The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test — a method considered the gold standard for …read more Source:: Science
Month: February 2019
Charting a path to cheaper flexible solar cells
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•Researchers have reported new findings about perovskite solar cells that could lead the way to devices that perform better. …read more Source:: Science
Periodic table still influencing today’s research
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•This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, and the principles that drove Dmitri Mendeleev to construct his table are still influencing today’s research advances. …read more Source:: Science
A thousand new objects and phenomena in night sky
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•The Zwicky Transient Facility, based at the Palomar Observatory, has identified over a thousand new objects and phenomena in the night sky, including more than 1,100 new supernovae and 50 …read more Source:: Science
A very small number of crops are dominating globally: That’s bad news for sustainable agriculture
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•A new study finds that globally we’re growing more of the same kinds of crops, and this presents major challenges for agricultural sustainability on a global scale. …read more Source:: Science
Beaked whales’ incredible diving abilities confirmed
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•A new study provides the first record of the diving behavior of Cuvier’s beaked whales in US Atlantic waters. The species is Earth’s deepest-diving mammal but spends very little recovery …read more Source:: Science
Sharp bends make rivers wander
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•Left to their own devices and given enough time, rivers wander, eroding their banks and leaving their old channels behind. It’s a behavior that engineers have to keep in mind …read more Source:: Science
Python 3 and data science top Python developer survey
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•By Serdar Yegulalp JetBrains, maker of the PyCharm IDE for Python, have released the results of the company’s Python Developers Survey for 2018, a snapshot of the tools, preferences, and sentiments …read more Source:: OpenSource
Red Hat introduces first Kubernetes-native IDE
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•Containers and Kubernetes are great, but they didn’t have a native integrated development environment… until now. …read more Source:: Linux
Think pink: Fluorescent pink flying squirrel in UV light at night
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•The North American flying squirrel fluoresces pink at night under ultraviolet light, but the purpose of the pink color is still a mystery to researchers. …read more Source:: Science