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9 Gift Ideas For The Aspiring Rocket Scientist In Your Life
Popular Science - 19 Nov 2012 23:33
Skip the telescope and go straight for the math-enabled bespoke clothing. The aspiring rocket scientist in your life probably already has a model space shuttle, a telescope and an impressive cache of gadgets, so donâ€...
Simulated Brain Ramps Up To Include 100 Trillion Synapses
Popular Science - 19 Nov 2012 22:02
IBM is developing a cognitive computing program under a DARPA program and just hit a major high. The Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, recently crowned world champion of supercomputers, jus...
How Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Knocks Almost Every Incoming Missile Out Of The Sky
Popular Science - 19 Nov 2012 21:01
It’s tough to hit a moving rocket with a moving rocket. Here’s how Israel’s new domestic missile defense system is doing it with unprecedented accuracy. The clash between Israel and Hamas-backed figh...
X Prize to Sequence Genomes of World’s Oldest People. Hopes To Unlock Secrets of Longevity
Singularity Hub - 19 Nov 2012 18:56
Toni Balcean turned 101 in September. How’d she beat a century? Simple. “Clean living and good Italian wine.†Case closed! Unless, of course, you like science. A retooled Archon Genomics X PRI...
Turkey Trouble: Genetics Gone Too Far?
KQED Quest - 19 Nov 2012 18:00
No, this isn’t a blog about genetically modified organisms -- that has been argued enough lately! Instead, in honor of Thanksgiving, I want to talk about regular old selective breeding and the monsters it can crea...
Cave stalactites yield best clues to sea-level rise
New Scientist - 19 Nov 2012 17:52
Evidence from a cave in Israel improves our record of changing sea levels over 150,000 years, suggesting predictions of future rises are bang on
The Deep-Space Suit
Popular Science - 19 Nov 2012 17:02
Astronauts can only travel so far in existing space suits. What will it take to see the universe? By the time the alarms go off, he’s back on his feet, hoping the rover wasn’t filming, but knowing that it w...
Seagull's-eye view of world's biggest wind turbine
New Scientist - 19 Nov 2012 14:12
The world's largest wind turbine rotor has blades 75 metres long – each almost the wingspan of an Airbus A380
Oppenheimer: the full story of a complex character
New Scientist - 19 Nov 2012 13:28
Inside the Centre is Ray Monk's sensitive, wide-ranging portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear bomb
Newswire: SLAC - BaBar Experiment Confirms Time Asymmetry
Interactions - 19 Nov 2012 07:12
Time's quantum arrow has a preferred direction, new analysis shows