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Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. Dozens of suspected terrorists have attempted to infiltrate Britain's top laboratories in order to develop weapons of mass destruction, such as biological and nuclear devices, during the past year. The big debate in the near to mid-term future of aviation, according to Professor Ian Poll is not nuclear versus conventional, but noise versus carbon. Airport noise limits, says Poll, are already causing increased emissions. Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos The UK's home office has confirmed, in extreme circumstances, it would be possible for the UK government to close down the internet. See Spooks (ep 2) As more and more people spend their time uploading digital narcissism to Facebook, the uber-social networking site seems to have burned through its Microsoft-juiced funding much quicker than expected. - Facebook is spending "well over" a million dollars a month in electricity alone and "likely" another $500,000 for bandwidth. Video: A Facebook privacy issue worth noting. spEak You’re bRanes In pushing for advertising regulation for Google TV executives are likely to usher in the technical regulation that makes Google invincible. Windows 7 Mental: All invisibility cloaks to date work by hiding an object embedded inside them. Now a group of physicists have worked out how to remotely cloak objects that sit outside a cloaking material. The trick is to make the cloaking material with optical properties that are exactly complementary to the space outside them. What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive? The Internet is the "Worse Is Better" poster child. A century after it began publication, The Christian Science Monitor is giving up its daily print edition to focus on posting news online. New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of mathematics by providing far more-reliable proofs of mathematical results than have ever been possible in the history of humankind. Mainstream database management system (DBMS) technology faces a challenge from new approaches that reject the relational model. Kindle Economics Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists [Externalrss-twitters-titles-rssr-3-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 A Few Harsh Words about Twitter. Profile: Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford's new Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science, a post recently relinquished by its first incumbent, Richard Dawkins. The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files, "making science fiction into reality" as Dr. John Parmentola - Director of their Research and Laboratory Management - puts it. The list of things currently in the works is amazing: Regenerating body parts on "nano-scaffolding", telepathy through electronic impulses in the scalp, and self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield through "quantum ghost imaging". Sounds like a dangerous combination. The US Army Research Office and the National Security Agency (NSA) are together looking for some answers to quantum physics questions. Under the watchful eye of law enforcement in 40 states, Craigslist pledged Thursday to crack down on ads for prostitution on its Web sites. 2009 is shaping up to be the most challenging year in more than a generation for luxury items such as high-end apparel and fragrances. Why an Economic Crisis Could Be the Right Time for Companies to Engage in 'Disruptive Innovation' Britain will miss its climate change goals without tenfold investment in green technology, say business leaders Steven J. Wallach thinks he has come upon a new idea in computer design in an era when it has become fashionable to say that there are no new ideas. Last week, Dilbert's Spam Filter became Self Aware The future of science fiction - William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson and Ursula K Le Guin comment. The 'Life Cube' - A blow-up survival shelter featuring a bed, a couch, freeze-dried food, a 50-gallon water bladder, a first-aid kit, a radio and a cookstove. The largest truck in the world is about to become the largest robotic vehicle in the world. Singularity Summit 2008 Reviewed The "world's first ruggedised, weaponised high energy solid state laser designed for battlefield applications" How Lightsabers Work [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssr-6-30] [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [Externalrss-Kurzweil-titles-rssl-6-30] Resources Focus On Financial Recruitment Financial Education Financial Publishing Financial Technology Financial Services Hedge Funds Forex Financial Conferences Financial Training Link Library > Blogs & Blogging > Research & Learning >> General Math >> Historical Resources >> Introductions & Guides >> Reading Lists >> Research Engines >> Study Guides & Strategies >> Tutorials & Lecture Notes > Web Links by Subject > Publications & Papers >> Featured Articles >> eBooks >> Scholarly Journals >> Papers & research >> Preprint & ePrint Servers >> Review Papers > General Resources >> Recruitment & Careers >> Communities & Groups >> Directories & Portals >> Financial Calculators >> Financial Glossaries >> Forums & Discussion >> Fun & Games >> Gambling & Markets >> Podcasts & Audio >> Software & Coding >> Video Resources Financial Services Directory Accounting Services Banking & Investment Business Schools Conferences & Events Communications & Marketing Consulting Services Financial Publishing Hedge Fund Services Legal Services Recruitment Services Software & Technology Stocks & Trading Training Providers More 100 Most Recent Posts Financial Intelligence Bookshop US Financial Intelligence Bookshop UK Wiley Finance Library Hedge Fund Tutorials Information Base Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory - Our universe is perfectly tailored for life. That may be the work of God or the result of our universe being one of many. The world's largest women-only university is being built in Saudi Arabia; with a campus that will cover 8m square metres and accommodate 40,000 students. The 5,300 year old human mummy - dubbed Oetzi or 'the Tyrolean Iceman' - is highly unlikely to have modern day relatives Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said rich nations must abandon their "unsustainable lifestyle" to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations bearing the brunt of worsening droughts and rising sea levels. Cells taken from mice frozen 16 years ago have grown into healthy clones, raising the possibility of reproducing long-dead animals and even resurrecting extinct species. 1675: Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Confusing creation with creationism. Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction Cool Science - Videos Baby talk: The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech (topical for me - Ed.) Taking up bowling or tennis is an excellent way to stay fit. But if you're not careful, you might find that these amateur sports can have unexpected long-term health risks. "Eighty per cent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, but men were even better, accurate 94 per cent of the time" - Men are better at detecting infidelities The Evolution of Insanity - Today's schizophrenic may believe that terrorists are beaming radio transmissions into his brain; 50 years ago, however, Communists were the culprits. There are simply too many exceptions to the conventional rules for genes. New Physics at an Aging Tevatron Amazon UK pulls Scientology exposé for 'legal reasons' [RandomProduct-143] Space News Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. For the last 12 months, the International Space Station's Early Ammonia System (EAS) has hung above our heads like an evil-smelling Sword of Damocles, which might suddenly plunge down to release its payload of eyewatering space niff at any time. NASA spinoff firm the Ad Astra Rocket Company has announced a key milestone in ground testing of its prototype plasma drive technology, the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). The International Space Station - 10 years in Space. There is a possibility that the Cassini probe might be repurposed to look for signs of life on Saturn's enigmatic moon Enceladus. American weaponrytech behemoth Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $30m contract by the US Air Force Space Superiority Systems Wing. Under the deal, Lockheed will develop a prototype "tactical" space scanner for use in the covert orbital warfare of tomorrow. Winners: The annual Northrop Grumman Lunar Landing challenge. It's the beginning of the end for the Phoenix Mars Lander. As winter approaches in the Martian arctic, NASA says it's in a 'race against time and the elements' in its efforts to prolong the robotic spacecraft's life. How to eavesdrop on alien chat I like the look of this: The New Star Trek Trailer [Externalrss-BehaviouralFinance-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-fintechfocus-titles-rssr-6-30]

