Wednesday, April 14, 2010

U.S. Military Supply of Rare Earth Elements Not Secure

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From Live Science: U.S. military technologies such as guided bombs and night vision rely heavily upon rare earth elements supplied by China,...

Polluted Old Stars Suggest Earth-like Worlds May Be Common

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From Space.com: Earth-like planets should be a fairly common feature of other solar systems in our galaxy, a new study of stellar senior cit...

Mysterious Radio Waves Emitted From Nearby Galaxy

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Something in there is producing an unusually regular radio signal (Image: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA) From New Scientist: There is something stran...

First Man On The Moon Neil Armstrong Blasts Obama's Space Plans

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Neil Armstrong Blasts Obama’s ‘Devastating’ Nasa Cuts -- Times Online Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, has launched an unprecedent...

iPad International Launch Delayed As Apple Blames 'Runaway' Demand

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Apple's iPad shipped more than half a million units in its first week, the company says. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images From T...

New LOFAR Telescope Network Probes Universe's Low-Frequency Radiation To Look For Oldest Regions And Alien Civilizations

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LOFAR's View of The Super Massive Black Hole In The 3C61.1 Galaxy via Alpha Galileo From The Telegraph: Until recently, r...

The Woman Photographer Who Braves Temperatures Of MINUS 20 To Take Stunning Pictures Of Northern Lights

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Linda Drake uses a variety of different camera exposure times to photograph the spectacular lights From The Daily Mail: A photographer has c...

'Climategate' Panel Set To Report

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From The BBC: The second of three reviews into hacked climate e-mails from the University of East Anglia (UEA) is set to be released later. ...

Twitter To Have Paid Tweets Show Up In Searches

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From ABC News: Twitter introduces tweets paid for by advertisers, to show up first in search results. Twitter announced Tuesday that it is i...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Inexpensive Highly Efficient Solar Cells Possible

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Researchers have come up with solutions for two problems that, for the last twenty years, have been hampering the development of efficient a...

One Mystery of Sandstorm Lightning Explained

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From Live Science: Sandstorms can generate spectacular lightning displays, but how they do so is a mystery. By unlocking the secrets of how ...

Twitter Reveals Business Model

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From Technology Review: "Promoted Tweets" will bring ads into the stream of real-time conversation. At long last, Twitter has anno...

The Apollo Hoax Theories

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Neil Armstrong/Keystone/Getty Images From The Independent: It is 40 years since the drama of the Apollo 13 mission turned an aborted mission...

Meet The New Head Of DARPA

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LEADER Regina Dugan of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Michael Temchine for The New York Times New Force Behind Agency of Won...

Copyright Violation Alert Ransomware In The Wild

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From ZNET: A currently ongoing ransomware campaign is using a novel approach to extort money from end users whose PCs have been locked down...

Can Mozilla Be Bigger Than Facebook?

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From CNET: Mozilla has made a name for itself by taking on Microsoft Internet Explorer in the browser market, claiming as much as 30 percent...

Pluto Joined By Up To 50 More Dwarf Planets

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Comparative sizes of four dwarf planets, which may be joined by up to 50 more objects. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope From Cosmos: SYDNEY: T...

Does Stress Feed Cancer?

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PUSHING IT: Stress is linked indirectly to the immune system's anti-tumor defenses, but it can also affect anoikis--a type of cell death...

Astronauts Take 3rd, Final Spacewalk; Valve Stuck

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From ABC News: Astronauts take 3rd, final spacewalk to finish installing tank; stuck valve threatens cooling. A pair of spacewalking astrona...

40 Yard Dash: Average Dude Vs Pro Athlete

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Video from the NFL Combine showing just how fast prospective NFL players can run compared to normal people. It is almost unbelievable how qu...