Friday, July 8, 2011

Better Eyes For The Next Generation of UAVs

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Hyperspectral Sensors: The Flying Eyes That See The Invisible -- Popular Mechanics Hyperspectral imagers seen in bands of light that humans ...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

A Separate Internet Could Curb Cyber Threats

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The U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command The U.S. military and intelligence arms are already defending the nation from cyber attacks. ...

New Clues To Galaxy Evolution

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The region around Supernova 1987A as viewed by Herschel and Hubble. (Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/NASA-JPL/Caltech/UCL/STScI and the Hubb...

A Lightning Show On Saturn

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Detailed views ... Saturn's great white spot. Photo: AP/NASA Saturn Puts On Spectacular Lightning Show -- Brisbane Times LOS ANGELES: Sa...

Tuna Need Urgent Protection, Study Concludes

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A school of bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii). CREDIT: NOAA Fisheries Service From Live Science: Five of the eight species of tuna now qualify...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Top 10 Civilizations That Mysteriously Disappeared

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From Toptenz.com: Throughout our history, most civilizations have either met a slow demise or were wiped out by natural disasters or invasio...

Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory Remains Closed As Wildfires Threaten Facility

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Los Alamos Fire: EPA Testing for Radiation -- ABC News The wildfire that surrounds the nuclear lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has grown to a...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

A Look At Cyberwarfare And Hackers From A Russian Perspective

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Evgeny Kaspersky was trained as a cryptologist and went on to co-found Kapersky Labs, which makes antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and oth...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Photos Of Space Shuttle Docked At Space Station

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ISS Shuttle Docking NASA First-Ever Photos of Space Shuttle Docked At Space Station -- Popular Science How the once-in-a-lifetime photo-op c...

Google Earth Goes Under the Sea

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From Popular Science: Google Earth broke new ground (new water?) when they took the world of virtual-earth-exploring into the oceans. Of cou...

Commentary On Europe's Organic Food Scare

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Europe's Organic Food Scare -- Wall Street Journal German Greens and their European Union acolytes have long fought scientific advances ...
Monday, June 13, 2011

What Could A Solar Flare Do To Us?

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CME NASA When The Sun Unleashed Its Plasma Blast This Week, Earth Got Lucky -- Popular Science What a predicted 2013 blast from the sun coul...

Ancient Language Dictionary Finished

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Martha Roth, Editor in Charge of the Assyrian Dictionary at the University of Chicago, puts the final volume in the set of books. (Credit: U...

New 'Subatomic Particle' Likely A Fluke

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The CDF detector, about the size of a three-story house, weighs about 6,000 tons. It recrods the "debris" emerging from each high-...

Astonishing Image Captures Night Sky

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The image, taken in the remote town of Denial Bay, a fishing village on the edge of the Great Australian Bight, was taken using a special ...

Most Apples Have Pesticide Residues

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Apples Top List For Pesticide Contamination -- CBS News That shiny little apple you're eating has a dirty little surprise. At least, tha...
Monday, June 6, 2011

An Army Of Hackers Are Now Informing For The FBI

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A quarter of hackers in the US have been recruited by federal authorities, according to Eric Corley, publisher of the hacker quarterly, 2600...
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...