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. Many marketing departments have access to so many facts and figures that 'analysis paralysis' has set in. New Statemen Profile: Joss Garman - Co-Founder of Plane Stupid. Why You Need Parental Approval to Recruit Gen Y The $100,000 Loebner prize for Artificial Intelligence. And the winner is: Elbot The impact of the financial crisis on Open Source Wikipedia and Epistemology or How the Wikipedians have redefined the word 'True'. Could Twitter become terrorists' newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks. Facebook Friendonomics Graphics: papervision3d.org Major leadership changes at Twitter renewed questions about its business prospects The use of social technologies increased markedly in 2008 5 things a days to stay sane. The next big stage in the evolution of the Internet will be the advent of the Semantic Web - that is, technologies that let computers process the meaning of Web pages instead of simply downloading or serving them up blindly. The 2008 Singularity Summit - Homepage Bill Gates' mysterious new company Coming up - Holographic TV [Externalrss-twitters-titles-rssr-3-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] Hijackers planning a repeat of the September 11 attacks are more likely to be thwarted by secure cockpit doors and passengers and crew fighting back than sky marshals, a study says. Amazing Images: Ice Waterfalls. - Under the Sea - Under the Microscope Why Children Choose the Foods They Do. When money is no object, the possibilities for a high-tech home are endless. One of the longest-sought, most keenly anticipated high-tech weapons of the past century - namely, the dreaded circuitry-frying electromagnetic pulse bomb - seems to have had its schedule moved forward. David Einhorn, a well-known hedge-fund manager has hit out at Microsoft's "overaggressive and almost panicky" attempts to plump up its online investments. Policing the Internet. Sanyo has developed a blue laser that could enable 100GB capacity Blu-ray Discs. What's a Supercar? It Does 200 MPH, Corners Like Cling Wrap, Attracts the Law. According to recent research, at age 39 our brain reaches its peak speed, and it's all downhill after that. The Atlas of the Real World. Creationists declare war over the brain Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) has launched h+, a stylish, web-based quarterly magazine that focuses on transhumanism, covering the scientific, technological, and cultural developments that are challenging and overcoming human limitations. [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [Externalrss-Kurzweil-titles-rssl-6-30] Resources Focus On Financial Recruitment Financial Education Financial Publishing Financial Technology Financial Services Hedge Funds Forex Financial Conferences Financial Training Link Library > Blogs & Blogging > Research & Learning >> General Math >> Historical Resources >> Introductions & Guides >> Reading Lists >> Research Engines >> Study Guides & Strategies >> Tutorials & Lecture Notes > Web Links by Subject > Publications & Papers >> Featured Articles >> eBooks >> Scholarly Journals >> Papers & research >> Preprint & ePrint Servers >> Review Papers > General Resources >> Recruitment & Careers >> Communities & Groups >> Directories & Portals >> Financial Calculators >> Financial Glossaries >> Forums & Discussion >> Fun & Games >> Gambling & Markets >> Podcasts & Audio >> Software & Coding >> Video Resources Financial Services Directory Accounting Services Banking & Investment Business Schools Conferences & Events Communications & Marketing Consulting Services Financial Publishing Hedge Fund Services Legal Services Recruitment Services Software & Technology Stocks & Trading Training Providers More 100 Most Recent Posts Financial Intelligence Bookshop US Financial Intelligence Bookshop UK Wiley Finance Library Hedge Fund Tutorials Information Base Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings -- research articles published online -- now reside in arXiv, which is free and available to the public. The Winner's Curse in Publishing Research. Scientists have demonstrated what is being called the "ultimate miniaturization of computer memory," storing data for nearly 2 seconds in the nucleus of an atom. With Wall Street's vaunted financial models looking shaky, could other models of complex systems - say, the climate models that underpin our understanding of global warming - have similar faults? Berkeley researchers think they have found a way to keep Moore's Law in action and get chip features down to the sub-10 nanometre level. Scientific Hoaxes through the Ages. A Multibillion-dollar "brain city" attracting up to 4500 elite scientists from around the world is earmarked for construction on Brisbane's western fringe. A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students in the US, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new study. The charred remains of flint from prehistoric firesides suggest our ancient ancestors had learned how to create fire 790,000 years ago. Apparently a man's sperm quality turns out to be a decent indicator of his brain power. [RandomProduct-143] Space News The first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way that European pioneers headed to America knowing they would not return home, says moonwalker Buzz Aldrin. Space tourist Richard Garriott is about to begin his 10-day stay aboard the International Space Station following a successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft. Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Technologically Advanced Planetarium. A computer programme which could help identify and even translate messages from aliens in outer space has been developed by a British scientist. Video: How the Weird Mars Science Laboratory Floating Sky Crane Works The biggest black holes may reach only a few tens of billions of times the mass of the sun. 200 UFO files will be made available by the UK's Ministry of Defence over the next four years. The Sounds of the Stars You need to know about The Drake Equation to make sense of A Numerical Testbed for Hypotheses of Extraterrestrial Life and Intelligence Gallery - NASA has launched its Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) on a mission to explore the interaction of our sun and solar system with the galaxy. NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week's repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology. The Hubble space telescope's main camera is back in action following the reactivation last week of the flying eye's backup computer system. US space agency NASA has announced a competition for schoolchildren to name a prototype inflatable habitat module intended for use on the Moon. VASIMR engines could greatly shorten robotic and human transit times for missions to Mars and beyond Gallery: Scary images from Space. Gallery: 'Fishbowl' spaceships and giant stars The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets. [Externalrss-BehaviouralFinance-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-fintechfocus-titles-rssr-6-30]

