Engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting films made from a host of exotic materials other than silicon. To demonstrate their technique, the researchers fabricated flexible films made …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2018
When is a nova not a nova? When a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collide
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•Astronomers have found for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670. …read more Source:: Science
Living organisms find a critical balance
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•Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of why life exists, why it takes various shapes and sizes, and how …read more Source:: Science
Part-organic invention can be used in bendable mobile phones
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•Engineers have invented a semiconductor with organic and inorganic materials that can convert electricity into light very efficiently, and it is thin and flexible enough to help make devices such …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat Satellite integrated new, improved Ansible DevOps
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•Red Hat is adding Ansible DevOps capabilities to its Red Hat Satellite system management program. …read more Source:: Linux
6 under-the-radar JavaScript tools you should know
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•By Paul Krill The JS Foundation is the home of prominent open source JavaScript projects, most notably the popular jQuery JavaScript library. But it also has lower-profile efforts that developers might benefit …read more Source:: OpenSource
Scientists call for microbial ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect global health
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•A team of researchers is calling for the creation of a global microbiota vault to protect the long-term health of humanity. …read more Source:: Science
Teaching wild birds to sing a new tune
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•Like toddlers learning to speak, young birds learn to sing by listening to the voices of adults. Now, researchers have shown for the first time that they could teach young …read more Source:: Science
Surprising chemical complexity of Saturn’s rings changing planet’s upper atmosphere
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•A new study based on data from the final orbits last year of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the rings of Saturn — some of the most visually stupendous objects in …read more Source:: Science
Why huskies have blue eyes
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•DNA testing of more than 6,000 dogs has revealed that a duplication on canine chromosome 18 is strongly associated with blue eyes in Siberian Huskies. …read more Source:: Science