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Happy to share the latest manuscript from our lab, in which we propose that eukaryotes evolved from a genomic chimera of Asgard archaea and giant viruses.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
This is a controversial topic, but we believe we have strong evidence to suggest a critical viral role in eukaryogenesis.
#viruses #protists #eukaryotes #evolution #TreeOfLIfe #archaea
Chimeric Origin of Eukaryotes from Asgard Archaea and Ancestral Giant Viruses
The details surrounding the evolution of complex cells remain some of the most enduring mysteries in biology.bioRxiv
Explore the Universe with the First E-Book from NASA’s Fermi - NASA Science
To commemorate a milestone anniversary for NASA’s Fermi spacecraft, the mission team has published an e-book called “Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
Slimbook reveal the upgraded Slimbook Fedora 2 with 14" and 16" models gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/slim…
Slimbook reveal the upgraded Slimbook Fedora 2 with 14" and 16" models
Slimbook and Fedora have teamed up again for a refresh of their Slimbook Fedora laptop with a second edition now available.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Fedora Linux 40 is officially out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/fedo…
Fedora Linux 40 is officially out now
Ready for some more upgrades? Today Fedora Linux 40 has now been officially released bringing with it big upgrades with GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6 and lots more.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Trackline Express is a quirky, funny and unique journey gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/trac…
#TracklineExpress #IndieGame #Linux
Trackline Express is a quirky, funny and unique journey
Trackline Express is a game all about getting your train across an unforgiving desert, and it's a whole lot of fun coming from Bubblebird Studio who also made the cute Haven Park.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Pushing the Limits of Sub-Kilowatt Electric Propulsion Technology to Enable Planetary Exploration and Commercial Mission Concepts - NASA Science
NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Celebrates 34th Anniversary with a Look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula - NASA Science
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in t…science.nasa.gov
East Coast quakes are felt farther than West Coast ones. Here’s why.
Across the subterranean United States, not all rocks were created equally.Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
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Shoot through a mass of alien cells in Swarm Grinder 1.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/shoo…
Shoot through a mass of alien cells in Swarm Grinder 1.0 out now
Swarm Grinder is a repeatable action roguelite where you control a little mech, as you battle your way through a big swarm of cells that spawn various types of enemies. An interesting one if you enjoy games like Vampire Survivors.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Dudes thinking big thoughts: Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and the lure of the rabbit hole
After B-list careers in their primary professions, these men have found their callings in the earbuds of the young.America Magazine
Khronos Group seeking proposals for paid work to improve OpenXR for Godot Engine gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/khro…
#GodotEngine #Godot #OpenXR #OpenSource
Khronos Group seeking proposals for paid work to improve OpenXR for Godot Engine
The Khronos Group, the overseers of many open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more are currently looking to pay someone to improve OpenXR in Godot Engine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Rhythm-shooter roguelite KILLBEAT sounds like a real blast gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/rhyt…
Rhythm-shooter roguelite KILLBEAT sounds like a real blast
You don't see many roguelites like this! KILLBEAT blends musical rhythm shooting with fast-paced action to create something that looks rather fun.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2024 April 23 – Contrail Shadow X
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Tracker Beeper - Bert Hubert's writings
A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits an…Bert Hubert's writings
Steam Deck Verified highlights for April 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/stea…
Steam Deck Verified highlights for April 2024
Here's another wonderful selection of games to add to your Steam Deck, after looking over what has been recently Steam Deck Verified to give you hopefully the best experience.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve tweak 4K screen scaling on Linux, plus more Remote Play fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/valv…
Valve tweak 4K screen scaling on Linux, plus more Remote Play fixes
A fresh Desktop Steam Client Beta has been released, and it sounds like a useful one for those of you who do Remote Play.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SteamOS 3.5.19 Preview out for Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/stea…
SteamOS 3.5.19 Preview out for Steam Deck
Valve released another small SteamOS Preview update for Steam Deck, along with an additional Steam Deck Client Beta update.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Base Your Linux Opinions On Reality
It's easy to get caught up in arguments about Linux and stop basing your opinion on what is really happening, this is never useful and should always strive t...YouTube
Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist.www.phoronix.com
Contrail Shadow X
Image Credit & Copyright: Fatih Ekmen
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240423.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2024 April 23 – Contrail Shadow X
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
🚀 Stay tuned: Nextcloud Hub 8 will be launched tomorrow @ 2 PM CEST in an online event.
Register now to participate in the live presentation and be among the first to experience it!
Nextcloud Hub 8 launch event
Nextcloud Hub 8 will be launched on April 24th in an online event. Register now to participate in the live prentation and be among the first to experience it!Nextcloud
(even if I host and use daily a Nextcloud instance since 2017)
Nextcloud Hub 24 is here - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Hub 24 introduces user data migration, automatic file locking and dozens of other features.Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
Feels like the right day to repost this quilt
(In case you didn’t hear yet, #NASA fixed the broken #Voyager I — jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyage…)
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
I’ll be speaking at #AMRO24 in Linz, Austria on May 8! Come along to hear me talk about how the tech industry is much more overtly embracing government and military to protect itself.
More info here: art-meets.radical-openness.org…
Long Ago GNOME Was A GNU Project!?!?
You may have heard that GNOME is an acronym and at one point that as certainly true but that can't be said any longer however when it was the GNU Object Mode...YouTube
ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon reshared this.
Sols 4161-4163: Double Contact Science - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, April 19, 2024 Curiosity has a three-sol weekend plan coming up as it makes progress along the edge of upper Gediz Vallis ridge.science.nasa.gov
This looks fascinating. I will leave it here for reading later.
Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong
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NASA Invites Media to Learn About New Tech Mission Powered by the Sun - NASA
A new NASA mission is testing a new way to navigate our solar system by hoisting its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power ofRachel Hoover (NASA)
Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.
Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.
We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.
bbc.com/news/science-environme…
E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022
Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.By Victoria Gill (BBC News)
“The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning”
<new line>
“science data again.”
Just had a brief moment there.
NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners - NASA
NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place inNASA
NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners - NASA
NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place inNASA
Our Beautiful Water World - NASA
This Jan. 30, 2012 image of Earth was created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPPNASA
NASA Nurtures Promising Tech Ideas from Small Businesses - NASA
New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on MondayNASA
The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.
Building ActivityPub
Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the world’s largest publishing network.Building ActivityPub
Why is Methane Seeping on Mars? NASA Scientists Have New Ideas - NASA Science
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth.science.nasa.gov
Russian Who Bankrolled Trump’s Truth Social Set Up Dodgy Sex Pill Sites
So Postolnikov bankrolled Trump AND DeSantis among other influence games
#RussianSmokingFinancialGun #RussianInfluencers #TrumpMoneyGuy #DeSantisMoneyGuy #FollowTheMoney
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in reply to Frank Aylward • • •As bizarre as this all sounds, I believe we have strong phylogenetic evidence supporting this model. Importantly, this model has also been proposed before by Phil Bell based on first principles or eukaryotic organization and similarities between the nucleus and virus factories formed by viruses during infection
doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.858…
naturepoker
in reply to Frank Aylward • • •Albert Cardona
in reply to Frank Aylward • • •Frank Aylward
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •The origin of viruses and their possible roles in major evolutionary transitions - PubMed
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