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. What to Expect from Google in the Next 10 Years Global Catastrophic Risks - Building a Resilient Civilization Google is marking its 10th anniversary by offering 10 million dollars to back world changing ideas. Facebook profiles can be used to detect narcissism - and on this theme: When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. MBA students taking Tony Blair's course on Faith and Globalisation will receive practical guidance on how religion can affect corporate strategy, personnel management and leadership Bloggers may long for the page views of a Huffington Post or DailyKos, but there's much to be said for speaking to a small, dedicated community Imagine there was one number that could sum up how influential you are. It would take into account all manner of things, from how many people you know to how frequently you talk with them to how strongly they value your opinion. Your score could be compared with that of pretty much anyone in the world. Sony Corp. unveiled a new e-book reader Thursday with a built-in light and a touch-sensitive display. Congress should resurrect the nationwide gambling ban that existed through most of the 20th century to help soothe a fragile U.S. economy shaken by the worst credit and financial crisis in decades The Japanese internet tycoon who paid $21 million to become the first space tourist to walk outside the International Space Station wants his money back. The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which people who are worst at a task show the most illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. From IT to hedge funds and back again At a time when the gulf between religion and science is growing ever greater, an artist has erected a temple for scientific worship. A world that is just 0.5 degrees C warmer in 2100 than before the industrial revolution is a technical, economical possibility – but only just. [Externalrss-twitters-titles-rssr-3-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] Three particle physicists who provided insights into how tiny violations in symmetry shape the universe share this year's Nobel prize in Physics – but the decision has already sparked controversy. Whether young people get drunk as a purposeful behavior or as an unintended consequence depends on what country they live in. Enter the meditative practice of mindfulness. Born of Buddhist roots, it's increasingly recognized as a measure to calm the mind's chatter and elevate the brain's thinking and organizational processes. New study looks to define evangelicals and how they affect polling in the US. Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people Money can't buy love, but it seems to earn you more babies. Polygamy left its mark on the human genome New research indicates that in situations in which a person is not in control, they're more likely to spot patterns where none exist, see illusions, and believe in conspiracy theories. Scientists explore what happened before the universe's theoretical beginning Outperforming by "Outbehaving": In today's hyperconnected world, power increasingly is derived through people—through relationships, authenticity, transparency, and openness. Amazing Pictures: Earth from Above For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. Fortunately, it is so small it is not expected to cause any damage [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [RandomProduct-143] A C Grayling: Creation myths have a place in education - but it's in the history lessons of secular schools, and nowhere else The world's 23 toughest math questions Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics The editorial in the Guardian and various letters, such as that from the Bishop of Lincoln, contain a significant amount of self-righteous criticism of the Royal Society's decision to ask the Rev Michael Reiss to resign from his position as Director of Science Education. If you feel your life is out of control and you can't change it, it might be your mother's low expectations that are to blame - if you're a woman. Gallery: Stunning visualizations of science The huge Large Hadron Collider will not restart until spring 2009, says the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Why? Forget black holes, thpugh - could the LHC trigger a 'Bose supernova'? The website of leading UK biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins may no longer be accessed in Asia Minor. 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The cause, they suggest, is the gravitational attraction of matter that lies beyond the observable universe. Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter Ray Kurzweil on 'the Vomit Comet'. Stars at the centre of the Milky Way could gobble up enough dark matter to extend their lifetimes by a billion or more years, a new study suggests. A critical failure on the Hubble Space Telescope has forced NASA to delay its mission to upgrade the observatory until at least February 2009. In a rare public appearance, Neil Armstrong yesterday urged NASA to set its sights on developing new capabilities for future generations, with a goal of human settlement in the universe around us. Multimillionaire tech visionary Elon Musk has finally achieved a long-sought goal on the fourth attempt, as his privately-funded SpaceX Falcon 1 is now circling the Earth. The US air force and NASA have launched a joint research push to advance hypersonic flight technology. NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is about to set off on what may be its final odyssey - a seven-mile (11.3 km) jaunt to a crater around 20 times larger than the Victoria Crater from which it extricated itself earlier this month. NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Gary Vaynerchuk has captured national attention in the US as a businessman and internet celebrity with his multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business building. Here he gives the keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. It takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. At considerable personal expense, Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert Cartoons, commissioned a survey of over 500 economists, drawn from a subset of the members of the American Economic Association of their views on the US Presidential Candidates plans for the Economy. Cloud Computing: "Companies spend billions on information technology, which isn't their core competency, because they've had no choice... That's changing." How to account for an increase in the price of text messages in the US. If you had a choice between receiving $1,000 right now or $4,000 ten years from now, which would you pick? Psychologists use the term "delay discounting" to describe our inability to resist the temptation of a smaller immediate reward in lieu of receiving a larger reward at a later date. Shira Gabriel, a psychologist at the University at Buffalo, conducted a series of three studies on celebrity worship, focusing specifically on how admiration from afar may affect the admirer's self-esteem. In a 2006 report, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization concluded that worldwide livestock farming generates 18% of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions Oil supplies will actually last for far longer than our politicians think, the scaremongers fear, and the oil companies tell us. So says Dr Richard Pike, head of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and someone who isn’t afraid to stir controversy. Wither, then, Peak Oil? "Subjects with measurably lower physical sensitivities to sudden noises and threatening images were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism and gun control," - Nervous people 'are likely to be right-wing'. The first ever British spy to purposely appear as such on TV had his false moustache fall off during filming. