Bananas: Facts, benefits and nutrition
Can you eat too many bananas? If you eat dozens of bananas every day, there may be a risk of consuming excessively high amounts of vitamins and minerals. It contains high amounts of ...
The Next Most Powerful Supercomputer in the U.S. Is Almost Complete
Computing for Science Inside one of the rooms of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) at Tennessee, the next fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the U.S. is getting ready...
The Linux Foundation Releases Annual Kernel Development Report
This year’s paper covers work completed through Linux kernel 4.13, with an emphasis on releases 4.8 to 4.13. The complete top 30 contributing organizations can be seen in the full re...
Supercomputers help scientists improve seismic forecasts for California
High-performance computing on TACC’s Stampede system, and during the early user period of Stampede2, allowed us to create what is, by all measures, the most advanced earthquake forec...
Self-esteem mapped in the human brain
The researchers used the new equation to identify signals in the human brain that explain why self-esteem goes up and down when we learn other people’s judgments of us. They say the ...
Researchers explore how chewing affects teeth on the nanoscale
This image shows the nanoscale crystallites that make up tooth enamel before and after researchers applied pressure. The researchers used high-powered microscopes to observe the effe...
Photonic nanostructures bring bees to flowers – Physics World
Animal attraction: structural colour makes some flowers easy to spot Repeating nanostructures on the petals of certain flowers help to attract bees, scientists have shown. Pigments ...
How to Run Commands from Standard Input Using Tee and Xargs in Linux
Read Also: Learn The Basics of How Linux I/O (Input/Output) Redirection Works Two of the most important command line utilities that can be used with pipelines to buil...
How the Squid Lost Its Shell
Giant squid are the sea’s best monsters, tentacles down. Megalodon showed up a mere 23 million years ago. But how did we get from Endoceras to Architeuthis? And squid? Well, the shel...
How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe
BUFFALO, N.Y. – When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and Turkey before heading deeper into Asia and Europe. The research, p...
High-speed locomotion neurons found in the brainstem
A clearly defined subpopulation of neurons in the brainstem is essential to execute locomotion at high speeds. Brainstem plays important role in control of movement Spinal circuits ...
CERN Scientist on What Physicists Have Left to Discover After Higgs Boson
They had observed the Higgs boson, an elementary particle predicted by one of the best models for physics in the universe. Those in the know might have been anticipating this observa...
Brain region that motivates behavior change discovered
Once the salesman understands this, he follows that pattern until it stops working and a behavior change is necessary for continued prosperity. Monkeys in the traveling-salesman expe...
ATLAS Experiment studies photon-tagged jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma
Figure 1: Event display of a lead-lead collision with a large transverse momentum photon. Events in which a jet is produced opposite a high momentum photon are particularly useful si...
What’s the Future of Web Dev?
To gather insights on the state of web application development today, we spoke with 12 executives who are familiar with the current state of the industry and asked them, What’s the f...
Singapore Will Stop Adding New Cars to Its Roads in 2018
Limited Space in Singapore The city-state of Singapore has announced a plan to reduce the vehicle growth rate from 0.25 percent per year to 0 percent for cars and motorcycles. The p...
Scientists develop new theory of molecular evolution
The approach rests on understanding proteins as integrated systems, said Goldstein. It turns out this is really important for understanding why these molecules evolve the way they do...
Red Hat Introduces Next Generation of OpenShift Online Public Cloud Offering
Based on the same Linux container- and Kubernetes-based foundation as the award-winning Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Online gives developers the ability to...
Potato nutrition facts & health benefits
In fact, a study published in 2017 in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (opens in new tab) found that people who ate fried potatoes twice a week saw an increased risk of dea...
Moment of impact: A journey into the Chicxulub Crater
The expedition targeted Chicxulub crater’s peak ring and overlying rock sequences. Highlights of IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 are featured in the October 2017 issue of GSA Today, and on ...
MIT neuroscientists build case for new theory of memory formation
The researchers also showed that even though memories held by silent engrams cannot be naturally recalled, the memories persist for at least a week and can be “awakened” days later b...
Linux Foundation Debuts Community Data License Agreement
New open data licenses make it easier for individuals and organizations of all types to share, analyze and use data collaboratively PRAGUE (OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT EUROPE 2017), October ...
Fruit-eating increases biodiversity
By dispersing the seeds of plants, fruit-eating animals contribute to the possibility of increased plant speciation and thus biodiversity. ‘The aim of our study was to compare past s...
Fossils from the world’s oldest trees reveal complex anatomy never seen before
Fossils from a 374-million-year-old tree found in north-west China have revealed an interconnected web of woody strands within the trunk of the tree that is much more intricate than ...
British Army Migrates Cloud Infrastructure to Red Hat Solutions
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible Tower by Red Hat, the British Army is able to deliver applications more quickly and efficiently, with less downtime, to better meet the need...