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14.04.2025 | Xraised Exclusive: Sidhanta Panigrahy on Driving Cybersecurity Innovation Through Strategic System Integration | SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA, UNITED STATES, April 14, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a captivating Xraised (https://xraised.com/) interview, cybersecurity and digital transformation leader Sidhanta Panigrahy offers a deep dive into the evolvi... |
15.11.2024 | Проверяем фактор автобуса для опенсорсных проектов | Из Википедии: фактор автобуса (англ. bus factor, либо truck factor) проекта — это мера сосредоточения информации среди отдельных членов проекта; фактор показывает количество участников проекта, после потери которых (в оригинале — «попадания... |
16.10.2024 | Fantastic fossils and where to find them | U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently found a fossil that led to the discovery of a brand-new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops rangiformis. This horned dinosaur, an earlier relative of the triceratops, has asymmetric ho... |
05.07.2024 | Experts Just Discovered That Hippos Can Essentially 'Fly' When Observed on High-Speed Video | By John Lopez
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Of course, hippos cannot fly. How can these animals, which normally weigh thousands of p... |
06.05.2024 | Some Twin Cities suburbs move away from #NoMowMay | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Some Minnesota cities are easing off their #NoMowMay campaigns as turf experts warn about the drawbacks of taking a month off from lawn care.
The big picture: The campaign has spread widely on social ... |
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Local lawn care experts want you to think twice before you jump on the #NoMowMay bandwagon this year.
The big picture: The campaign has spread widely on social media in recent years, urging people to ... |
03.04.2024 | Artificial Sentience Achieved: Research Links Biological Sentience and Artificial Intelligence for the First Time | Dr. Marian Siwiak, the research author.
Architecture of an Artificial Sentience entity
Artificial Sentience does not necessarily mean Artificial General Intelligence (by DALL·E 3)
An entity meeting the criteria for artificial sentience deve... |
28.03.2024 | Как при помощи нейросети восстанавливали обугленные свитки из Помпеи (угадайте, с каким контентом внутри) | Результат одной из попыток физически развернуть обугленный свиток
С этими свитками из библиотеки в Геркулануме пошло не так абсолютно всё. Они на папирусе, который состоит из нескольких слоёв расплющенных и спрессованных тростниковых стебле... |
26.11.2023 | Исследование: люди, у которых есть домашние животные, больше внимательны и сострадательны к себе | Согласно онлайн-опросу, проведенному в Китае, медсестры, у которых есть домашние животные, в среднем имели более высокие баллы по самосостраданию и доброте к себе, но при этом более низкие по человечности в отличие от медсестер, у которых н... |
25.11.2023 | 10 iconic animals that were at risk of extinction but rebounded after the Endangered Species Act passed 50 years ago | A gray wolf, a bald eagle, and a grizzly bear Joe McDonald/Getty Images; Axel Goehns/Getty Images; Cris Cantón/Getty Images
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 passed and become law 50 years ago.
Many protected species have been saved from e... |
11.01.2023 | Эпистемология качества программного обеспечения | Допустим, вы приняли руководство новой командой. У вас есть картбланш на внедрение любой выбранной вами политики, чтобы сделать работу сотрудников более продуктивной, а код — менее «глючным». Что же вы предпримете?
На продаже ответа на этот... |
09.09.2022 | Учёные определили ключевые гены-драйверы онкологии | В настоящее время науке известны онкогенные мутации в более чем 300 генах, и зачастую возникает необходимость ранжировать их, чтобы определить мишени для основного воздействия при лечении. Но в большинстве случаев мутации ранжируются по час... |
19.05.2022 | Prehistoric dolphin species discovered in landlocked Switzerland | Previously unknown species of dolphin swam the oceans 20 million years ago, including in waters that covered Switzerland, today a landlocked country at the heart of Europe, researchers said Tuesday.
Back then, Switzerland was part of an isl... |
19.04.2022 | У вашей кожи тоже стресс | Классический модельный механизм для изучения стресса
Млекопитающие очень круто умеют нервничать. Особенно здорово это получается делать у крупных разновидностей вроде слонов. Расстроенный слон вполне может начать кидаться деревьями, мотоцик... |
08.04.2022 | Цифровая палеонтология: как информационные технологии помогают изучать динозавров | Палеонтология изучает то, чего нет: живые организмы далёкого прошлого, давно исчезнувшие экосистемы. Причём давность в палеонтологии измеряется не месяцами и годами, а тысячами, миллионами, а то и миллиардами лет. Но хотя взгляд палеонтолог... |
31.03.2022 | Crops grown with regenerative agriculture are healthier, study finds | Dive Brief:
Food grown using regenerative agriculture practices has higher nutritional content, according to a new University of Washington study published in science journal PeerJ. Regenerative farming is a way to restore the soil and wate... |
22.03.2022 | Seafood workers at higher risk for contracting COVID-19, study finds | A new study by the University of New Hampshire has found that workers in the seafood industry were twice as likely to contract COVID-19.
