Saturday, May 21, 2011

Endeavour Cleared After Heat Shield Inspection

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Photo: The space shuttle Endeavour conducts a flip maneuver to allow inspection of its heat shield tiles, prior to docking at the Internati...

Free-Floating "Planets" Are More Common Than What Is Believed

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The "rogue" planets act as lenses, bending the light from distant stars 'Free-Floating' Planets Found With No Star In Sigh...

What If The Rapture Happens

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According Christian tradition, the rapture is the day when believers will ascend to heaven and be rewarded with everlasting life. CREDIT: Dr...

Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets

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Merging X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with microwave (orange) and visible images reveals the jets and radio-em...

How To Manipulate Social Movements By Hacking Twitter

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Image credit: Leo Espinosa Are You Following A Bot? -- The Atlantic How to manipulate social movements by hacking Twitter. One day last Febr...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Massive Storm On Saturn

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This false-color infrared image shows clouds of large ammonia ice particles dredged up by the powerful storm. Credit: Cassini Massive Storm ...

'Dark Energy' Confirmed

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The Anglo-Australian telescope was used in the galaxy survey New Method 'Confirms Dark Energy' -- BBC First results from a major ast...

How Piano Wires Changed Through The Centuries

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Even as the wires used in pianos changed from iron to steel, sound quality has remained largely the same. Getty Images How Piano Wires Chang...

10 Incredible Facts About The Human Brain

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10 astounding facts about the human brain 10 Astounding Facts About The Human Brain -- The Telegraph Last night, BBC One's Inside the Hu...

Atmosphere Above Epicentre Of Deadly Japan Earthquake Heated Up 'Rapidly' In Days Before Disaster

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Satellite images showing changes in the heat of the atmosphere above the epicentre of the March 11 earthquake between March 1 and March 12. ...

U.S. Special Ops Tracking Terrorists Everywhere

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Photo: An artists rendition of Montana State University's Explorer-1 [Prime] CubeSat. Montana State University/NASA U.S. Special Ops Bu...

Kindle E-Book Outsells Print Versions For First Time Ever

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Bestseller: The e-book is outselling text versions for the first time ever Is It The End For The Paperback? Kindle E-Book Outsells Print Ver...

Robots Learning Their Own Language

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The 'Lingodroids' Learning Language via IEEE Spectrum Robots Learn To CreateTheir Own Spoken Language -- Popular Science Having a co...

Beware Of The Coming Zombie Apocalypse

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Will Budget Cuts Leave Us Unprepared For Zombie Apocalypse? -- ABC News If zombies ever start taking over the planet, the U.S. Centers for D...

By Working As A Team, Autonomous Swarming 'Bots Can Quickly Explore and Map Structures

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GT's Henrick Christensen With One of the Team's Autonomous Mapping 'Bots Georgia Tech Working as a Team, Autonomous Swarming ...

Planets More Numerous Than Believed

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An artist's depiction illustrates a Jupiter-sized planet wandering free in interstellar space. The new findings appear to confirm the ex...

Rare Colour Photographs Of The Depression

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Distributing surplus commodities in St Johns, Arizona, October 1940 In The Bleak Light Of The Depression: Rare Colour Photographs Of The Era...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Protecting Ones Home From The Floods

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Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes -- Popular Science All of that water pouring out of spillways and toppin...

Using Viagra 'Could Make You Deaf'?

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The researchers are not sure how Viagra might affect hearing Photo: Alamy Viagra 'Could Make You Deaf' -- The Telegraph Viagra could...
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Moment Tsunami Swamps Japan's Doomed Fukushima Nuclear Plant

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(Click on image to Enlarge) Disaster strikes: The tsunami rushes over a protective sea wall and towards tanks of heavy oil for the Unit 5 of...