South American rivers are home to at least three different species of electric eels, including a newly identified species capable of generating a greater electrical discharge than any other known …read more Source:: Science
Month: September 2019
Lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan are explosion craters, new models suggest
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•Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft may help explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan are surrounded by steep rims that reach hundreds of feet high. The models suggests …read more Source:: Science
Are black holes made of dark energy?
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•Researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth of the universe. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft Teams for Linux client: It’s happening
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•Microsoft is working on a Teams client for Linux, officials have confirmed, but still no word on when it will arrive. …read more Source:: Linux
Deepest optical image of first neutron star merger
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•Astronomers have painstakingly constructed the afterglow of GW170817, the historic neutron star merger captured in 2017, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope. …read more Source:: Science
Hard as a diamond? Scientists predict new forms of superhard carbon
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•Superhard materials can slice, drill and polish other objects. Now, science is opening the door to the development of new materials with these seductive qualities. Researchers have used computational techniques …read more Source:: Science
Lightning ‘superbolts’ form over oceans from November to February
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•Lightning superbolts — which unleash a thousand times more low-frequency energy than regular lightning bolts — occur in dramatically different patterns than regular lightning, according to a new, nine-year survey …read more Source:: Science
Researchers unearth ‘new’ mass-extinction
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•A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Millions of Exim servers vulnerable to root-granting exploit
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•The internet’s most popular email server impacted by second major bug this summer. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference
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•Microsoft will be hosting a community conference on the Windows Subsystem for Linux and related technologies in March 2020. …read more Source:: Linux