August 2011
4 posts
Opportunity Snaps Gorgeous Vistas nearing the... →
Martian Vista from Opportunity nearing Endeavour Crater on Sol 2678 - August 2011
Large ejecta blocks from the nearby, small Odyssey crater are visible in the middle, foreground and are…
Anti-Matter Belt Discovered Around Earth →
Colour pictures revealed of London blitz from Nazi... →
For many, photographs from the World War II have only been seen in grainy black and white.
But now, new colour images have emerged that show the full horror of the destruction inflicted by Nazi bombings across London.
The powerful images were released to mark the 70th anniversary of the launch of Winston Churchill’s ‘V for Victory’ campaign on July 19, 1941.
July 2011
8 posts
Software exoskeletons →
There’s a major divide between the way scientists and programmers view the software they write.
New Planet Discovered In Trinary Star System →
A planet 6 times the mass of Earth orbits around the star Gliese 667 C, another member of a triple star system. Credit: ESO
Until recently, astronomers were highly skeptical of whether…
Violati gli archivi delle universita' italiane? →
Annunciati via Twitter e diffusi via Torrent dati apparentemente provenienti dai database degli atenei. Chi c’e’ dietro la nuova sigla che ha rivendicato l’intrusione?
Jon Rubinstein Sends Message to HP Staff;... →
Jon Rubinstein, in a leaked company-wide memo: In that spirit, Richard Kerris, head of worldwide developer
relations for webOS, reminded me yesterday of the first reviews
for a product introduced…
17% Smaller DES S-box Circuits Found →
solardiz writes “DES is still in use, brute-force key search remains the most effective attack on it, and it is an attractive building block for certain applications (the key size may be increased…
HP Says Apple Is Not TouchPad’s Target →
Jim Dalrymple, interviewing HP’s vice president of worldwide developer relations Richard Kerris: HP acknowledged Apple’s dominance in the tablet market, but said
Apple wasn’t its target with the…
Una mappa genetica per la sindrome di Down →
Ottenuto dall’Istituto di genetica e biofisica del Cnr di Napoli, grazie a un’innovativa tecnologia, il profilo completo dei geni alterati nei pazienti affetti da questa patologia. Si è non solo confermato che i geni del cromosoma 21 sono responsabili della malattia, ma che è la loro interazione con altri geni a determinare le alterazioni patologiche.
June 2011
7 posts
El Sur de la basura · ELPAÍS.com →
Cassini at Saturn, the Movie →
CASSINI MISSION from cabbas on Vimeo.
Science becomes art! A unique and stunning compilation of images of the Saturn system from the Cassini mission. Created by Chris Abbas of Digital…
May 2011
15 posts
Infographic: How the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample... →
Thanks to Space.com and the Tech Media Network for sharing this infographic showing how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will reach out and grab a sample from asteroid RQ26 in 2020. Source SPACE.com:
End of the Road for Spirit Rover →
A composite image of how the Spirit rover probably looks, stuck in Gusev Crater. Credit: NASA, image editing by Stu Atkinson.
In the wee hours of May 25, 2011 the scientists and…
TermKit →
I see TermKit as an extension of what Apple did with OS X, in particular the system tools like Disk Utility and Activity Monitor. Tech stuff doesn’t have to look like it comes from the Matrix.
Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable'... →
An anonymous reader writes “A rocky world orbiting a nearby star was confirmed (PDF) as the first planet outside our Solar System to meet key requirements for sustaining life.” The “key requirement”…
Algorithm Glitch Voids Outcome of US Green Card... →
jayminer writes “Results for the United States Diversity Visa Lottery for 2012 were declared void due to a programming glitch in the random selection algorithm. At first, the results were published…
Magma Ocean Flows Beneath Io’s Surface →
This graphic shows the internal structure of Jupiter’s moon Io as revealed by data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. The low-density crust about 30 to 50 kilometers (20 to 30 miles) thick…
Titan May Have Water Ocean Under the Surface →
RedEaredSlider writes “NASA’s Cassini probe, in orbit around Saturn, may have discovered evidence for a liquid water ocean under the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The data comes from radar…
The Tinkerer’s Guide, Page 7 (of 8) →
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Gravity Probe B Confirms Two of Einstein’s... →
Einstein’s predicted geodetic and frame-dragging effects, and the Schiff Equation for calculating them. Credit: Stanford University
Researchers have confirmed two predictions of Albert…
Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death' →
astroengine writes “In 1997, comet Hale-Bopp became the most spectacular space event of the past few decades. But where’s the huge lump of ice now? Astronomers have decided to check in on the…
Firefox 4 Breaks the 10% Mark →
This weekend, Firefox 4 broke through the 10% mark, according to StatCounter Global Stats, a popular measure of worldwide browser usage. The line should spike up even stronger when we turn…
“Non abbiate paura delle nuove tecnologie! Esse sono «tra le cose meravigliose» —...”
– Lettera Apostolica “Il rapido sviluppo” ai responsabili delle comunicazioni sociali
April 2011
23 posts
MESSENGER Finds Where X Marks the Spot on Mercury →
An unnamed crater on Mercury taken by MESSENGER’s Narrow Angle Camera. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Buried treasure…
Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement →
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they’re getting harder to find.
Brainstorming Clever Ways To Detect Alien... →
Phoghat writes “In what is starting to become a familiar theme, researchers have speculated on what types of observational data from distant planetary systems might indicate the presence of an alien…
Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery At LHC →
Magnifico writes “LiveScience is reporting that scientists are abuzz over a controversial rumor that the ‘God particle’ has been detected by a particle-detection experiment at LHC at CERN. The Higgs…
Error'd: Log in, Log out →
“From the new Medal of Honor,” writes Michael, “I just wanted to log out, and even though I already WAS logged in I apparently needed to log in again in order to log out.”
“This…
Instant Quantum Communication Is Near →
fljmayer writes “In this experiment, researchers in Australia and Japan were able to transfer quantum information from one place to another without having to physically move it. It was destroyed in…
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All Languages Linked To Common Source →
Old Wolf writes “A New Zealand evolutionary psychologist, Quentin Atkinson, has created a scientific sensation by claiming to have discovered the mother of all mother tongues. ‘Dr Atkinson took 504…
Maqetta: Open Source HTML5 Editor From IBM →
PybusJ writes “IBM has released an online HTML5 editing tool called Maqetta, hosted by the Dojo Foundation. eWeek calls it an open source answer to Flash and Silverlight. That remains to be seen, but…
9 Reasons Why The Killer Tablet App Is The Browser →
The tablet market is exploding and exceeding everyone’s wildest dreams. Apple is in the lead, but the Android tablets along with many others are on their way. In an interview back in January, I stated that “apps are bullshit for content”. I thought it would be good to clarify that statement and explain my reasoning why the future of content on tablet devices is not going to be delivered through...
Asteroid Observing Alert →
2011 GP59, as seen on April 12, 2011 by E. Guido & G. Sostero. Click the image to see more on this NEO from the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy.
A newly discovered asteroid could provide…
Microsoft's "Native HTML5" nonsense →
Another week, another nonsensical marketing claim from Microsoft.
Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview... →
IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a…
Astrophoto: A Whale of a Galaxy →
NGC 4631 in Canes Venatici, or the Whale Galaxy. Credit: R. Jay GaBany
A unique galaxy came swimming into view of noted amateur astronomer R. Jay GaBany’s telescope, with gorgeous…
CodeSOD: The Qualities of Equality →
With complex datatypes, objects references, internalization, and all the other intricacies that go into modern day software development, the matter of equality is often a bit more involved than…
The Awesome Button →
An anonymous reader writes “An awesome hardware hack which demonstrates how easily USB-based human interface devices (eg, Keyboards and Mice) can be created using the Arduino software environment.”
A…