Icarus lifts off
In future, it will be responsible for decoding the signals received by the Icarus antenna and separating the different data streams from each other. Credit: dpa After the launch of ...
Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created by the merger of two neutron stars. This merger created a kilonova – a...
How bees find their way home
The study, involving nocturnal rain forest bees, identifies which neurons in the brain allow the bee to measure speed and distance covered. In a laboratory environment, the researche...
Habitat loss is the top threat to Australia’s species
But does habitat loss through land clearing still top the list? Land clearing threat According to an analysis of data from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IU...
ESO telescopes observe first light from gravitational wave source
For the first time ever, astronomers have observed both gravitational waves and light (electromagnetic radiation) from the same event, thanks to a global collaborative effort and the...
Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics
The 2017 Guide to Java explores upcoming features of Java 9, how to make your apps backwards-compatible, a look into whether Microservices are right for you, and using the Futures AP...
Solar research: On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves
Their model is based in the dynamics of plasma – the hot gas of charged particles that streams along magnetic fields and constitutes the sun. Some particles are still neutral, and ne...
Purple power: Synthetic ‘purple membranes’ transform sunlight to hydrogen fuel
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have found a new way to produce solar fuels by developing completely synthetic bionano machinery to harvest...
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Learn The Basics of How Linux I/O (Input/Output) Redirection Works
For instance to append the output of top command above in the top.log file especially within a script (or on the command line), enter the line below: $ top -bn 5 »top.log Note: Usi...
Google will be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2018
The corporate giant made quick progress towards meeting its goal, which was set in 2016 and will be fulfilled by 2018. In its 2017 Environmental Report, Google declared that it had p...
First atomic structure from UTSW’s cryo-EM facility
The work marks the first such structure determined using the university’s $17 million cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) facility that opened last year. Their study, published online...
An introduction to machine learning today
Let the computer do it What these examples have in common—what the new approach to machine learning is about and why this hasn’t been done before—is that the computer does a lot of ...
Achieving high-value chemical diversity for the pharmaceutical artificial intelligence
One of the most significant tasks at Insilico Medicine is adapting best neural network architectures for drug discovery process and it is committed to publishing the proof of concept...
3-D atomic structure of TRPML1 ion channel published
The illustration shows the studied protein embedded in a nanodisc structure (top left) and three views of the TRPML1 ion channel from different angles. Credit: UT Southwestern UT So...
2017 Red Hat Government Symposium to Highlight the Role of Open Source in Meeting the Challenges of Government IT
This year’s Red Hat Government Symposium is expected to bring together more than 650 government technology and industry professionals to discuss how open source collaboration can hel...
What is DevOps? An executive guide to agile development and IT operations
How can DevOps help help you? DevOps: Why use it? These are continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) programs, DevOps software, and container orchestration programs. Whi...
Spotting the spin of the Majorana fermion under the microscope
Their method involved detecting a distinctive quantum property known as spin, which has been proposed for transmitting quantum information in circuits that contain the Majorana parti...
Single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16 million atoms: Researchers have demonstrated the entanglement between 16 million atoms in a crystal crossed by a single photon, confirming the theory b
Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, recently reengineered their data processing, demonstrating that 16 million atoms were entangled in a one-centimetre cryst...
Sentinel-5P liftoff
Replay of the Sentinel-5P liftoff on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) on 13 October 2017. Sentinel-5P – the ‘P’ standing for ‘Precur...
Satellites map photosynthesis at high resolution: Precise measurement of the solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence enables scientists to quantify gross primary production
Life on Earth is impossible without photosynthesis. They used data of the NASA satellite OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2) to map the so-called solar-induced chlorophyll fluoresc...
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For one day only, LHC collides xenon beams
The team working on the ion run in the CERN control centre as the xenon run begins. Normally, lead nuclei, which have a much greater mass, are used. The experiments will conduct the ...
Brain waves reflect different types of learning
advertisement Brain waves from earlier studies When the MIT researchers studied the behavior of animals learning different tasks, they found signs that different tasks might requir...
Biology study suggests father’s nutrition before sex could contribute to health of baby: Biologists find the diet of male fruit flies influences the survivorship of their embryos.
UC researchers fed females the same diet. And by mating the males consecutively, researchers wanted to learn about the effect of male mating order and what role diet played in changi...