antarctic ice shelves in recent decades, according to new research published in Nature today. …read more Source:: Science
Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
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•99-million-year-old amber fossils from Myanmar provide the earliest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests. …read more Source:: Science