One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA’s Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping …read more Source:: Science
Month: February 2019
New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail provides evolutionary clues for African continent
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•A new dinosaur that wears its ‘heart’ on its tail provides new clues to how ecosystems evolved on the African continent during the Cretaceous period. …read more Source:: Science
Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar
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•This work started 10 years ago, when the first dates using the OSL method were obtained. It is then that the first traces of footprints left by vertebrates were found. …read more Source:: Science
Antarctic ice shelves buckle under weight of meltwater lakes
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•The filling and draining of meltwater lakes has been found to cause a floating Antarctic ice shelf to flex, potentially threatening its stability. …read more Source:: Science
Ecosystem changes following loss of great white sharks
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•A new study has documented unexpected consequences following the decline of great white sharks from an area off South Africa. The study found that the disappearance of great whites has …read more Source:: Science
No, you can’t take open-source code back
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•A popular note on the Linux Kernel Mailing List claims that a program’s author can block people from using his code at his discretion. Wrong. …read more Source:: Linux
Possibility of recent underground volcanism on Mars
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•New research suggests liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. Now, a new study argues there needs to be an underground source of heat for …read more Source:: Science
Climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generation
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•In one generation, the climate experienced in many North American cities is projected to change to that of locations hundreds of miles away — or to a new climate unlike …read more Source:: Science
Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 released
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•Red Hat is tightening the integration of its Red Hat CloudForms infrastructure management tool with its Ansible DevOps tools to better manage the hybrid cloud. …read more Source:: Linux
NASA finds possible second impact crater under Greenland ice
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•A NASA glaciologist has discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. …read more Source:: Science