Development Release: Oracle Linux 7 RC (DistroWatch.com News)
Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 8.6 Simon Coter has announced the release of version 8.6 of Oracle Linux, an enterprise-class Linux distribution supported by Oracle and built from...
Calibre 1.42 Is the Best eBook Editing Tool on Linux
A new version of the Calibre eBook reader, editor, and library management software, has been released and features even more options to edit books. One of the latest features added t...
SwRI-led CubeSat mission selected by NASA to study solar particles and space weather
NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to develop CuSPP, a CubeSat mission to study Solar Particles over the Earth’s Poles. During the five-year project, engineers and...
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Fine, You Reached Pluto. So What’s Next?
It will be a very big deal when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally arrives at Pluto next July, after a nine-year, four-billion-mile-plus journey. Once considered to be a weird li...
Unreal Engine 4 and a whole new community
One month after Unreal Engine 4’s online launch, Epic Games released its 4.1 update, bringing PlayStation 4 and Xbox One support to subscribers at no additional cost, along with Stea...
Transfering magnetic fields across long distances
A new technology transfers magnetic fields to arbitrary long distances, which is comparable to transmitting and routing light in optical fibers. Oriol Romero-Isart and his colleagues...
The Real Sun Shower: How Rain and Waterfalls Form and Pour on our Nearest Star (VIDEO)
Yet this rain isn’t made of water. Now, scientists have taken a closer look at this bad weather, revealing a bit more about the processes that shape our nearest star. The plasma rain...
Microformats turn 9 years old [LWN.net]
[Development] Posted Jun 20, 2014 22:44 UTC (Fri) by n8willis At his blog, Tantek Çelik writes about the ninth birthday of the microformats effort, which seeks to express semantic i...
Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
So, it came as no surprise to anyone at the Linux Enterprise End-User Summit near Wall Street that once again the Top500 group found in its latest supercomputer ranking that Linux wa...
A new synthesis method enables the production of wafer-thin carbon layers
An international team headed by scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm has ...
World’s First Glow-in-the-Dark Road Promises a Brighter, More Energy-Efficient Future
While the “Smart Highway” team irons out the kinks for the photo-luminescent roadways, Roosegaarde is pushing the boundaries of glow-in-the-dark technology in yet another invention t...
What does a supernova sounds like?
There are no sounds in space. There’s not enough stuff in space to be considered a medium for sound to move through. Don’t get me wrong there’s stuff there. So, even if you did watch...
Webb telescope microshutters journey into NASA clean room
This closeup of the four microshutter arrays shows some shutters open and some closed. The microshutters were moved into a NASA Goddard cleanroom for testing to verify they work corr...
Using silicon dioxide as a binding layer for replacement bone prosthetics
Using the stuff of sand, silicon dioxide, as a binding layer for replacement bone prosthetics could allow more biocompatible artificial joints to be manufactured as well as reducing ...
The story of neutrinos – Physics World
Shy but significant, neutrinos may hold the key to some of the biggest questions in modern physics. In this podcast, astronomer Ray Jayawardhana tells the story of how these tiny, ne...
The link between weed and schizophrenia is way more complicated than we thought
In the 1960s and 1970s, scientists thought that smoking weed could trigger psychosis in just about anyone. The resulting studies suggest that the neurobiology underlying schizophreni...
Study grapples with ocean climate stress challenge
Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor (Phys.org) —Researchers are struggling to solve the challenge of predicting climate change impacts on marine environments. UQ Global Change Institute re...
Spacecraft Witness ‘Puffing’ Sun Causing a Reluctant Eruption
Astronomers have spotted an unusual series of eruptions form the sun, thanks to a suite of spacecraft. The outermost layer of the sun is called the corona. The big, slow structure is...
Should the Higgs boson have caused our Universe to collapse?
Credit: Robert Hogan, Kings College London (Phys.org) —British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the Universe should not have lasted for more than a second. To do this, th...
Shifting land won’t stop your journey
Now, ESA has looked at using satellites to watch for hazards across broad areas that could affect road and rail networks. Similarly, the Matist project, led by Gamma Remote Sensing a...
Sharper imaging using X-rays
3D X-ray optics of this kind allow the resolutions and optical intensities to be considerably improved. These three-dimensional nanostructures focus the incident X-rays much more eff...
Scientists use X-rays to look at how DNA protects itself from UV light
It’s such a strong absorber of ultraviolet light that the UV in sunlight should deactivate it, yet this does not happen. In a study reported in Nature Communications, researchers use...
Scholar finds world temperatures influence views on global warming
It is a timely issue in light of the White House’s recent proposal, the Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future, to reduce carbon emissions by the nation’s biggest source of pollution b...
Schizophrenia and cannabis use may share common genes
Genes that increase the risk of developing schizophrenia may also increase the likelihood of using cannabis, according to a new study led by King’s College London, published today in...