Scientists have studied potential cancer suppression mechanisms in cetaceans, the mammalian group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Biologists picked apart the genome of the humpback whale, as well as …read more Source:: Science
Month: May 2019
Two crypto-mining groups are fighting a turf war over unsecured Linux servers
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•War in the Cloud: The Rocke and Pascha group are at each other’s throats competing for vulnerable systems. …read more Source:: Linux
New type of highly sensitive vision discovered in deep-sea fish
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•The deep sea is home to fish species that can detect various wavelengths of light in near-total darkness. Unlike other vertebrates, they have several genes for the light-sensitive photopigment rhodopsin, …read more Source:: Science
Methane-consuming bacteria could be the future of fuel
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•Researchers have found that the enzyme responsible for the methane-methanol conversion in methanotrophic bacteria catalyzes the reaction at a site that contains just one copper ion. This finding could lead …read more Source:: Science
Climate change is giving old trees a growth spurt
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•Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China — the northernmost tree species on Earth — are growing faster as a result of climate change. A new study of …read more Source:: Science
Discovery may lead to new materials for next-generation data storage
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•New research has identified properties in materials that could one day lead to applications such as more powerful data storage devices that continue to hold information even after a device …read more Source:: Science
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
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•Astronomers found that as planets form out of the chaotic churn of gravitational, hydrodynamic — or, drag — and magnetic forces and collisions within the dusty, gaseous protoplanetary disk that …read more Source:: Science
Alpine Linux Docker images ship a root account with no password
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•Attackers can authenticate on vulnerable systems using the root user and no password. …read more Source:: Linux
OpenShift 4: Red Hat’s on ramp for the hybrid cloud
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•Red Hat’s Kubernetes platform, OpenShift, is how Red Hat plans to build hybrid clouds. …read more Source:: Linux
A new filter to better map the dark universe
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•To address messy measurements of the cosmic web that connects matter in the universe, researchers developed a way to improve the accuracy and clarity of these measurements based on the …read more Source:: Science