Thursday, January 14, 2010

MIT Satellite Could Trounce Kepler Telescope, Finding Thousands Of Exoplanets In Just Two Years

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MIT's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) MIT From Popular Science: The Kepler Space Telescope made headlines last week when ...

The Third & The Seventh: Unbelievable CG Video

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The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo . From Gawker.TV: Alex Roman's The Third & The Seventh is a montage of enchan...

'Longevity Gene' Helps Prevent Memory Decline And Dementia

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Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that a "longevity gene" helps to slow age-relat...

Haiti Earthquake Science: What Caused The Disaster

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From The Live Science: The major earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday may have shocked a region unaccustomed to such temblors, but the devas...

Google Is Not The Only Internet Site Attacked By China

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Google China Cyberattack Part Of Spy Campaign -- MSNBC/Washington Post Dozens of companies, human rights groups targeted in sophisticated st...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

CES 2010: Que Touchcreen E-Reader Packs in Features

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Google Threatens To Pull Out Of China

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From The Telegraph: Google, the internet search engine, has said it is ready to close down its business and quit China because of the countr...

Life On Mars, Continued

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This photomicrograph focuses on a large "biomorph" from a Mars meteorite fragment known as Nakhla e4150ed. Its chemical spectrum a...

Social Networking Promises A New Era Of Watching TV With Friends

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TV Family "Ah, the times we had in 2010" From Popular Science: Someone wants to bring back the golden era of TV, when entire famil...

How Winning Can Mean Losing In Poker And Life

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Karen Bleier / AFP / Getty From Time Magazine: You can learn a lot about gambling if you're willing to analyze 27 million hands of onlin...

OLED Could Be Apple Tablet’s Secret Solution For E-Reading

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From Gadget Lab: An OLED display would be a pricey, but perfect, screen for e-book reading on a tablet, like the one Apple is rumored to be ...

Nasa Photographs 'Trees' On Mars

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The "trees" are really trails of debris caused by landslides as ice melts in Mars's spring Photo: NASA From The Telegraph: A...

Wind Chill Blows: It's Time To Get Rid Of A Meaningless Number.

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From Slate: Wind chill dropped as low as 52 below zero in parts of the Midwest on Thursday, with similar conditions expected for early Frida...

No Needle In A Haystack Too Small For DARPA's Dream Goggles

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Future Goggles Will DARPA's magic 3D goggles improve on this night vision spec? U.S. Army From Popular Science: Defense agency demands...

Bering Strait's Ups And Downs Alter Climate

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Gatekeeper. The Bering Strait seems to regulate sea level during ice ages. Credit: NASA/GSFC/JPL/MISR team From Science Now: The Bering Str...

Women With Full Lips 'Look Younger'

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Marilyn Monroe had full lips From The Telegraph: Women who have plump full lips look younger than their years, scientists have said. Devotee...

NASA Feels 'Plutonium Pinch' Earlier Than Expected

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Plutonium-238's high heat-production rate and 89-year half-life makes it a good power source for long space missions (Image: US Departme...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

'Wet' Computing Systems To Boost Processing Power

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Sketch of artificial wet neuronal networks. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Southampton) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Jan. 1...

Doomsday Clock To Change This Week

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DOOMSDAY CLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT from TurnBackTheClock.org on Vimeo . From Live Science: The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set t...

Dark Matter 'Beach Ball' Unveiled

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Image: The trail of matter left by an orbiting galaxy hints at the dark matter's shape From The BBC: The giant halo of dark matter that...