Yesterday, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator began its second act. After two years of upgrades and repairs, proton beams once again circulated around the Large Hadron Collider, located at …read more Source:: Science
New treatment for dementia discovered: Deep brain stimulation
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•New brain cells can be formed through deep brain stimulation, improving memory retention, researchers report. For decades, scientists have been finding ways to generate brain cells to boost memory and …read more Source:: Science
The new struggles facing open source
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•By Matt Asay The early days of open source were fraught with religious animosities we feared would tear apart the movement: free software fundamentalists haggling with open source pragmatists over how many Apache …read more Source:: OpenSource
CERN restarts Large Hadron Collider, seeks dark universe
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•GENEVA (Reuters) – Scientists at Europe’s physics research center CERN on Sunday restarted their “Big Bang” Large Hadron Collider (LHC), embarking on a bid to probe into the “dark universe” …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
The best HDMI operating system sticks
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•There’s a new kind of computer in town and it’s resides on an HDMI stick that’s not much bigger than a pack of gum. …read more Source:: Linux
‘Big Bang’ particle collider restarts after refit: CERN
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•ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) – Scientists at Europe’s nuclear research center CERN said on Sunday they had restarted their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) “Big Bang” machine after a two-year refit, launching a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Theoretical study suggests huge lava tubes could exist on moon
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•Lava tubes large enough to house cities could be structurally stable on the moon, according to a theoretical study. …read more Source:: Science
Reef fish can adjust sex ratios as oceans warm
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•Using a multigenerational experiment research has shown for the first time that when reef fish parents develop from early life at elevated temperatures they can adjust their offspring’s sex through …read more Source:: Science
Want a quick 3-D copy of something? Camera chip for smartphone provides superfine 3-D resolution
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•Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its …read more Source:: Science