By Simon Bisson Long a major hub of open source development, GitHub became part of Microsoft at the end of October 2018. Now helmed by one-time Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: January 2019
Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree
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•Paleontologists have discovered the first detailed fossil of a hagfish, the slimy, eel-like carrion feeders of the ocean. The 100-million-year-old fossil helps answer questions about when these ancient, jawless fish …read more Source:: Science
Greenland ice melting four times faster than in 2003
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•Greenland is melting faster than scientists previously thought — and will likely lead to faster sea level rise — thanks to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth’s atmosphere, a …read more Source:: Science
Early prediction of Alzheimer’s progression: Blood protein
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•Scientists have shown that a protein found in the blood can be used to precisely monitor disease progression of Alzheimer’s long before first clinical signs appear. This blood marker offers …read more Source:: Science
Ancient carpet shark discovered with ‘spaceship-shaped’ teeth
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•The world of the dinosaurs just got a bit more bizarre with a newly discovered species of freshwater shark whose tiny teeth resemble the alien ships from the popular 1980s …read more Source:: Science
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’
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•The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained …read more Source:: Science
Smart microrobots that can adapt to their surroundings
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•Scientists have developed tiny elastic robots that can change shape depending on their surroundings. Modeled after bacteria and fully biocompatible, these robots optimize their movements so as to get to …read more Source:: Science
Waves in Saturn’s rings give precise measurement of planet’s rotation rate
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•Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the …read more Source:: Science
How to replace Windows 7 with Linux Mint
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•Windows 7 has less than a year of supported life left. If you really, really don’t like Windows 10, it’s time to consider running Linux Mint instead. …read more Source:: Linux
Saturn hasn’t always had rings
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•In its last days, the Cassini spacecraft looped between Saturn and its rings so that Earth-based radio telescopes could track the gravitational tug of each. Scientists have now used these …read more Source:: Science