Some 18 million years ago, a tiny monkey weighing little more than a baseball lived in the Amazon rainforest, the smallest fossil monkey known worldwide. The finding is based on …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2019
New Raspberry Pi laptop rival: $200 Linux-based Pinebook Pro available to pre-order
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•Linux fans get a new cheap laptop to mess around with, powered by the popular Rockchip RK3399. …read more Source:: Linux
Red Hat CTO Chris Wright talks about Red Hat’s future with IBM
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•In a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Red Hat CTO Wright dishes on open-source and the future of Red Hat products and technologies with IBM. …read more Source:: Linux
Shark hotspots under worldwide threat from overfishing
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•Over 150 scientists from 26 countries combined movement data from nearly 2,000 sharks tracked with satellite tags. Using this tracking information, researchers identified areas of the ocean that were important …read more Source:: Science
New cause of cell aging discovered
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•New research could be key to our understanding of how the aging process works. The findings potentially pave the way for better cancer treatments and revolutionary new drugs that could …read more Source:: Science
Scientists find clue to ‘maternal instinct’
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•Oxytocin is referred to as the love hormone and is important in the regulation of social and maternal behavior. The oxytocin system in the brain may be key to new …read more Source:: Science
Einstein’s general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now
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•In the most comprehensive test of general relativity near the monstrous black hole at the center of our galaxy, researchers report that Einstein’s theory of general relativity holds up, at …read more Source:: Science
‘Limitless potential’ of artificial protein ushers in new era of ‘smart’ cell therapies
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•A first-of-its-kind artificial protein — designed on a computer and synthesized in the lab — can be used to build brand-new biological circuits inside living cells. These circuits transform ordinary …read more Source:: Science
BT will use Ubuntu and OpenStack to power 5G transformation
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•In a major win for Canonical, BT, formerly British Telecom, will rely on Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack cloud to deploy 5G in the UK and around the globe. …read more Source:: Linux
Wasmer takes WebAssembly server-side
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•By Paul Krill Developers at Wasmer are betting big on WebAssembly, building a runtime intended to do for WebAssembly what Node.js did for JavaScript – establish it server-side. The company …read more Source:: OpenSource