A new study has revealed the size of the legendary giant shark Megalodon, including fins that are as large as an adult human. …read more Source:: Science
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Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
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•In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. …read more Source:: Science
Human activity threatens vertebrate evolutionary history
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•A new study maps for the first time the evolutionary history of the world’s terrestrial vertebrates: amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. It explores how areas with large concentrations of evolutionarily …read more Source:: Science
9 offbeat databases worth a look
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•By Serdar Yegulalp By and large, if you need a database, you can reach for one of the big names—MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB—and get to work. But sometimes …read more Source:: OpenSource
What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop
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•By Ian Pointer Apache Spark defined Apache Spark is a data processing framework that can quickly perform processing tasks on very large data sets, and can also distribute data processing tasks across …read more Source:: OpenSource
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star’s atmosphere
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•Astronomers have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars known. This new finding provides an important clue on how …read more Source:: Science
The violent history of the big galaxy next door
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•Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighboring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now set its sights on the Milky Way as its next main course. …read more Source:: Science
12 Pythons for every programming need
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•By Serdar Yegulalp When you choose Python for software development, you choose a large language ecosystem with a wealth of packages covering all manner of programming needs. But in addition to libraries for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater
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•A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system — the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin — and may contain metal from the …read more Source:: Science
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
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•Earth has a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes Earth’s axis. Both are essential for life to develop on our planet. Scientists have now been …read more Source:: Science