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] PA Consulting has blamed its loss of the personal details of the entire UK prison population on a rogue employee in an apparent plea not to be kicked off any more big government contracts. Wikileaks has obtained 10 years of messages and interviews by Osama bin Laden. What could arguably be one of the most technologically ambitious rock productions ever conceived. Scientists say an understanding of how the Twin Towers collapsed will help them develop the materials needed to build fusion reactors. Almost Alive: Preliminary new success in getting protocells with genetic information inside them to replicate. Bogus anti-Scientology DMCA notices sent to YouTube have been linked to a Wikipedia user. 9 of the most infamous criminal hackers to ever see the inside of a jail cell. Wired.com's Threat Level blog won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism on Wednesday for finding a way to let you readers highlight the worst whitewashing of Wikipedia entries by corporations and governments. According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is a vast body of public and subscription-based information that traditional search engines can't access. U.S. Army psychiatrists may be participating in the interrogation of detainees, while ignoring recommendations to the contrary from professional medical associations. Barack Obama has edited his official website on many issues, including a huge revision on the technology page. When it comes to sex roles in society, what you think may affect what you earn. A new study has found that men who believe in traditional roles for women earn more money than men who don't, and women with more egalitarian views don't make much more than women with a more traditional outlook. [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [RandomCompany-9] Controversy at the Royal Society after an article in the Guardian claims that the Education Director Professor Michael Reis had called for Creationism to be taught in schools. Michael Reis claims he was misrepresented in a letter to the editor. Apparently he has since resigned from his post anyway. Now, Richard Dawkins enters the debate. Darwin never warned against crossing black cats, walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement, but his theory of natural selection explains why people believe in such nonsense. Although Sarah Palin's entry into the 2008 presidential race has energized the religious right within the Republican Party, don't expect religion to be a major issue in this year's election Famous retired physics prof Peter Higgs - of boson renown - has stingingly counter-poohpoohed the theories of his equally well known Nobel Prize rival, Stephen Hawking, who has already poohpoohed Higgs' particle concept. Humanists are suing the UK's government's exam agency over its decision to prevent a board giving humanism equal status to faiths in a religious education GCSE. Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices. Combined presidential candidate responses to the SEA Science and Technology Survey. The Large Hadron Collider produces it's first images. Some people are claiming that the lauch last week was the most high profile scientific event in history - but oops, it's broken. Doing the math on Global Warming - How much will it cost? 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Image Credit: Lafreniere et al., Gemini North A nuclear reactor for the moon. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has been granted an Operational License by the US Air Force for the use of Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the Florida coast. In a paper published recently in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Tardigrades or 'water-bears' - are able to do away with space suits and can survive exposure to open-space vacuum, cold and radiation. The Milky Way's spiral arms could have cast the Sun far from its birthplace, a new simulation suggests. Advanced extraterrestrial civilisations may be sending signals through space by "tickling" stars, new research suggests. The signalling would be the galactic equivalent of the internet.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. Barack Obama on Science and Technology. The Internet on Barack Obama. Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it'll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. Which means honest-to-goodness energy weapons might actually become a military reality Management in a world run by Numerati. Today, if you're not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies' impact on business, then you're just not staying current. Period. Google launches, Chrome, a new browser. Here. Here. Here. Google, the world's most powerful 10-year old. Sony has asked West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to write a movie about how internet superphenomenon Facebook was spawned Nowadays, even Google is questioning Google's rose-colored portrait of its ever-expanding search advertising monopoly. Last month, New York-based novelist Meg Wolitzer, 49 - who has been described as the female Philip Roth - published, The Ten Year Nap -"an addictive examination of the minutiae of the lives of four women friends who find themselves at odds over what to do after 10 years out of the workplace". A $98 Linux Laptop - and on the other hand: The Blue Waters Supercomputer: - "...an unrivaled national asset that will have a powerful impact on both science and society..." The 5 most laughable terms of service on the Net. An artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly. Extract from: Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, by Jeff Howe. Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] What's so bad about Bono trying to save the world? Stephane Rousson, a 39-year-old Frenchman who's hoping to cross the English Channel in a homemade, pedal-powered airship. So a study shows it's true, women tend to choose husbands who look like their fathers - and the women in the Proceedings B study also resembled their partner's mother. The handling of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon's case is in marked contrast to how US authorities handled a similar one ten years ago. BBC Profile of Gary McKinnon here. If you've got the wall space to spare, then perhaps you’ll be attracted by the world's largest TV. Bloomberg accidently dispatched Apple supremo Steve Jobs to the hereafter with a 17-page obit inadvertently published during an apparent update. 10 Geeky Movies for Children. Top 5 Gadgets That Could Get You Arrested. Over a period of twelve hours, between last Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology. Future Transport: Sci-Fi Art. Has any single videogame been so relentlessly hyped prior to its release as Spore, the latest brainchild of SimCity creator Will Wright? [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [RandomCompany-5] It should be possible to counteract the global warming associated with a doubling of carbon dioxide levels by enhancing the reflectivity of low-lying clouds above the oceans, according to researchers in the US and UK. Parents can play an active role in the identity formation of the adolescent children. A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic Physicists at Fermilab in the U.S. have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas. "The Handmaid's Tale shows how patriarchy treats women as escape goats." - And other Great Exam Gaffes Do nuclear decay rates depend on our distance from the sun? A new study could explain why "daddy" and "mommy" are often a baby's first words. Social inequity is worse for people's health than a lack of medical facilities, but the situation can be remedied "within a generation" Purdue University in the US has announced how it will reprimand Rusi Taleyarkhan after an internal committee ruled in July that he is guilty of scientific misconduct. 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August 2008 has made solar history. As of September 1st 2008 we just witnessed the first spotless calendar month since June 1913. Or maybe not. Crewmembers onboard the International Space Station had to take the unusual step this week of firing booster rockets to lower the station's orbit, in order to avoid a chunk of space debris that may have come within a mile of the orbital platform. NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers. By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe – 10 million times the mass of the sun. An alien landscape on earth.