Protecting your live data on the cloud is a real worry. IBM suggests, “Why not encrypt it?” …read more Source:: Linux
Month: December 2018
Origins of Pain
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•Research in mice identifies a set of neurons responsible for sustained pain and resulting pain-coping behaviors Findings point to the existence of separate neural pathways that regulate threat avoidance versus …read more Source:: Science
Biologists turn eavesdropping viruses into bacterial assassins
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•Researchers have found a bacteria-killing virus that can listen in on bacterial conversations — and then they made it attack diseases including salmonella, E. coli and cholera. …read more Source:: Science
Neanderthal genes give clues to human brain evolution
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•A distinctive feature of modern humans is our round (globular) skulls and brains. Researchers report that present-day humans who carry particular Neanderthal DNA fragments have heads that are slightly less …read more Source:: Science
Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land
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•Our understanding of when the very first animals started living on land is helped by identifying trace fossils — the tracks and trails left by ancient animals — in sedimentary …read more Source:: Science
Major China company, Alibaba, joins Open Invention Network patent protection group
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•Alibaba and Ant Financial are trying to cool things off in the Sino-US intellectual property wars by joining the pro-Linux Open Invention Network patent protection organization. …read more Source:: Linux
Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer
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•‘Where did the hot Neptunes go?’ This is the question astronomers have been asking for a long time, faced with the mysterious absence of planets the size of Neptune. Researchers …read more Source:: Science
First-ever look at complete skeleton of Thylacoleo, Australia’s extinct ‘marsupial lion’
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•Thyalacoleo carnifex, the ‘marsupial lion’ of Pleistocene Australia, was an adept hunter that got around with the help of a strong tail, according to a new study. These insights come …read more Source:: Science
Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms
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•Why did the first big, complex organisms spring to life in deep, dark oceans where food was scarce? A new study finds great depths provided a stable, life-sustaining refuge from …read more Source:: Science
The epoch of planet formation, times twenty
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•A team of astronomers has conducted ALMA’s first large-scale, high-resolution survey of protoplanetary disks, the belts of dust and gas around young stars. …read more Source:: Science