The study – “The direct and indirect effects of a global pandemic on U.S. fishers and seafood workers” ... |
09.01.2022 | В честь Леонардо Ди Каприо назван новый вид деревьев | 245 1 1 мин. ...
Международная группа ученых назвала новый вид деревьев в честь Леонардо Ди Каприо. Так ученое сообщество отблагодарило американского актера за его активную позицию в защите от вырубки заповедного леса Эбо в Камеруне, сообща... |
07.01.2022 | Meet the new tree from Cameroon named after Leonardo DiCaprio | An international team of researchers has now reported a new tropical tree from the Ebo Forest in Cameroon and named it after American actor and conservationist Leonardo DiCaprio. The paper published yesterday in the journal PeerJ explains t... |
24.04.2021 | T. rexes liked to walk as slowly as humans do — at a leisurely 3 miles per hour, a new study finds | The skeleton of a T. rex named Trix at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. Mike Bink
Tyrannosaurus rex couldn't run without shattering its bones, so its max walking speed was 25 mph.
But a new study suggests the dinosaur's pre... |
24.04.2021 | T. rexes liked to walk as slowly as humans do, a leisurely 5kph, a new study says | The skeleton of a T. rex named Trix at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands.
Mike Bink
Tyrannosaurus rex couldn't run without shattering its bones, so its max walking speed was 40kph.
But a new study suggests the dinosaur's pref... |
24.04.2021 | T. rexes liked to walk as slowly as humans do – at a leisurely 3 miles per hour, a new study finds | The skeleton of a T. rex named Trix at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. Mike Bink
Tyrannosaurus rex couldn’t run without shattering its bones, so its max walking speed was 40km/h.
But a new study suggests the dinosaur’s pre... |
23.04.2021 | Scientists Found a New Jurassic Reptile and It Looks Like a Pokémon | Scientists have discovered fossils of a new pterosaur species that lived in what is now northern China during the Jurassic period. And they are pretty adorable animals. Pterosaurs lived on Earth during the Mesozoic era (about 252 million to... |
17.03.2021 | Meet PyLadies, the women-led group helping 120,000 coders across the globe land jobs and diversify the popular Python programming language | Carol Willing, a Python core developer and member of the Python steering council. PyLadies This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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01.02.2021 | Extinction Seems Imminent For Sharks And Rays | Marine scientists knew sharks were in trouble, but the results of a new Nature study show just how grim things really are. The devastating documents show a 71% decline of oceanic shark and ray populations over the past 50 years – and it’s p... |
06.12.2020 | 3 Reasons Scientists Endure Social Media Trolls And Attacks | Social media is an interesting place. It can be a repository of amazing information and access. At the same time, it can be a cesspool of mean-spiritedness and misinformation. It can be a place for credible experts to connect with others be... |
29.11.2020 | What Baby Megalodon Sharks And You Probably Have In Common | What’s one thing we have in common with a baby (Megalodon) shark? Growing up in a nursery! |
05.08.2020 | How we tracked the eating habits of snakes in Africa with the help of a Facebook group | A boomslang eating a bullfrog. Provided by author/ G Cusins |
05.08.2020 | How we tracked the eating habits of snakes in Africa with the help of a Facebook group | A boomslang eating a bullfrog. Provided by author/ G Cusins
by Bryan Maritz and Robin Maritz
Snakes are a diverse lineage of reptiles that are found on every continent except Antarctica. Despite differences in appearance, habitat preference... |
02.08.2020 | Letters to the editor: COVID-19; Boulder police; wolf reintroduction; environmental protection; social protests | Emma Kieran Schaefer: COVID-19: What happened to the howl?
Every day in the spring, I looked forward to the 8 p.m. howl. Along with so many other people across the U.S., I’d walk outside at 8 p.m. and join in with neighbors’ exuberant howli... |
04.12.2019 | Scoop: A 2018 acquisition paved the way for Teladoc Health's new nutrition offering | |
08.08.2019 | Apple Launches Spine-Tingling ASMR Videos As Part Of 'Shot On iPhone' Series | Naia Carlos, Tech Times 08 August 2019, 05:08 am
Apple has released four new autonomous sensory meridian response or ASMR videos as part of their "Shot on iPhone" campaign.
