Friday, June 3, 2011

China's Drought Is Impacting World's Food Supplies

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How Will China's Food Supply Weather the Year of Drought? -- Time In China food supplies and food prices are deeply sensitive topics. So...

Number Of Internet-Connected Devices Set To Reach 15 Billion Globally By 2015

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New generation of users: Almost three billion people are expected to be connected to the internet by 2015 Everybody's Doing It: Number O...

Endeavour's Mind-Boggling Cockpit Controls

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( Click on Image to Enlarge ) Cluttered cockpit: Commander Mark Kelly and Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori sit on Endeavour's flight de...

Astronomers Capture A Milky Way 'Clone'

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The large spiral galaxy named NGC 6744 Photo: ESO/PA Milky Way 'Clone' Captured By European Astronomers -- The Telegraph A striking ...

A Leap Forward For DNA-Based Computers

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A wiring diagram illustration depicts a system of 74 DNA strands that constitute the largest synthetic circuit of its type ever made. The ci...

The Evolution of DARPA's Robotic Hummingbird

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Video: The Evolution of DARPA's Robotic Hummingbird, From Start to Finish -- Popular Science Of all the DARPA projects we follow here at...

How Quantum Entanglement Will Help Computers Cool Themselves

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The Tianhe-1A Supercomputer NVIDIA Quantum Entanglement Means Computers Could Cool Themselves By Deleting Information -- Popular Science But...

The Final Minutes of Air France 447

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Photo : AF447 Rio-Paris plane flight data recorder are displayed during a press conference on May 12, 2011, in the French agency Bureau of E...

Honeybee Losses Reported Over Winter

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Honeybees are dying off and last winter U.S. populations dropped by 30 percent. NOAA Heavy Honeybee Losses Reported Over Winter -- Disco...

Phase Change Memory-Based 'Moneta' System

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A view of the internals of the Moneta storage array with phase change memory modules installed. (Credit: UC San Diego / Steve Swanson) Phase...

Air Pollution In Ancient Egypt

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This mummy was discovered in Dakhleh Oasis, a remote outpost in southwest Egypt and lived around 1,800 years ago, at a time when the Romans ...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Black Holes Spinning Faster Than Ever

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An artist’s impression of the jets emerging from a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy PKS 0521-36. Credit: Dana Berry / STS...

Windows 8 Tablets Set To Challenge iPad, Android

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Microsoft demonstrated for the first time the next generation of Windows, internally code-named "Windows 8," at the D9 conference....

Cartoon Pic For Today

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Californian Dolphin Gang Caught Killing Porpoises

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Photo : Frustrated youth (Image: Mark P. Cotter) From New Scientist: SEEMINGLY random acts of violence by bottlenose dolphins on porpoises c...

Hidden Hieroglyphs Found Inside The Great Pyramid

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A composite of images taken by a robot of the floor of the Great Pyramid is shown. Red hieroglyphs are visible. Djedi Team Robot Finds Hidde...

How One Man And Half A Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America

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The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America By Hannah Nordhaus HarperCollins 336 pp The Beekeeper...

VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage

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This Time Lapse Video of the Very Large Telescope At Work is the Coolest Thing You'll See Today -- Popular Science There’s very little w...

Why We Need A Good Night’s Sleep

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A Good Night’s Sleep Isn’t a Luxury; It’s a Necessity -- New York Times In my younger years, I regarded sleep as a necessary evil, nature’s ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Endeavour Returns Home For The Final Time (Video)

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As Endeavour Returns Home For the Final Time, Atlantis Prepares for the Last Shuttle Launch Ever -- Popular Science Sailing through the midn...