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. Burj Dubai Skyscraper - August 2008.- And while we at it: the Burj Al Arab. A Carbon-neutral Ziggurat pyramid could house 1.1 million in Dubai. Elbonian Spies have stoles Dilbert's Laptop. The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including 'pharmacological land mines' and drones directed by mind control. Researchers in the UK have harnessed signals from thousands of disembodied rat neurons, and manipulated them to get a robot to respond to instructions. The scientific evidence against Bruce Ivins, the 62-year-old Army scientist who killed himself while about to be indicted for the anthrax murders, is finally emerging. 10 Next-Gen Olympic Doping Methods. Why Your Office Isn't Like Google's., What's Eating Generation X? How Much Time Should You Spend Networking? Into the future: Pros and cons of a Google world. The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth. Has Google Lost Its Mojo? [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] The Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell misled the public about the green credentials of a vastly polluting oil project in Canada, in an attempt to assure consumers of its good environmental record. Should directors at stricken companies stay in their posts until the bitter end, even if insolvency is inevitable? If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove. Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo. Stealthy Persistent Perch and Stare. UK government departments have managed to leak a total of 29 million personal records over a single year. The problem of long-term digital storage is a crucial hurdle for any civilization trying to act generationaly. Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury turned 88 years old on August 22. A small subculture of amateur physicists and science-fiction fans - fewer than 100 worldwide - are building working nuclear-fusion reactors at home. If superluminal signals are responsible for entanglement they must travel at more than 10,000 times the speed of light. Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Godel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict the success of problem-solving with real data and computers. [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [RandomCompany-5] Britain's honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year. Researchers who analysed 30,000 academic studies dating back to 1970 said man was responsible for changes that ranged from the loss of ice sheets to the collapse in numbers of many species of wildlife. Book Review: Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese. There have been few previous attempts to investigate the idea that people seem to find others more attractive when drunk. Bigfoot Apparently. Or Apparently Not. People who've exchanged wedding vows tend to be healthier than their single, divorced or widowed peers, but new research shows that health gap may be narrowing. Visualising 4D shapes. Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found. As astonishing as Usain Bolt's record-breaking 100-meter sprint was, his time of 9.69 seconds is nowhere near what biostatisticians predict is the natural limit for the human body. How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World. The psychology behind students who don't cheat. 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"In fact, all universes can support the existence of stars, provided that the definition of star is interpreted broadly," said researcher, Fred Adams. Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus. Cassini's first-of-a-kind sharp shooting over the south polar terrain of Enceladus to image the unusual geology there was a dazzling success. Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter - by crashing a low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater. Solar systems like ours likely to be rarer than we thought. Inside Russia's Camp for Cosmonauts. Many believe that humanity's destiny lies with the stars. Sadly for us, rocket propulsion experts now say we may never even get out of the Solar System.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. Bill Gates wants to make Capitalism more Creative. A top US scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks War of the Words: Scrabulous Is off Facebook in the US, but Did Hasbro Win the Game? Plenty of digital ink has been spilt this week over the launch of the suicidally-monikered new search engine Cuil.com - "Lunch is ordered in every single day... Huge fridges burst with snacks and drinks. Bowls of strawberries and muffins lie around the rest area..." Inside Google's AdWords auction. Britain's top court refused Wednesday to stop the extradition to the U.S. of a British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers - something he claims to have done while hunting for information on UFOs. Twitter's Business Model? Managers seeking to hire star employees away from competitors are likely to be disappointed with their costly new employee's performance - and the star is likely to be unhappy, too - according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. How big is the free economy? Pretty disturbing report on NHS computers, dumped in Ghana, where their hard drives are mined of confidential data by criminal gangs and children die melting down the highly toxic empty shells. Next Generation Web-Browsing. A US intelligence office Friday warned Americans traveling to the Beijing Olympics or elsewhere to expect cyber spies to surreptitiously compromise their laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices. In an assessment that could lead to a substantial charge against its future profits, Google Inc. believes its $1 billion investment in advertising partner AOL is souring. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] openstreetmap.org It's official: The Home Office is listening. Fiction: Engineers' Dreams by George Dyson - For 400 years, we have been waiting for machines to begin to think. Extract: The Last Theorem by Arthur C Clarke and Frederik Pohl. Two weeks ago, the US Navy canceled plans to build the rest of its hulking stealth destroyers. At first, it looked like the DDG-1000s' $5-billion-a-copy price tag was to blame. Now, it appears the real reason has slipped out: The world's most advanced warship is all but defenseless against one of its best-known threats. Unsolved problems in philosophy Book Review: "The Gridlock Economy" by Michael Heller The first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. Aston Martin unseats the Veyron as the World's Most Expensive Car. Profile: Raymond Kurzweil - Still Inventing. The term "cloud computing" encompasses many areas of tech, including software as a service. [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [RandomCompany-5] Some amazing photos of the Large Hadron Collider which is due to destroy the world at the end of the year. The Russians have withdrawn their claim to have made the deepest freshwater submersion in Siberia's Lake Baikal after hitting bottom at just 1,580 metres (5,180 feet) - short of their planned touch-down at 1,680 metres (5,510 feet). The Bugatti Veyron is among the most exclusive cars in the world, a 1,000-horsepower super exotic owned by fewer than 150 people. Every one of them is about to be upstaged by the drop-dead gorgeous roadster Bugatti will unveil later this month. "The pollution from driving a Lamborghini is bad enough, but flying one thousands of miles for a service is taking climate-wrecking behavior to new heights." - Tony Bosworth of Friends of the Earth. Secretive and publicity shy, David E. Shaw made billions of dollars using fantastically complex computer algorithms to trade on Wall Street. Now the former computer scientist at Columbia University-turned-tycoon is about to finish the most powerful supercomputer in history. "It's a philosophical exercise in what identity is and why we should care about that." - George Church, The Personal Genome Project. At over 3 kilometres beneath the surface, sitting atop what could be a huge bubble of magma, it's the hottest water ever found on Earth. For some philosophers, attending the World Congress in Seoul is a huge privilege. So why does it leave British delegates cold? UK scientists publish more research than any other country in the world except the United States. Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects. Research in diamond mechanosynthesis - building diamond nanostructures atom by atom using scanning probe microscopy -- just received a major boost with a $3 million grant from the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. A carbon membrane only a single atom thick has been used to create a pressurised "balloon" that is impermeable to gas. High-flying kites tethered to generators could supply as much as 100 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 100,000 homes, according to researchers from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. 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Nukes are not the best way to stop an asteroid. The idea that certain aspects of our universe make it uniquely suited to life has never been properly tested. There is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat. Are they really out there or is it all an elaborate prank? Top 10 Exoplanets: Weird Worlds in a Galaxy Not So Far Away Last week at Climate Camp - Kingsnorth, Kent, UK 3-11 August, 2008 - "political policing of the worst kind" - Police clash with protesters who refuse to be searched. - Plane Stupid Protest at Gatwick. - Food vans are being stopped by the Police. - Mass Action at Kingsnorth on Saturday - Protest at RBS HQ - Protesters target a biofuel depot in Essex. - Objections to Police in Riot Gear. - Arthur Scargill Shows up. - The Medway harbour master has refused permission for a River procession on Saturday. - Coverage on You Tube

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. 'Not a Site, but a Concept': Tapping the Power of Social Networking. Facebook: Too Creepy, Childish for the Workplace Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money. Time magazine calls it the wellspring of net culture and its online pranks are world-famous. David Smith in the Guardian reports on the man who began the chaotic but powerful 4chan website from home. Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web. Google announced on its official blog Wednesday the debut of Knol, a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia penned by authoritative sources. The challenge of working with mavericks. As a marketing exercise to boost interest in its forthcoming game Spore, Electronic Arts' release of  Creature Creator has been something of a masterstroke. MIT Students develop a parabalic solar collector hot enough to melt steel. The UK Ministry of Defence has told parliament that it has lost or had stolen some 87 USB sticks holding "protectively marked" - ie classified - material since 2003. Google's ginormous second quarter profits didn't quite match Wall Street expectations, driving share prices down as much as 7 per cent in after hours trading. Does anyone else remember when technology companies were propping up this economy? Corporate misconduct can be the stuff of high drama. But prevailing theory has it that "settling up," the process of meting out consequences for corporate misdeeds, is largely determined by quite rational, unbiased financial markets and often the legal system. The Guardian's excellent Web 2.0 blog-up A $23,000 vial? Drug Companies Get Healthy, but at Whose Expense? [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] The projection used for this world map, also known as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by Buckminster Fuller. It is the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is, an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents. The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it. Flash memory chips with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years have been developed by Japanese scientists. The Dodge Tomahawk Concept Motorcycle. Procedural generation in Video Games. Even 60 milliseconds of exposure to a brand name such as Wal-Mart or Tiffany can alter consumers' subconscious goals, according to new research. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who made annual budgets were more accurate than those who made monthly ones. Life extension is a growing market and could be the next significant industry targeted by Venture Capitalists and private investment as alternative energy and clean tech eventually wane. A Book With 90,000 Authors. Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that babies use the same technique as adults to overcome limits in their working memory: grouping things into hierarchical categories. A 419er with added menace: "i was paid to eliminate you and I have to do it within10 days" The scary Spyhone II 8210. The BBC's Panorama team have revealed that UK airport operator BAA has cynically colluded with the government to falsify the environmental impact of expanding Heathrow airport. Downing Street has denied claims that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is currently super-glued to a climate action campaigner. [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] [RandomCompany-5] The university of the future. The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space. A Purdue University panel investigated allegations against nuclear engineering professor Rusi Taleyarkhan, finding that he had in fact committed scientific misconduct in his work. Taleyarkhan had published papers in which he reported seeing evidence of nuclear fusion in the collapse of tiny bubbles in a liquid subjected to ultrasonic excitation. 40,000 years ago, the Cro-Magnoid people - the first people who had a skeleton that looked anatomically modern - entered Europe. Their DNA was just like ours. 1925: John Scopes, an unassuming high school biology teacher and part-time football coach, is found guilty of teaching evolution in schools, in violation of Tennessee law. Temptation may be everywhere, but it's how the different sexes react to flirtation that determines the effect it will have on their relationships. In a new study, psychologists determined men tend to look at their partners in a more negative light after meeting a single, attractive woman. On the other hand, women are likelier to work to strengthen their current relationships after meeting an available, attractive man. For the first time, researchers have measured the intrinsic strength of graphene, and they've confirmed it to be the strongest material ever tested. Bureaucrats at the American Physical Society (APS) have issued a curious warning to their members about an article in one of their own publications. Don't read this, they say - we don't agree with it. 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If they had access to telescopes far more powerful than our own, it might look a lot like what the Deep Impact spacecraft recently saw from its vantage point 50 million kilometres away. A leaked internal report shows that NASA's ambitions to get its new moonshot spacecraft off the ground in five years may be thwarted by technical and financial issues. Using the International Space Station to get to the Moon. What good can studying the Moon do us? How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have developed using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. For decades, scientists have theorized – romanticized, even – that Mars has harbored water. The evidence has grown stronger as recent missions to the Red Planet have revealed in stunning detail Martian topography, mineralogy and clues to past climate. But how much water, where it was or is located and what it was doing have been hard to pin down. Recently, media reports have described a sort of "shadow army" of engineers who - in their spare time - are designing an alternative to NASA's future Ares rockets. Up about 50 kilometers above the surface Venus is the most Earth-like environment, other than Earth itself, in the solar system. To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.  