There's a sizable ASMR community online, and the tech com... |
19.02.2019 | Move clinical trial data sharing from an option to an imperative | Data from clinical trials have long been locked away, some in this principal investigator’s computer bank, some in that pharmaceutical company’s cloud. For years we have been talking about opening up those vaults and freeing these data. The... |
09.01.2019 | It took 60 years for a ‘sea monster’ skull to reveal its secrets | Originally Published by:
California’s monarch butterfly population is ‘disturbingly low,’ falling 86 percent in 1 year: scientists SpaceX's 'Starship' hopper prototype could make 1st test flight in weeks, Elon Musk says Amelia Earhart would... |
09.11.2018 | Женщины в Computer Science. Часть 3. Зачем всё-таки их нужно больше | Darina Obukhova 9 ноября 2018, 09:11 Женщины в Computer Science. Часть 3. Зачем всё-таки их нужно больше
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24.09.2018 | Cornell finds food researcher Brian Wansink guilty of academic misconduct | Wansink’s research into food psychology and consumer behaviour and the work done by his team at the research lab he founded in 1997, the Cornell Food and Brand lab, has been highly publicised over the years, reported in many media outlets i... |
14.09.2018 | Patients vs. paywalls: Is the U.S. ready for open-access publishing? | Scientific publishing giant Elsevier recently came under fire after its director of scholarly communications, William Gunn, wrote a controversial tweet in response to a post that “people shouldn’t have to jump through hoops” to access impor... |
09.09.2018 | Algae-eating sea urchins help keep Kaneohe Bay reef clean | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Video courtesy Brian Nielson / State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources
Native sea urchins prove effective in a large-scale study on managing invasive algae.
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17.08.2018 | As Academic Publishers Fight And Subvert Open Access, Preprints Offer An Alternative Approach For Sharing Knowledge Widely | The key idea behind open access is that everyone with an Internet connection should be able to read academic papers without needing to pay for them. Or rather without needing to pay again, since most research is funded using taxpayers’ mone... |
13.08.2018 | Native sea urchins help clear invasive macroalgae from Oahu reef, study finds | COURTESY DLNR/DAR
Divers used the Super Sucker, left, and outplanted sea urchins.
A University of Hawaii at Manoa study has found that native sea urchins can successfully reduce the invasive, reef-smothering macroalgae by 85 percent on a co... |
20.06.2018 | Unconscious bias in tech: get over it | Imagine you have two CVs on your desk and only one interview slot left to offer. Both applicants have great experience, a similar educational background and both have had career success. What differentiates them is their gender. One CV is f... |
02.05.2018 | As digital health companies proliferate, it’s getting tougher to spot the strongest businesses | But if you dig a little deeper, there are some interesting things to notice.
Another thing to notice: some deals are way more equal than others, to misquote a book almost everyone was forced to read in junior high. Megadeals have come to di... |
13.03.2018 | Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On | The open access movement believes that academic publications should be freely available to all, not least because most of the research is paid for by the public purse. Open access supporters see the high cost of many academic journals, whos... |
06.12.2017 | The International Space Station is as gross as your own home | Originally Published by:
Scientists are using dogs instead of traps to study endangered species Why did NASA’s rover just find a cannonball on Mars? Archaeologists discover ancient space tools
When you think of the International Space Stati... |
01.08.2017 | Streisand Effect Helps Sci-Hub To Acquire Almost All Scholarly Literature, Dooms Traditional Academic Publishing | Techdirt has been covering the story of Sci-Hub, which provides unrestricted access to a massive (unauthorized) database of academic papers, for a while now. As several posts have emphasized, the decision by the publishing giant Elsevier to... |
27.04.2017 | CORRECTION: Study finds mislabeling issues in Washington, D.C. | In the article, "Study finds mislabeling issues in Washington, D.C.," SeafoodSource incorrectly reported that a Chilean sea bass sample was mislabeled because it was called "Patagonian toothfish". In the United States, i... |
08.02.2017 | Newly Discovered Gecko Gets Extremely Nude in Order to Survive | You know that trope in horror movies, where the villain grabs someone by their clothes only to be foiled when the victim wriggles free, leaving the abandoned garments in the hands of the thwarted killer?
