Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Farm Aid From Space

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A Kenyan Masai farmer stands next to his three cows exhausted by lack of nutrition near Kajiado, south of Nairobi. A NOAA environmental sate...

Ancient DNA Teased From Fossil Eggshells

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Fragments of ancient moa eggshells. Eggshells are surprisingly good at protecting ancient DNA, and are often found at archaeological sites. ...

Scientists Discover 'Catastrophic Event' Behind The Halt Of Star Birth in Early Galaxy Formation

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Artist’s representation showing outflow from a supermassive black hole inside the middle of a galaxy. (Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) From Scien...

Effort To Map Human Brain Faces Complex Challenges

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The wiring diagram of connections between neurons and the interscutularis muscle of a mouse ear. Credit: Lu et al., 2009 PLoS Biology: The I...

Obama's Plans For NASA Changes Met With Harsh Criticism

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From Washington Post: Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 1...

E-Books Are Largest Category In App Store

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From Mac World: Steve Jobs once dismissed the Kindle by declaring that “people don’t read anymore.” That may or may not be true, but either ...

Cryptographers Voice Their Concerns On The Security Of Cloud Computing

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Cryptographers Warn About Security Dangers in the Cloud at RSA -- Redmond Magazine (Microsoft IT Community News) Researcher says read the fi...

US Still Responsible For Most CO2 Emissions

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From New Scientist: Europeans import nearly twice as much carbon dioxide per head as US citizens – but the US still holds the dubious distin...

Google Tests TV Search Service

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From The Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to peopl...

Super-Small Microphone Detects Motion Of Air Particles To Pinpoint Gunfire In Battle

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The Microflown via Dvice From Popular Science: Wait, don't call it a microphone -- it's an acoustic vecto...

Cruise-Ship Disaster: How Do 'Rogue Waves' Work?

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From Time Magazine: It was like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie. On March 3, a sudden wall of water hit a cruise ship sailing in...

Decision-Makers Betrayed By Their Wide Eyes

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Dither no more (Image: Adam Hart-Davis/SPL) From New Scientist: WHY can't teachers keep a secret? Because their pupils give them away. I...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Most Extreme White Dwarf Binary System Found With Orbit Of Just Five Minutes

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Graphic of HM Cancri. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Warwick) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Mar. 9, 2010) — An international ...

Even A 3-Year-Old Understands The Power Of Advertising

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From Live Science: Having the "right" brand of jeans or the latest gadget isn't just an annoying trait of teenagers (not to me...

How To Save And Share Ridiculously Large Files

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From CNET: A few years ago it was a big deal to find a place that would let you share 1 gigabyte of files. Things change, though. Bandwidth ...

Drinking Alcohol Could Help Women Stay Slim

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The best drink for keeping the pounds off was red wine, but all four types of tipple included in the study -- red or white wine, beer and sp...

Grrr… What's 'Step Away From The Bone' In Dog?

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From The New Scientist: The canine phrase book has collected its first entries. Dogs understand the meaning of different growls, from a rumb...

Could The Mono Lake Arsenic Prove There Is A Shadow Biosphere?

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California, USA --- Rock Formations in Mono Lake. (Micha Pawlitzki/Corbis) From Times Online: Do alien life forms exist in a Californian lak...

A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light

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Pushing the Limits of Physics Exceeding the speed of light opens one up to all kinds of theoretical problems, but two Austrian researchers ...

How Safe Is Your Cell Phone?

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Illustration by Jane Hong for TIME From Time Magazine: It takes a little extra work to get in touch with Andrea Boland. The Maine state repr...