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. The 2008 State of the Future report proposes 15 global challenges. Is Google Making Us Stupid? Honestly, Google Lively. The BBC iPlayer is well ahead of the game when it comes to online video. Court papers have told the world what it already knows: Facebook is not worth $15bn. Poor reading and writing skills among graduates are a concern for half of the UK's top employers, a survey suggests. The future of brain-machine interfaces. The final novel by legendary sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke is to be published in August. Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer. The Central London County Court has ordered four BitTorrent users to pay a video games company £750 interim damages following a landmark victory by no win, no fee copyright lawyers. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment - which fittingly started on April Fool's Day - was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam. Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain. message and pop-up ad on their PC. College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to download music and movies. A bizarre case was reported in the Times last week of a woman who used a website - www.hitman.us.com - to hire a contract killer to "rub out" her multi-millionaire partner. "Experimental Philosophy" (Oxford University Press), edited by Knobe and Nichols, brings together seven "greatest hits," considered the most influential papers in experimental philosophy. It also includes several provocative new papers, including an introductory chapter by Knobe and Nichols, "An Experimental Philosophy Manifesto." The roundest objects in the world. A new understanding of how energy can be transferred in collisions at the molecular scale. Review: Pixar's 'WALL*E' succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] The Function of Dysfunction: An associate professor ponders the cause and effect of academic infighting. The Ombudsman: Verification of Citations: Fawlty Towers of Knowledge?. A PDF of the full paper is available here. 2-Hour Charge Gets 150 Miles In Electric Car UK MPs have welcomed moves to secure the immediate future of the Jodrell Bank observatory. The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" Uranium - the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. A ray gun that uses the "microwave audio effect" to implant sounds and perhaps even specific messages inside people's heads. The F-22 is arguably the world's most sophisticated fighter jet, a so-called fifth generation jet, hailed by US pilots in a promotional video showed by Lockheed Martin as excellent at "taking care of the air threat, paving the way for the bombers to get through". One of the most avidly-followed aircraft now under development - the F-35B supersonic stealth jumpjet - was on show at Farnborough Last week's dramatic rescue of 15 hostages held by the guerrilla organization FARC was the result of months of intricate deception on the part of the Colombian government. At the center was a classic man-in-the-middle attack. Will the Real Theory of Evolution Please Stand Up? Scientific American takes a close look at Batman. Most of the 36 volunteer subjects given psilocybin, under controlled conditions in a Hopkins study published in 2006, continued to say 14 months later that the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction. William Trubridge freedives The Arch, 58 meters down, at Blue Hole, Dahab - Fantastic! [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] Why Canada is the best haven from climate change. Does Osama bin Laden Still Matter? Upcoming Aubrey de Grey Q&A at Slashdot. In case you don't know who he is: A Biogerontologist who has spent much of the last 20 years investigating the science of aging by considering the aging process as a multifaceted disease whose manifestations can be mitigated. A new attempt to misrepresent evolution as scientifically controversial. "Xian-Jin Li's purported proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (reported on recently) has been rebuked by Fields Medalist Terence Tao . Fortunately, Dr. Li's proof fails alongside a respectable graveyard of previous attempts." British professors have secured government research funding for their plans to generate energy using gigantic black rubber snake-like devices moored off the UK coasts. Now comes word that it isn't just wildlife that can go extinct. The element gallium is in very short supply and the world may well run out of it in just a few years. Indium is threatened too, says Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany's University of Augsburg. He estimates that our planet's stock of indium will last no more than another decade. All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and another twenty years will see the extinction of zinc. Even copper is an endangered item, since worldwide demand for it is likely to exceed available supplies by the end of the present century. Two separate groups of researchers have recently published papers demonstrating advances in creating, sorting and organizing carbon nanotubes so they can be used in electronics. Life on Earth might have emerged about 750 million years earlier than previously thought, new research suggests. The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. 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New pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceShip 2. NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium. Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have discovered. NASA's first mission capable of finding earth-sized and smaller planets - Kepler. The UK's largest ever space rocket was unveiled to the public on Tuesday 1 July by a Salford University academic who has ambitious plans to send tourists into space by 2013. A Japanese firm has begun accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap and get married in space.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. The inner workings of Google just became a little less secret. Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web. If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs, Matt Cohler, a pivotal player in Facebook Inc.'s rapid growth, is departing the popular online hangout to find other promising Internet startups for a prominent venture capital firm. From next year, all those who wish to work, either paid or unpaid, with children or vulnerable adults in the UK will need to be vetted. The Legacy of Bill Gates. The Replicating Rapid-prototyper (RepRap) was created by scientists from the University of Bath and is essentially a printer that's able to build 3D plastic objects After more than a decade of seeing its massive Lotus Notes business threatened by Microsoft, IBM faces a new threat: Salesforce.com. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Facebook has overtaken rival social network MySpace for the first time. US Election forecasters preparing for an historic election. Established methods for estimating the human cost of war typically underestimate by a factor of three. Google is now offering software that streams video, photos, and music from your PC to your television. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] An interesting corollary to 'The Wisdom of Crowds'. Media reports suggest that the US military has begun a secret, multibillion-dollar programme which will develop a new and more effective Stealth bomber. Reports indicate that Scaled Composites - famous for its X-Prize and Virgin Galactic rocketplane work - will play a key role. Humour: 150 CV mistakes and bloopers. A solar powered solar panel factory. What Does the U.S. Do with Nuclear Waste? The most radical supply-side reform ever considered by the music business in the modern era. Every Lego set ever manufactured. Could nuclear warheads go off 'like popcorn'? Taking advantage of new technology and mistakes by its adversaries, al-Qaeda's core leadership has built an increasingly prolific propaganda operation. The Future has a Kill Switch. Greenpeace posed as a pro-coal organization to become a sponsor of the 2008 McCloskey Coal USA conference, which was surprised but allowed them to deliver a brief anti-coal message, officials said Friday. [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] Eigenfactor: - Mapping and Ranking Scientific Knowledge. The World's Youngest Professor. In what has to be an embarrasment for the U.S. Department of Energy, an anonymous donor has ponied up $5 million to keep the country's only remaining particle physics laboratory operating efficiently. An embarrassing picture of the UK's bio research facilities. Louisiana passes first antievolution "academic freedom" law CERN has declared its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) perfectly safe. Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the bizarre properties of glass, which behaves at times like both a solid and a liquid. Was questionable behavior behind the abrupt departure of Alden March Bioethics Institute's chief? The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life is strongly related to how children behave later on. One in four UK state secondary schools do not employ a specialist physics teacher. June 30, 1908 - The Tunguska event. What We Can Learn From Buckminster Fuller. 