The world of Linux: Where making a laptop engage its wired connection when attached to a dock is an exercise in frustration....
Hexbyte Glen Cove Study shows that Japanese bats urgently require conservation action
The Okinawan Least Horseshoe Bat, one of the endemic species found in central and southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan. Credit: Kyoto University/Island Bat Research Group Here's a fun fact: Japan has more bat species than any other order of mammal in the country, and a third of these are endemic. But the bad news...
Hexbyte Glen Cove Peatland preservation vital to climate
Arctic peatland in Svalbard. Credit: Angela Gallego-Sala Preserving the world's peatlands—and the vast carbon stores they contain—is vital to limiting climate change, researchers say. The study, led by the University of Exeter and Texas A&M University, examines peatland losses over human history and predicts these will be "amplified" in the future. Peatlands are expected...
Hexbyte Glen Cove Arctic ground squirrels recycle nutrients to endure deep hibernation
A researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks holds a hibernating Arctic ground squirrel. Credit: Carla Frare By studying the body chemistry of hibernating Arctic ground squirrels, researchers have found that the animals are able to recycle their body's own nutrients to survive during a long, inactive winter. A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led study...
Hexbyte Glen Cove Catch up on Linux.conf.au 2014
If you failed to make the trip to Perth for LCA this year, you are able to watch most of the talks online....
Hexbyte Glen Cove An exercise in fragmentation: Limiting Android installs to device models
As if there were not enough fragmentation issues with Android, app makers go out and make it worse when they limit installations to specific devices....
Hexbyte Glen Cove Australian enterprises turn focus from BYOD to apps
Having come to grips with consumerisation and BYOD entering the marketplace, Australian businesses have set their target on creating apps to serve internal and external customers....
Hexbyte Glen Cove Anti-gravity: How a boat can float upside down
Small boats floating on and under a layer of levitating liquid. Credit: Emmanuel Fort, Author provided Here on Earth, everything is subject to gravity—it makes objects fall to the ground and rivers flow from higher ground to the sea. We know what would happen without it, thanks to images of astronauts floating around their...
Hexbyte Glen Cove Researchers observe what could be the first hints of dark bosons
Measuring small shifts in transition frequencies in different isotopes of the same atom can probe for the existence of a hypothetical dark matter particle, ϕ, which mediates an interaction between neutrons and electrons. Credit: Counts et al. Extremely light and weakly interacting particles may play a crucial role in cosmology and in the ongoing...
Hexbyte Glen Cove Medicine-carriers made from human cells can cure lung infections
Lung tissue. Credit: Rutgers University Scientists used human white blood cell membranes to carry two drugs, an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory, directly to infected lungs in mice. The nano-sized drug delivery method developed at Washington State University successfully treated both the bacterial growth and inflammation in the mice's lungs. The study, recently published in...