A phenomenon that makes coral spawn more than once a year is improving the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef. The discovery was made by researchers investigating whether corals that …read more Source:: Science
Month: August 2019
Scientists create the world’s thinnest gold
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•Scientists have created a new form of gold which is just two atoms thick — the thinnest unsupported gold ever created. …read more Source:: Science
Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter
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•Just viewing –not running– a malicious .desktop or .directory file inside a file browser can run malicious code on a user’s system. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft: New Windows Terminal update is out and it’s ‘huge’
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•Microsoft’s new command-line tool, Terminal, gets its biggest update ever. …read more Source:: Linux
New long-term support version of Linux Mint desktop released
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•The best Linux desktop gets a refresh that will last users until 2023. …read more Source:: Linux
What is open source software? Open source and FOSS explained
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•By Josh Fruhlinger Underlying every piece of software you use is source code that issues the commands and handles the data that allow the software to do what it does. The question of …read more Source:: OpenSource
GNOME and KDE work together on the Linux desktop
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•Fragmentation has long been a problem for the Linux desktop, but now the two biggest open-source desktop foundations are joining forces. …read more Source:: Linux
3D printing the human heart
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•Researchers have published a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult human heart. …read more Source:: Science
Hubble uncovers a ‘heavy metal’ exoplanet shaped like a football
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•How can a planet be ‘hotter than hot?’ The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet’s atmosphere, instead of condensing into clouds. …read more Source:: Science
Drop of ancient seawater rewrites Earth’s history
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•The remains of a microscopic drop of ancient seawater has assisted in rewriting the history of Earth’s evolution when it was used to re-establish the time that plate tectonics started …read more Source:: Science