Last week’s Ubuntu 18.04 security fixes inadvertently caused problems for some users. Canonical has just released a new patch to fix these regressions. …read more Source:: Linux
Day: February 4, 2019
Laughter may be best medicine — for brain surgery
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•Neuroscientists have discovered a focal pathway in the brain that when electrically stimulated causes immediate laughter, followed by a sense of calm and happiness, even during awake brain surgery. The …read more Source:: Science
Diversity in the CD4 receptor protects chimpanzees from infection by AIDS-like viruses
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•Medical researchers have found that the CD4 surface protein, which is used by HIV and SIV as the receptor to enter immune cells, is highly variable among wild chimpanzees. Understanding …read more Source:: Science
A warming world increases air pollution
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•The new study shows that the contrast in warming between the continents and sea, called the land-sea warming contrast, drives an increased concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere that cause …read more Source:: Science
Transforming flat elastomers into 3D shapes
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•Researchers have developed a method to change the shape of a flat sheet of elastomer, using actuation that is fast, reversible, controllable by an applied voltage, and reconfigurable to different …read more Source:: Science
New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human-infecting virus
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•A new computational method called ‘CATCH’ designs molecular ‘baits’ for any virus known to infect humans and all their known strains, including those that are present in low abundance in …read more Source:: Science
Researcher unearths an ice age in the African desert
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•A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by geologists. …read more Source:: Science
Physicists create exotic electron liquid
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•By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists have created the first ‘electron liquid’ at room temperature. The achievement opens a pathway for development of the first …read more Source:: Science