It turns out that Geckolepis megalep... |
03.02.2017 | Women Coders Are Rated Higher, As Long As Their Gender Is Unknown | The gender gap is a well-documented social phenomenon that affects pretty much everyone. Women, particularly in tech, are notably misrepresented in the workforce, and when they're well-represented, their pay hardly reflects any semblance of... |
25.10.2016 | This AI judge correctly predicts court case results 80% of time | A team of computer scientists and legal professionals has created artificial intelligence with the ability to accurately predict the outcome of 79 percent of cases decided upon by the European Court of Human Rights.
The performance of the a... |
30.05.2016 | The real reason more women don’t code | By Karin Verspoor
I menstruate, and I code. I share this perhaps shocking personal information in the interest of full disclosure, and in solidarity with a new satirical campaign from Girls Who Code.
The campaign proposes a simple explanati... |
15.02.2016 | New study says women are more competent coders than men | For centuries now, women have been under-estimated in their level of intellect and expertise. But this latest study suggests otherwise. The study conducted by a group of researchers suggests that female coders may be more competent than wha... |
12.02.2016 | Women Code Better Than Men But Only If They Hide Their Gender, Study Suggests | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 12 February 2016, 01:02 pm
According to a new study, computer code being written by women has higher approval ratings than the code written by men - but only if the gender of the coder is being hidden.
A numb... |
09.02.2016 | There Is Less Poison in Fish Than You Think | It's not all bad news under the sea.
Sure, pretty much every kind of white fish is infected with worms, shark meat is kind of toxic, and about a quarter of all fish contain traces of man-made trash in their digestive system, but there is th... |
22.09.2015 | ‘Microbial cloud’ in breath could identify you, much like skin or hair | The researchers found that within four hours of analyzing the particulates in the air and examining the combinations of bacteria they could actually identify who was who within the participants.
Eleven participants were involved in the anal... |
20.07.2015 | Исследование оценило живучесть сообществ разработчиков на GitHub
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25.06.2014 | Is Facelock the password alternative we’ve been waiting for? | One of the problems with using passwords to prove identity is that passwords that are easy to remember are also easy for an attacker to guess, and vice versa.
Nevertheless, passwords are cheap to implement and well understood, so despite th... |
23.04.2014 | The Smartest Animals In The World | A group of African elephants and their calves cross a road in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Getty
Plenty of animals in nature have developed their own intelligences based on evolutionary needs.
Chimpanzees have outsmarted humans at me... |
12.03.2014 | 23andMe CEO: ‘We need to return to delivering health information’ | AUSTIN, Texas — 23andMe‘s chief executive Anne Wojcicki kicks off her stilettos and sinks into a couch.
Minutes into our interview, it’s clear that Wojcicki is exhausted. After months of relative radio silence, she’s back in the game with a... |
25.01.2014 | Mike Taylor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | Mike Taylor here, and it’s my pleasure to be your Posts Of The Week host. By day I’m a computer programmer, working for Index Data, the world’s tiniest multinational software house, with a portfolio mostly made up of free software. At night... |
12.02.2013 | How PeerJ Is Changing Everything In Academic Publishing | Has there ever been a business more ripe for disruption than academic publishing? For anyone who’s not been following along, the business model of academic publishers, built on solving 18th century distribution problems, incarnates the Shir... |
- | ‘Microbial cloud’ in breath could identify you, much like skin or hair | We are continuously leaving behind traces of bacteria from our skin and hair that could potentially identify us as individuals. Researchers from the University of Oregon have now found that even the air we exhale could actually be an identi... |
- | Женщины лучше мужчин справляются с редактированием кода – ученые | Об этом пишет N+1 со ссылкой на препринт статьи ученых.
Данные для своей работы исследователи из Университета Северной Каролины получили через GHTorrent в апреле 2015 года. В частности, их интересовала информация о пользователях, проектах и... |
- | Женщины справляются с редактированием кода на GitHub лучше, чем мужчины | Женщины справляются с редактированием кода на GitHub лучше, чем мужчины
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- | As digital health companies proliferate, it’s getting tougher to spot the strongest businesses | Caveat Emptor, Caveat Venditor. That is my official blog post foreshadowing.
The digital health rocket seems to have gotten supercharged lately, at least when it comes to fundraising. Depending on who you ask, either $1.62 billion (Rock Hea... |
- | A fossil hunter found bones on the Isle of Wight before he died. He likely discovered Europe's "largest predatory dinosaur." | A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe, scientists said on Thursday. Most of the bones of the two-legged spinosaurid we... |
- | Europe’s largest carnivorous dinosaur found in UK’s Isle of Wight | Fossilised bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England’s Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin of the biggest carnivorous dinosaur species ... |