Apart from filling the gap in space environment observation, astronomers are stunned over the new discovery of a field of methane ice craters on Pluto’s surface by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. According to a report by Cosmos, NASA scientists are continuing to receive images and data from the New Horizons spacecraft, months after the probe departed the Plutonian system. The newest discovery is identifying of an area on Pluto covered with “halo” craters, from the latest intriguing batch of photos shows.
The current generation of birds is said to be the evolutionary successor of the birdlike dinosaurs, but the succession was nearly not to be. A new study has pointed that despite the mass extinction of dinosaurs, seeds have helped the birds to survive the extinction.
NASA scientists have been receiving some incredible information about Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft, but the Dwarf planet isn’t the only thing it’s studying. According to the recent press release by NASA, scientists recently noted that the spacecraft’s vantage point is ideal for studying Solar Wind, and it’s already studying it.
As the Samsung Galaxy 7 handset is out in the market, rumors are flooded throughout the internet on upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 6. As nothing is official yet, it is more meaningful to consider these rumors as mere wish lists. However, from the past, we can say that these rumor lists or wish list plays an important role in the upcoming releases because these wish lists are nothing but in general customer’s expectations, which the companies always takes note of.
Recently, Mojang has released a new strategy game on Steam “Crown and Council” and it’s totally free of cost to download the game. The game has been developed by Henrik Pettersson, an artist in Mojang community. The game can be downloaded and installed on any device, that comes with 1GB of RAM and with 300MB of free space on the device.
CRISPR, a gene-editing technique has been named as 2015’s breakthrough of the year by US journal Science on Thursday. The gene-editing technique helps scientists to edit the genome with accuracy, and can also be used for curing genetic diseases.
There is good news as well as a bad news with respect to Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) HoloLens. The much talked about Virtual Reality Headset will be available for a demonstration at the company’s store in New York. This was the good news. The bad news is that the public demonstration will only be available for the developers and not for the consumers.
Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has brought a major improvement to the events feature, allowing the user to specify the date if they are looking to party or attend an event. The social networking site has also brought in a new update for iOS that streamlines event invitations, making it faster and easier.
As an open source operating system, Linux is considered much more secure than other OS’s like Windows or Mac OS. But researchers at the Polytechnic University of Valencia’s Cyber Security Group have just found a major vulnerability in Linux. According to the researchers, you can hack a Linux system by just hitting the backspace key on the keyboard 28 times.
According to the recent study, it has been shown that certain drugs that increase the concentration of GABA in the brain can in turn be used to treat autism. To be true, if the researchers can work out with this, it will be an exceptional breakthrough in the field of medical science.
