Thursday, January 28, 2010

No Moon Trips: Obama's Space Vision A 'Paradigm Shift'

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From Space.com: President Obama's plan for America's space program, according to early reports, represents a fundamental shift for h...

What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies?

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From Popular Mechanics: It has been reported that the president's budget may not include any funds for the Constellation program, NASA...

Last Neanderthals In Europe Died Out 37,000 Years Ago

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Teeth from Pego do Diabo, Portugal (Credit: Photo by courtesy of PLoS ONE) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Jan. 27, 2010) — The paper, by...

Levitating Magnet Brings Nuclear Fusion Closer To Reality

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The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) reactor is housed inside a 16-foot-diameter steel structure in a building on the MIT campus that also ...

Setting Up A Tent City

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People gather in a makeshift tent city across from the ruined presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. (Angela Naus/CBC) From The CBC: On Oct....

Apple iPad Hands On

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Apple iPad Hands On from PopSci.com on Vimeo . From Popular Science: Our complete impressions and analysis of Apple's new tablet are h...

New Animations Take You Flying Over Mars

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From Wired Science: A space-loving animator has created stunning flyovers of Mars from data captured by NASA’s HiRISE imager, which is mount...

Has Twitter Peaked? New Web Figures Show Decline In Number Of Users Since The Summer

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From The Daily Times: It has revolutionalised social networking and brought the thoughts of our favourite celebrities - no matter how trivia...

Neuron Breakthrough Offers Hope On Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s

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From Times Online: Neurons have been created directly from skin cells for the first time, in a remarkable study that suggests that our biolo...

NASA Sets Feb. Launch Date For Shuttle Endeavour

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From ABC News: NASA sets Feb. 7 launch date for shuttle Endeavour, delivering new space station room. NASA has set an early February launch ...

Shoes May Have Changed How We Run

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From The BBC: Wearing cushioned running shoes may have changed the way in which many of us run, new research suggests. Using slow-motion foo...

3-D Glasses Get A Makeover

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The Bocko family of Bernardston, Mass., tried watching "The Polar Express" on Christmas Day with paper 3-D glasses but gave up par...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Single Photons Observed At Seemingly Faster-Than-Light Speeds

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At the boundaries between layers, the photon creates waves interfering with each other, affecting its transit time. (Credit: JQI) From Scien...

New Theory of Primate Origins Sparks Controversy

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From Live Science: The evolution of the distant ancestors of humans and other primates may have been driven by dramatic volcanic eruptions a...

Video: Boeing's Truck-Mounted Laser Neatly Picks Off 50 IEDs In A Row

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From Popular Science: Boeing's laser weapons have already shown the power to blast aerial drones from the sky, but may find even more im...

India Plans Manned Space Mission In 2016

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From Breitbart/AFP: India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United ...

Blonde Women Born To Be Warrior Princesses

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Photo: Blondes, such as the actress Emilia Fox, are used to having their own way, the study says From Times Online: IT really is a case of ...

Scientists In Stolen E-Mail Scandal Hid Climate Data

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Photo: Professor Phil Jones, the unit's director, stood down while the inquiry took place. (University of East Anglia) From Times Onlin...

No Facebook IPO In 2010

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From CBS News: Two Major Investors in Facebook Nix Possibility of Public Offering in 2010. After years of Facebook executives and investors ...

'Farthest' Star-Mass Black Hole

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An artist's impression of the black hole pulling gas off its companion From The BBC: Astronomers have spied a star-sized black hole much...