Saturday, November 15, 2008

World's Fastest Scientific Supercomputer

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From Knoxnews: OAK RIDGE - Oak Ridge National Laboratory had promised a breakthrough performance from its newly arrived Cray XT5 supercomput...

Telcos: Don't Mess Up The Internet With Regulation

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From CNET News: WASHINGTON--Representatives from industry, government, and advocacy groups agreed on Thursday that the Internet needs to be ...

Stone Age Temple May Be Birthplace of Civilization

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One of the T-shaped monoliths in Gobekli Tepe, this one bearing a relief of a fox. Wikimedia Commons From FOX News: It's more than twice...

Unhappy People Watch TV, Happy People Read/Socialize, Says Study

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From E! Science News: A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people wh...

Artificial Diamonds - Now Available in Extra Large

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From The New Scientist: Diamonds are a girl's best friend, they say - and soon they could be every girl's best friend. A team in the...

CO2 May Prevent Next Ice Age: Study

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The researchers warn their finding is not an argument in favour of global warming (Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visua...

Mysterious Microbe May Play Important Role In Ocean Ecology

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These unidentified cyanobacteria were collected in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. (Credit: Photo by Rachel Foster) From Science Daily: Scien...

Grandma Is Better Babysitter Than Mom

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From Live Science: Common wisdom might suggest that because of their age, grandmothers are inappropriate caretakers for infants and children...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Into Night Sky

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From Yahoo News/AP: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into the night sky Friday, bound for the inte...

The Consequence Of A Failed Electricity Policy

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(Photo from Van Ness Feldman ) Get Ready For Rolling Brownouts And Huge Hikes In Electricity Prices -- Q and O Forbes warns us : If you thi...

A New Ice Age?

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In Greenland, a caribou skeleton lies before the snout of a glacier. Can humans prevent the ice sheets from advancing? (Credit: Andrew C. Re...

Mystery Solved: How Bleach Kills Germs

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Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Associate Professor Ursula Jakob (L) and Jeannette Winter, Ph.D. in an undated photo courtesy...

Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe Lands On Moon

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Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on the moon surface (Times Now) From Times Of India: BANGALORE: India marked its presence on Moon on Frida...

140 Years Of UFO Sightings - Part I

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From The Telegraph: One of the earliest photographs of an unidentified flying object, this picture was taken somewhere in the United States ...

Which Came First? Eggs Before Chickens, Scientists Now Say

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Frrm Live Science: A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg, two paleontologis...

Indonesia's New Tsunami Warning System

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The December 2004 Indonesian earthquake caused a massive tsunami to wash over 10 countries in South Asia and East Africa. This pair of image...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Can a Bone-Marrow Transplant Halt HIV?

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Bone-marrow cell MedicalRF.com / Getty From Time Magazine: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that res...

The Big Question: What Is Nanotechnology, And Do We Put The World At Risk By Adopting It?

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From The Independent: Why are we asking this question now? The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has just published a report on no...

Tech Puts JFK Conspiracy Theories to Rest

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The Motorcade President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, riding in a motorcade with Texas Governor John Connally and wife ...

How Studying DNA From Ancient Animals Helps Humans

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From Christian Science Monitor: While on the campaign trail this fall, Senator John McCain would laugh at government-funded research on the ...