Scientists recently discovered the aptly named peacock jumping spiders have the color vision needed to appreciate the male’s gaudy display. Now biologists are studying whether that ability translates to the …read more Source:: Science
Day: July 31, 2018
Git might replace Mercurial for Java’s source-code management
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•By Paul Krill Developers participating in the evolution of standard Java may soon have a new source-code management system for the project, with the community set to investigate alternatives—including Git—to the current …read more Source:: OpenSource
Creating a (synthetic) song from a zebra finch’s muscle
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•Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues, and new research shows that these muscles act in concert to create sound. …read more Source:: Science
160-year-old mystery about the origin of skeletons solved
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•Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons. …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers assemble ‘light-fingerprints’ to unveil mysteries of the cosmos
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•Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using ‘light-fingerprints’ instead of skin grooves to uncover the mysteries of exoplanets. …read more Source:: Science