A cross-disciplinary multi-institutional team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by Professor Jian-Wei Pan, has spent more than ten years in developing a sophist...
The MIT team found that flu viruses’ rapid evolution relies in part on their ability to hijack some of the cellular machinery of the infected host cell – specifically, a group of pro...
Deepmind is setting up an ethic unit to allay growing fears that artificial intelligence could slip out of human control DeepMind, the Google sibling focusing on artificial intellig...
They performed several operations on one of the quantum states, such as measuring its decay rate by exciting a single phonon mode, waiting a variable amount of time and extracting th...
The local name server is configured to use the root name servers so the root name server for the .com top-level domain returns the IP Address of the authoritative name server for www...
Now scientists are reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society a new advance toward more practical, greener solar cells made with inexpensive halide perovskite material...
Importantly, it is from around the time when this dinosaur-crocodile split occurred, and therefore should hold important clues to the evolutionary history of these groups. The teeth ...
By investigating ‘fossilized’ sand cylinders made by lightning strikes, sometimes thousands of years old, a University of South Florida professor provides a unique history of lightni...
The discovery of the approximately 48-million-year-old tripartite fossil food chain is unique for Messel; worldwide, only one single comparable piece exists. In the year 2009, we wer...
Recent publications from Prof. Qi’s lab cover three different areas of innovation in perovskite film research: a novel post annealing treatment to increase perovskite efficiency and ...
The fossilised brain, found by fossil hunter Jamie Hiscocks near Bexhill in Sussex in 2004, is most likely from a species similar to Iguanodon: a large herbivorous dinosaur that live...
These discoveries were made possible by state-of-the-art 3-D imaging techniques. Fossil evidence Finding any cancer or neoplastic disease in the archaeological record has always bee...
The transition to land from our fishy ancestors is one of the most iconic, and best documented, transitions in the fossil record. We know that fleshy-limbed fish living in shallows u...
Alexandria, VA - As we celebrate National Fossil Day, EARTH Magazine brings you a story set in Pleistocene South America, where the climate was warming following an ice age. At this ...
To accomplish that goal, it established Project Cabeólica, the first public–private partnership to deliver commercial-scale wind power in sub-Saharan Africa. Combined with its solar ...
By Sophie Vorrath A team of Australian National University scientists has brought economically competitive, grid-scale solar thermal energy generation closer to reality, after achie...
What can we do to make this better so that more people can turn to their public library to learn about open source software, hardware, and principles? Find out where to point someone...
In their study of software forks, researchers Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain define a fork like this: [ Also on CIO.com: ...
Opensource.com community moderator Jono Bacon kicked off keynotes at All Things Open this year to talk about open source communities Building communities Jono mentioned that it’s h...
With more than 10 million units sold, the Raspberry Pi is a massive success. At this year’s All Things Open, community manager Ben Nuttall gave a five-minute lightning talk introduci...
But that is about where the similarities end: Venus is one the most hostile places in our solar system. This phenomenon is called superrotation, and it causes substantial turbulences...
Read more about the function of the pins at pinout.xyz Add-on boards / HATs You can connect simple components directly to the pins using jumper wires, or you can use a breadboard t...
Turn back the dial of time a bit. No, keep turning… a little more… there! Over 25 years ago, when some of your professional colleagues were still toddlers, Bram Moolenaar started wor...
The signature of water is present nearly everywhere on the lunar surface, not limited to the polar regions as previously reported, said the study’s lead author, Shuai Li, who perform...
Today, on the fifth anniversary of the release of the original Raspberry Pi, the Foundation has released Pi Zero W, a Pi Zero with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, for $10. The latest ad...