A new twist has been given to the ‘Gaia’ theory that aims to explain why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years. …read more Source:: Science
Day: September 13, 2018
Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances
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•Botoniest reveal reveal how glutamate, an abundant neurotransmitter in animals, activates a wave of calcium when a plant is wounded — the best look yet at the communication systems within …read more Source:: Science
Novel flying robot mimics rapid insect flight
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•A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), is presented in Science. Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing …read more Source:: Science
LinkedIn open-sources a tool to run TensorFlow on Hadoop
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•By Serdar Yegulalp LinkedIn has open-sourced a project for scaling and managing deep learning jobs in TensorFlow, using the YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) job scheduling system in Hadoop. The Tony project came about …read more Source:: OpenSource