Conservation decisions based on population counts may fail to protect large, slow-breeding animals from irrevocable decline, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
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Record solar hydrogen production with concentrated sunlight
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•Researchers have created a smart device capable of producing large amounts of clean hydrogen. By concentrating sunlight, their device uses a smaller amount of the rare, costly materials that are …read more Source:: Science
Mysterious eruption came from Campi Flegrei caldera
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•The caldera-forming eruption of Campi Flegrei (Italy) 40,000 years ago is the largest known eruption in Europe during the last 200,000 years, but little is known about other large eruptions …read more Source:: Science
New way supermassive black holes are ‘fed’
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•A new study finds that some supermassive black holes are ‘triggered’ to grow, suddenly devouring a large amount of gas in their surroundings. …read more Source:: Science
Oracle’s Wookiee brings microservices to Scala developers
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•By Paul Krill In the Star Wars movies, pilot Han Solo explored the galaxy accompanied by a large, hairy creature known as a Wookiee. Scala developers can build microservices with a framework …read more Source:: OpenSource
New security flaw impacts most Linux and BSD distros
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•Issue is only a privilege escalation flaw but it impacts a large number of systems. …read more Source:: Linux
Fossil evidence of large flowering trees in N. America 15 millions years earlier
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•A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly …read more Source:: Science
Breast cancer screening does not reduce mortality
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•Fewer and fewer women die from breast cancer in recent years but, surprisingly, the decline is just as large in the age groups that are not screened. The decline is …read more Source:: Science
Giving tortoises a ‘head start’
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•Research indicates that head-starting — raising a species in captivity and releasing it into a protected habitat after it has grown large enough to be less vulnerable to predators — …read more Source:: Science
Self-healing reverse filter opens the door for many novel applications
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•A self-healing membrane that acts as a reverse filter, blocking small particles and letting large ones through, is the ‘straight out of science fiction’ say mechanical engineers. …read more Source:: Science