Simian virus 40 (SV40) is a monkey virus that was administered to human populations by contaminated vaccines which were produced in SV40 naturally infected monkey cells.Recent molecular biology and epidemiological studies suggest that SV40 may be contagiously ... | Continue reading
Learn how to write Python comments that are clean, concise, and useful. Quickly get up to speed on what the best practices are, which types of comments it's best to avoid, and how you can practice writing cleaner comments. | Continue reading
Another recipe for leftover Halloween pumpkins! Anyone else still got lots to get through? I always end up buying a lot of pumpkins for decor or using in photos and then eat nothing but pumpkin for November. Which I don’t have any complaints about. Especially when it involves lot … | Continue reading
All November, we're posting a series of serverless challenges. Do the challenge, tweet it out, and you might get swag! | Continue reading
You passed all interviews and tests for a cool company — Congrats! The recruiter just gave you a call saying they were very impressed with… | Continue reading
Adventure photographer Sebastian Copeland has spent more than a decade exploring the planet’s polar regions. Partly that’s because he’s a traveler, climber, and mountaineer by nature, but also because he hopes to share the fragility of these places with the vast majority of peopl … | Continue reading
Why do some people react more strongly than others when faced with the unknown? Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics, headed by Professor Carmen Sandi, have set out to learn more with a new virtual reality program. Their system evaluates how users' personality … | Continue reading
Starring Salma, Jared, Dakota, and a defiant Zoe Kravitz. | Continue reading
A mouse study suggests most neurons in the intestines die every two weeks. An imbalance in the number of neurons could lead to gut diseases or even Parkinson’s | Continue reading
The privatisation of Britain’s railways has cost the taxpayer £5 billion per year and driven up fares by 20 per cent, according to analysis released to mark the 25th anniversary of the legislation that put | Continue reading
The Supreme Court has ended the court fight over repealed Obama-era "net neutrality" rules that required internet providers to treat all online traffic equally. | Continue reading
Serverless Linear Algebra | Continue reading
Using deep learning image classification models to detect programming languages… with surprising accuracy. | Continue reading
"Cities that claim to promote inclusion cannot just relegate the non-rich to economically segregated parts of town." | Continue reading
Research mapping the evolution of mosquitos against rising CO2 levels over millions of years, has suggested that more mosquito-related diseases could have consequences for future human health, as the climate continues to change. | Continue reading
When faced with a difficult problem, give your people an opportunity to assist. Ask for their thoughts or recommendations. | Continue reading
These two maps by Esri UK show the parts of the UK that voted to leave the EU and which parts voted to remain.See also the NY | Continue reading
What do Australians love more than food? Wasting it. Here's how we can change. | Continue reading
It's settled. A new study has found out what the special something is that makes a perfect pizza. | Continue reading
Verizon is undergoing a significant restructuring under new CEO Hans Vestberg, including its dominant wireless division, as it prepares to roll out its 5G technology. | Continue reading
The "Iffy Quotient" has been downright steady leading up to tomorrow's midterm elections, and Facebook deserves some credit for it. | Continue reading
"High five" in Java. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. | Continue reading
A boardroom battle and more alleged management issues have raised new questions about HQ’s future. | Continue reading
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's new president, will make many decisions during his four-year term, from combating violence to stimulating a stagnant economy. | Continue reading
Carrier giant Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) announced plans to reorganize its business segments to just three — Consumer, Business and Verizon Media Group/Oath — to focus better on its customers. | Continue reading
Get the most knowledge and fun out of the best cloud conference of the year! It’s officially our 25 days countdown to the 7th annual AWS re:Invent convention held November 26-30 in Vegas. We know, there are tons of events before AWS. Events like Summer ‘vacay’ loaded with meetups … | Continue reading
Climate scientists are working hard to keep the apocalypse relevant | Continue reading
VTT and Dyadic International, Inc. today announced that VTT scientists will present the excellent results in their collaboration over the past two years at two international conferences: AAPS PharmSci on November 7th in Washington, D.C., and PEGS Europe on November 14th in Lisbon … | Continue reading
Alcohols play a pivotal role in organic synthesis because they are ubiquitous and can be used in a variety of well-established transformations. However, in C-C bond formation reactions, despite being central to organic synthesis, alcohols are mostly employed in an indirect fashio … | Continue reading
This is the second article in a series on how the best Product Owners manage to get on top of their refinement process. The insights come from interviews and close collaboration with ~150 product… | Continue reading
All over the world, some truly groundbreaking telescopes are being built that will usher in a new age of astronomy. Sites include the mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Australia, South Africa, southwestern China, and the Atacama Desert – a remote plateau in the Chilean Andes. In t … | Continue reading
Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump. But all those Trump bots were far less effective at shifting people's opinions than the smaller proportion of bots backing Hillary Clin … | Continue reading
In a recent study conducted by Hongri Gong and colleagues, a respiratory supercomplex was isolated from the bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis, and its structure was visualized at a resolution of 3.5 Å using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). The bacterium is a close relative to … | Continue reading
gqlgen is the best way to build a GraphQL server in Go and possibly even any language. This article looks at why and how we developed it. | Continue reading
Why you must make code open, making code open from the start and how to code in the open. | Continue reading
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If there was ever a time when critical thinking was a moral imperative, and credulity a calamitous sin, it is now | Continue reading
A team of researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology has developed a silk protein-based gel that they claim allows for skin healing without scarring. In their paper published in the journal Biomaterials Science, the group describes their gel and how well it work … | Continue reading
The goal of the Hitchhiker tree is to wed three things: the query performance of a B+ tree, the write performance of an append-only log, and convenience of a functional, persistent data structure. | Continue reading
It would have sounded surreal a few years ago, but Vancouver is now a world leader in virtual reality and augmented reality. | Continue reading
Recently I've been trying new photo editors. There are a lot of them out there at this point; the popular one is Lightroom from Adobe. It's the standard, if there is a standard. It's now cloud-based and is called Lightroom... | Continue reading
Scientists from Germany's Kiel University and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have used data from the European Space Agency (ESA), Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission to unveil key geological features of the Earth's lithosphere – the rigid oute … | Continue reading