Thursday, September 24, 2009

Water Found On The Moon

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How So Much Water? Some Ideas... A stream of charged hydrogen ions carried from the sun by the solar wind. One possible scenario to explain ...

The Coming Ebook Reader Flood

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The Microsoft Courier leads the way in the coming onslaught of ebook readers. (Screen shot from YouTube) From Christian Science Monitor: The...

Michael Faraday Voted Britain's Greatest Inventor

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Faraday finished ahead of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and William Caxton From The Telegraph: Michael Faraday, the scientist whose discoveries le...

India’s Lunar Mission Finds Evidence Of Water On The Moon

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From The Independent: Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India’s first lunar mission fo...

Satellite To Begin Gravity Quest

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From The BBC: A European spacecraft will begin its quest this week to make the most detailed global map of the Earth's gravity field. Th...

Wasted Space: U.S. Military Looking For Ideas On How To Curb The Threat Of Orbiting Junk

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CLOUD OF CLUTTER: A visualization of the population of tracked objects, primarily debris, in low Earth orbit. The objects are not scaled wit...

Drinking Alcohol May Make Head Injuries Less Harmful

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Alcohol: Having a little alcohol in your blood could be a life-saver From Popular Science: Patients with alcohol in their blood are less li...

Asteroid Attack: Putting Earth's Defences To The Test

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Are we prepared for an asteroid strike? (Image: Don Davis/NASA) From The New Scientist: IT LOOKS inconsequential enough, the faint little sp...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Mathematicians Solve 'Trillion Triangle' Problem

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The 3-4-5 triangle has area 6. (Credit: Image courtesy of American Institute of Mathematics) From Science Daily: Mathematicians from North ...

Powerful Ideas: River Turbines Could Electrify New York City

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An NJIT architecture professor with an architecture student has designed a network of modular floating docks to harness clean energy for New...

Baidu CEO Touts Growth Of China's Search Engine

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Photo: Baidu CEO Robin Li advised Stanford students to make sure they understand the Chinese market if they want to do business there. (Cre...

Smoking Bans May Reduce Heart Attacks By More Than A Third

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Smoking bans were introduced in pubs and other public places in England and Wales in 2007. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA From The Guardian: Th...

Pictured: Giant Squid Accidentally Caught In Gulf of Mexico

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Researchers pose with the 19.5-foot creature after netting it in July From The Daily Mail: This group of American scientists were studying t...

Seismic Bangs 'Block' Whale Calls

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From The BBC: Scientists have turned up new evidence showing that ocean noise can affect the communication of whales. Studying blue whales o...

Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late

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Matt Collins From Scientific American: Long-standing liability issues leave us unprepared for a pandemic. As health care workers in the U.S....

Fresh From Skunkworks, Hints of Microsoft's Own Secret Tablet

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Microsoft's Courier From Popular Science: While drool over Apple's tablet is starting to accumulate in unsightly lakes and ponds acr...

Google's Sidewiki Lets People Post Comments About Web Pages

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From PC World: Google has launched a new feature in its Toolbar product that opens up a browser sidebar in Firefox and Internet Explorer to ...

7 Billion And Counting

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From New Scientist: Overpopulation is often singled out as the planet's root problem. If only it were that simple. Leading thinkers on p...

Arctic Ice To Last Decades Longer Than Thought?

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A polar bear navigates ice floes in Baffin Bay in the Canadian Arctic on July 10, 2008. This year's cooler summer means that the Arctic ...

Explaining Why Pruning Encourages Plants To Thrive

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New research helps explain why pruning encourages plants to thrive. (Credit: iStockphoto/Matthew Scherf) From Science Daily: Scientists hav...