Using a nanoparticle as a ‘tuning device,’ researchers have devised a way to control electromagnetically induced transparency — a feature of light which allows it to pass through opaque media. …read more Source:: Science
Month: January 2020
How the solar system got its ‘Great Divide,’ and why it matters for life on Earth
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•Scientists have finally scaled the solar system’s equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range. …read more Source:: Science
High temperatures due to global warming will be dramatic even for tardigrades
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•A research group has just shown that tardigrades are very vulnerable to long-term high temperature exposures. The tiny animals, in their desiccated state, are best known for their extraordinary tolerance …read more Source:: Science
Linux gaming made easy: The fastest way to get up and running
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•Did you know that there are many top-tier commercial games available for Linux? Here’s the quickest way we know to get up and running. …read more Source:: Linux
Linus Torvalds: Avoid Oracle’s ZFS kernel code on Linux until ‘litigious’ Larry signs off
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•Torvalds doesn’t want to be hounded by Oracle’s legal team for merging ZFS filesystem code into the Linux kernel. …read more Source:: Linux
African grey parrots spontaneously ‘lend a wing’
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•People and other great apes are known for their willingness to help others in need, even strangers. Now, researchers have shown for the first time that some birds — and …read more Source:: Science
Making open source JavaScript pay
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•By Matt Asay Looking at the 2019 State of JavaScript report, something stands out: Money apparently can’t buy everything. Or, at least, not every major front-end and back-end programming framework is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Pathways that extend lifespan by 500 percent identified
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•Scientists have identified synergistic cellular pathways for longevity that amplify lifespan fivefold in C. elegans, a nematode worm used as a model in aging research. The increase in lifespan would …read more Source:: Science
Cancer mortality continues steady decline, driven by progress against lung cancer
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•The cancer death rate declined by 29 percent from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2 percent drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported, …read more Source:: Science
CES 2020: New Dell Linux developer XPS 13 laptop is on its way
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•The next-generation of Dell’s high-end Linux laptops will come with up to 32GB of RAM. …read more Source:: Linux