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A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed stronger, more flexible networks that helped them survive environmental shocks. Neanderthals had connections too, but they were more fragile and regionallyContinue Reading

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The Linux Vendor Firmware Service, or LVFS, is what makes firmware updates on Linux not a nightmare. Hardware vendors upload their firmware directly to it, and users get those updates delivered through fwupd and tools like GNOME Software. According to official estimates, the project has shipped over 140 million updatesContinue Reading

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Earth Science (SG) Publications Archive – Menu Bar Home Publications Archive (2019-1989) Ames Earth Science Publications NASA’s Ames Research Center Publications Archive (1989–2019) offers a comprehensive record of three decades of scientific and technical contributions. This curated collection of peer-reviewed studies, reports, and technical papers documents Ames scientists’ work inContinue Reading

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This image of a special object, dubbed the “X-ray dot,” represents a discovery from Chandra that could help explain the nature of a mysterious class of sources in the early Universe. The optical and infrared image from Hubble show the region around the X-ray dot, while the Chandra X-ray imageContinue Reading