It reveals a new high resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This work, in addition to it...
Expected to launch in early 2021, the $4.5-million GTOSat will gather measurements from a highly elliptical Earth orbit that is a standard transfer orbit for communications satellite...
An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered a galaxy that is missing most – if ...
Your code. However, a shared library cannot not know which tracing protocol is being used by each application. So, an abstract API which (a) has no dependencies, (b) is wire protocol...
However, there are indications that a neutron star with a maximum mass would collapse to a black hole if even just a single neutron were added. Together with his students Elias Most ...
As the NASA Space Radiation Health Project explains, in addition to the more immediate effects — like acute radiation sickness — exposure to radiation also increases astronauts’ risk...
The device could also be reconfigured to turn carbon dioxide back into fuel. Hydrogen is the cleanest-burning fuel, with water as its only emission. The method advanced by the new de...
The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE, also known as Wukong) mission published its first scientific results on Nov. 30 in Nature, presenting the precise measurement of cosmic ray ...
New research using data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission and FIREBIRD II CubeSat has shown that a common plasma wave in space is likely responsible for the impulsive loss of high...
China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST), still under commissioning, discovered a radio millisecond pulsar (MSP) coincident with the unassociated gamma-ray...
The conundrum has centred on DNA sequences that do not encode proteins, and yet remain identical across a broad range of animals. Now I’m like, dude, it took 14 years to figure this ...
The SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, a multi-institutional effort led by SLAC, is expanding the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not accessible to any other experiment Men...
Several years ago, Pat David, an engineer, a photographer, and a member of the GIMP team, realized there was no central place for people interested in photography to learn about free...
This process creates very high contrast images because it eliminates much of the background, out-of-focus, light that conventional microscopes pick up. While TIRF microscopy has been...
An international team of researchers has imaged newly forming jets of plasma from a massive black hole with unprecedented accuracy. Radio images made with a combination of telescopes...
Join us August 23 at 1PM ET for a free online event to learn how to make your site accessible and start increasing your sales. SpaceChainon Monday announced that it has entered a par...
Learn More. Nvidia will certify configurations for other public clouds in the future. Microsoft may be next in supporting NGC on Azure. A D V E R T I S E M E N T The open source ver...
Not surprisingly, NOAA officials have a hard time moving it around and managing it, Kearns said. Data Sharing NOAA is a big consumer of open source and sharing everything openly is ...
Further, the kit will be interoperable with the Python computing language. Microsoft announced the Quantum Development Kit at its Ignite conference last fall. Python Interoperability...
Early pairings with a particular fungus may influence whether a seed survives and also may help explain how tropical forests remain so diverse. Depending on the species of the seed i...
“Someone has to think about policy and how all the open source efforts would be coordinated, the processes and tools they would use, how would we keep track of projects, etc. So, we ...
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA – Wednesday, February 28, 2018 – The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Annual Report. The report is available in low...
“In this way, you can also set proper expectations for users, ensure that long-term project code dependencies are supported, and preserve your company’s reputation within the open so...
Led by Amazon Alexa, Nuance and Voicebox Technologies, the AGL Speech Expert Group is developing open APIs to voice-enable every application in the vehicle SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28, 2...
Linux processes and daemons Each Linux system has a bunch of processes running. What is a process? For example, when you type in a command like ls, it sees this as a known command a...