Saturday, April 24, 2010

Don’t Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

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Hawking has depicted what kinds of alien could be out there From Times Online: THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at l...

A Counter Argument That Our Obesity Epidemic Is Not A Threat To National Security

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From Slate: The obesity epidemic has nothing to do with national security. " My name's Dewey Oxberger ; my friends call me 'Ox...

Humans Cannot Multitask (Even Women)

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The research showed that humans prefer a simple choice of two options, rather than three or more. ALAMY From The Independent: Study finds t...

Energy Research Spending Seen As Chump Change

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From Future Pundit: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former Dupont CEO Chad Holliday say we spend too little on energy R&D and energy...

Volcanic Eruption In Eyjafjallajökull And Fimmvörðuháls In Iceland 2010 (Pics from Flickr)

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The Gallery of pictures is here .

Volcanic Ash Cloud: Stunning Northern Lights Images Captured Over Iceland

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The Northern Lights are seen through a valley leading away from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano Photo: REUTERS From The Telegraph: A...

Facebook Wants To Control The Web, Like It Or Not

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From InfoWorld: Facebook wants to dictate how you log in and share content across the Web. Should you let them? Cringely says nyet. Mark Zuc...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Experimental Explanation Of Supercooling: Why Water Does Not Freeze In The Clouds

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Droplet of a gold-silicon liquid alloy on a silicon (111) surface. Pentagonal clusters formed at the interface exhibit a denser structure co...

Flying Car Could Transform Warfare

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From Live Science: The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has cleared the Transformer (TX) program for takeoff. If it flies, by 2015 U...

Climate Scientist Sues Newspaper For 'Poisoning' Global Warming Debate

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Andrew Weaver with the IPCC's 2007 report on which he was a lead author. Photograph: Ray Smith. From The Guardian: Climate modeller Andr...

IPad’s Rivals Are On The March

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From Times Online: As Apple prepares to unleash the iPad in Britain, its rivals are preparing their fightback, rushing to create and release...

Obama’s NASA Blueprint Is Challenged In Congress

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From The New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama may have hoped that a speech a week ago at the Kennedy Space Center would sway skeptic...

Maxed Out: How Long Can You Go Without Sleep?

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Randy Gardner went without sleep for 11 days (Image: Don Cravens/Getty) From New Scientist: On 28 December 1963, Randy Gardner, a 17-year-ol...

SETI Releases Its Collected Data To The Public, Wants Open-Source Search For Whatever's Out There

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The Allen Telescope Array Radio? What is this, the 1930s? Aliens, hit us back on Twitter. We're @Earth284. SETI, via MSNBC From Popul...

Mobile Phones, Cancer And Alzheimer's Disease: The Ultimate Study Is Launched

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From The Telegraph: The world's biggest study into whether mobile phones cause cancer and other diseases has been launched by British sc...

In Deep Sea, Waves With a Familiar Curl

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From The New York Times: Scientists exploring the deep sea have discovered a distinctive kind of breaking wave. The finding reveals the pres...

Wow! Celebrate Hubble’s 20th With Best Space Image Ever

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From Wired Science: We were already dreading the day Hubble dies, but this mind-blowing new image released to celebrate the space telescope’...

Dream A Little Dream Of Recall

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From Science News: Nap-time reveries may show that sleeping brain is making memories. People who have nap-time dreams about a task that they...

Several Different Species Of Killer Whales Likely

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Killer whale. Scientists report finding strong genetic evidence supporting the theory there are several species of killer whales (Orcinus or...

Toilet Paper Problem: Good Raw Material Being Wiped Out

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From Live Science: A shortage of high-quality paper for recycling could mean scratchy toilet tissue. To keep consumers happy and avoid any c...