You’ve been able to run many Linux distros on Windows thanks to WSL for years. Now, there’s a Linux distro built to work hand-in-glove with WSL. …read more Source:: Linux
Day: April 15, 2019
Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
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•Researchers have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow, a first. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. …read more Source:: Science
Plastic’s carbon footprint
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•From campaigns against microplastics to news of the great Pacific garbage patch, public awareness is growing about the outsized effect plastic has on the world’s oceans. However, its effect on …read more Source:: Science
North Atlantic warming hole impacts jet stream
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•The North Atlantic warming hole (NAWH), a region of reduced warming located in the North Atlantic Ocean, significantly affects the North Atlantic jet stream in climate simulations of the future. …read more Source:: Science
New compound allows bacterial communication to be controlled by light
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•Scientists have succeeded in incorporating a light-controlled switch into a molecule used by bacteria for quorum sensing — a process by which bacteria communicate and subsequently control different cellular processes. …read more Source:: Science