As the world seeks to curb human-induced climate change, will protecting the carbon of tropical forests also ensure the survival of their species? A study suggests the answer to this …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2018
Electronic stickers to streamline large-scale ‘internet of things’
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•Researchers have developed a new fabrication method that makes tiny, thin-film electronic circuits peelable from a surface. The technique not only eliminates several manufacturing steps and the associated costs, but …read more Source:: Science
IBM’s new Nabla containers are designed for security first
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•IBM claims its new container design is more secure than Docker or other containers by cutting operating system calls to the bare minimum and thereby reducing its attack surface as …read more Source:: Linux
Single-celled architects inspire new nanotechnology
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•Scientists have designed a range of nanostructures resembling marine diatoms — tiny unicellular creatures. To achieve this, they borrow techniques used by naturally-occurring diatoms to deposit layers of silica — …read more Source:: Science
Magnetized wire could be used to detect cancer in people
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•A magnetic wire used to snag scarce and hard-to-capture tumor cells could prove to be a swift and effective tactic for early cancer detection, according to a new study. …read more Source:: Science
Containers or virtual machines: Which is more secure? The answer will surprise you
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•IBM Research has created a new way to measure software security, Horizontal Attack Profile, and it’s found a properly secured container can be almost as secure as a virtual machine. …read more Source:: Linux
84 highly endangered amur leopards remain in China and Russia
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•Scientists estimate there are only 84 remaining highly endangered Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) remaining in the wild across its current range along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province in …read more Source:: Science
Sunk cost fallacy in mice, rats and humans
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•New research has shown that mice, rats, and humans all commit the sunk cost fallacy. …read more Source:: Science
How might dark matter interact with ordinary matter?
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•Scientists have imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter. In the search for direct detection of dark matter, the experimental focus has been on WIMPs, or …read more Source:: Science
New species may arise from rapid mitochondrial evolution
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•Genetic research at has shed new light on how isolated populations of the same species evolve toward reproductive incompatibility and thus become separate species. …read more Source:: Science