A new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter reveals the giant planet’s trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere …read more Source:: Science
Month: August 2019
These sharks use unique molecules to glow green
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•In the depths of the sea, certain shark species transform the ocean’s blue light into a bright green color that only other sharks can see — but how they biofluoresce …read more Source:: Science
Open source has never been stronger
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•By Matt Asay There has perhaps never been so much angst over whether open source software development is sustainable, and yet there has never been clearer evidence that we’re in the golden age …read more Source:: OpenSource
KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code
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•The feature that a researcher discovered could be used to execute malicious code had no actual use case. …read more Source:: Linux
A long time ago, galaxies far, far away
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•Astronomers used the combined power of multiple astronomical observatories around the world and in space to discover a treasure-trove of previously unknown ancient massive galaxies. This is the first multiple …read more Source:: Science
Fear of predators causes PTSD-like changes in brains of wild animals
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•A new study demonstrates that the fear predators inspire can leave long-lasting traces in the neural circuitry of wild animals and induce enduringly fearful behavior, comparable to effects seen in …read more Source:: Science
Linux to get Teams client? Microsoft says ‘stay tuned’
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•Microsoft may soon deliver one of the most highly demanded improvements for Teams: a Linux client. …read more Source:: Linux
3 major Python shortcomings—and their solutions
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•By Serdar Yegulalp While Python has been around 30 years, only in the last few years has its popularity surged to surpass all programming languages but Java and C. On the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Final Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 version released
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•Red Hat has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. …read more Source:: Linux
Dead planets can ‘broadcast’ for up to a billion years
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•Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by ‘tuning in’ to the radio waves that they emit. …read more Source:: Science