Using MRI scans and computer modeling, scientists say they have further pinpointed areas of the human brain that regulate efforts to deal with fatigue. …read more Source:: Science
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Researchers convert female mosquitoes to nonbiting males with implications for mosquito control
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•Researchers have proven that a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes and identified a gene needed for male mosquito flight. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists find brain center that ‘profoundly’ shuts down pain
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•A research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain. Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns pain off, …read more Source:: Science
Git 2.26 fetches faster by default
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•By Paul Krill With the recent release of Git 2.26, the open source distributed version control system uses version 2 of Git’s network fetch protocol by default. This protocol, introduced in 2018, addresses …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft’s Scalar speeds up Git
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•By Paul Krill Addressing performance bottlenecks in the Git distributed version control system, Microsoft has introduced Scalar, a set of tools and extensions for Windows and MacOS users that helps …read more Source:: OpenSource
OpenJDK proposal: Dump Mercurial for Git
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•By Paul Krill Single-repo OpenJDK projects would move from Mercurial to Git version control under a JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) being reviewed by Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java …read more Source:: OpenSource
Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
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•Scientists have discovered that terahertz light — light at trillions of cycles per second — can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the …read more Source:: Science
Scientists uncover a trove of genes that could hold key to how humans evolved
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•New computational analysis finds that more than two dozen human zinc finger transcription factors, previously thought to control activity of similar genes across species have in fact human-specific roles and …read more Source:: Science
Researchers unravel mechanisms that control cell size
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•A multidisciplinary team has provided new insight into underlying mechanisms controlling the precise size of cells. The researchers found that ‘the adder,’ a function that guides cells to grow by …read more Source:: Science
Synthetic speech generated from brain recordings
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•A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract — an anatomically detailed computer simulation including the …read more Source:: Science