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ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time to transfer in one step 811 kg of refuelling propellant to the International Space Station while the two vehicles orbited Earth at 28 000 km/h. With this premiere for Europe, Jules Verne becomes the first western spaceship to succeed in refuelling another space infrastructure in orbit. The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for predicting the properties of a conjectured new class of black holes. The most extreme life-forms in the universe. Is the matter in the universe arranged in a fractal pattern? A new study of nearly a million galaxies suggests it is - though there are no well-accepted theories to explain why that would be so. Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, warned in an interview published Sunday that the United States risked falling behind Russia and China in the space race if it did not redouble its efforts.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail.   Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal. Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World. 10 reasons why the back hats have us outgunned. The Top 100 IT Companies 2008. Ray Kurzweil Talks Up a 3D Mobile Future. Reading the E-Leaves With Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The least surprising headline of the year? Web 2.0 fails to produce cash Godel, Escher, Chopin: Inuitive links between musical chords and geometries A group of leading medical scientists has called on the government to investigate what effects the use of brain performance-enhancing drugs by healthy people could have on society, education and the workplace. Anti-Scientology campaigners are up in arms after it emerged that City of London police issued a court summons to a teenager for displaying a sign that branded the Hollywood-bothering, UFO-fancying sect a "cult". BBC Radio 4 news flagship The Today Programme said today it will axe its online message boards at the end of this month, prompting anger and charges of censorship from users. What do you do with a robot armed with a million-round-per-minute gun? ' Crowd control,' apparently. The Pentagon's internal watchdogs can't keep up with the explosive growth in military spending. Which means $152 billion's worth of contracts annually aren't being reviewed for fraud, abuse and criminal interference. [Externalrss-BehaviouralFinance-titles-rssl-6-30][Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] Book Review: Freeman Dyson on ' Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies', by William Nordhaus. 10 Green Heresies 16% of US science teachers are creationists. Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of 'Anthropic Principles' that strive to explain why the laws of physics take the form we observe, given the nearly countless other possibilities permitted by schools of thought such as string theory. An Older Brain really may be a Wiser Brain. McCain and Obama on Technology Billions of dollars are spent developing cancer drugs, but precious few get approved. Is the US FDA part of the problem? A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the 'psychological torture' he endured in custody. An influential group of MPs has urged the UK government to seek assurances from Washington that the Patriot Act would not be used to access personal data contained in the UK census, if it is outsourced to US defence contractor Lockheed Martin. On Friday, an international court ruled that amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius doesn't get a boost from his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs - called Cheetahs. A French skydiver's hope to set a new free-fall record has been dealt another setback - his ride to the sky left without him. The helium balloon Michel Fournier, 64, was going to use to soar to the stratosphere detached from the capsule he was going to use to jump from 130,000 feet (40,000 meters). Cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar on May 2, 2008, with an estimated death toll in the range of 100,000. This Google mapplet shows the latest maps available which include significant towns and landmarks such as medical facilities, with two special layers of satellite imagery showing before and after the storm. [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30][Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare. Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes. A 16-year old student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags. "Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. 8 Child Prodigies. Bristol-based researchers have said that they "can't recommend" the idea of solving global warming by putting a giant sunshade in space so as to cool the earth down. God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program may explain how religion evolved- By distilling religious belief into a genetic predisposition to pass along unverifiable information, the program predicts that religion will flourish. However, religion only takes hold if non-believers help believers out - perhaps because they are impressed by their devotion. Why Are Academics So Weird? Six Degrees of Wikipedia. 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The doughnut is making a comeback – at least as a possible shape for our Universe. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence assumes that ET will be communicating using photons, not neutrinos. An ordinary observation with NASA’s Swift research satellite recently led to the first real-time sighting of a star in the process of exploding. Polygons on Mars. More Mars in High Res. A third giant red storm has flared up on Jupiter, joining the Great Red Spot and the recently developed Red Spot Junior. The spot, along with new measurements of record-high wind speeds on Red Spot Junior, come at a time when the solar system's largest planet is experiencing a time of global upheaval. ANU astronomers have found there is nothing special about the Sun after conducting the most comprehensive comparison of it with other stars - adding weight to the idea that life could be common in the universe. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times.   On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger jumped from an air-thin height of 102,800 feet (31,334 meters). From that nearly 20 miles altitude, his tumble toward terra firma took some 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Exceeding the speed of sound during the fall, Kittinger used a small stabilizing chute before a larger, main parachute opened in the denser atmosphere. He safely touched down in barren New Mexico desert, 13 minutes 45 seconds after he vaulted into the void.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail.      Condos in Miami, traditional music stores, gas-guzzling cars, pharmaceuticals that get bad press and foods made with trans fats: All marketers, from time to time, confront products that, for whatever reason, become difficult to sell. "Integrating Environmental Concerns in Business Decision-Making: Internal Processes and External Pressures," and "Business and Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation; Regulation and Costs." Seldom are businesses in the developed world implicated directly in torture, but too often they avert their eyes as their products, purchases or independent contractors support abuses. Beijing Games sponsors like Coke are pushing their participation within China, while simultaneously playing it down in the West. Women who alert authorities to their organizations' wrongdoing perceive they suffer more retaliation than do men, reports an initial study published in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The appeal of twittering. (Something I'm playing with - Ed.) 50 habits of highly successful people. Social Networking to Watch: Ning. Facebook's coming Facelift. It is one of the best-performing tourist destinations in the world. The number of guests in the past year has more than doubled. Welcome to sunny Palestine. A crush of developing nations trying to gatecrash the nuclear power club has prompted fears of a subsequent race to develop nuclear weapons. When credit was easy, private equity's multibillion-dollar buyout frenzy was like a great party: The champagne was flowing and no one was too concerned about who was picking up the tab. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-FinanceFocus-titles-rssr-6-30] Quantum gambling machines may not be popping up at futuristic casinos any time soon, but the devices could have other uses – such as enabling physicists to study game theory in situations where cheating is impossible. Cyborg animals, psychotropics and flying lasers are just some of the terrifying weapons government labs have cooked up over the years. 10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die. The "world's longest sea bridge", a 36-kilometre (22-mile) structure which connects Jiaxing city near Shanghai to the port city of Ningbo in China. The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor Tim Berners-Lee, seen here in 2001, said on the 15th anniversary of the web's effective launch. The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too. Meet Peter Thiel - co-founder of PayPal, angel investor in Facebook, founder of the hedge fund Clarium Capital Management, adviser to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and self-described libertarian. In an attempt to bring one of the most famous inventions of the 20th century into the digital age, scientists of the "Ambient Intelligence Group" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed the "intelligent stickies". These are essentially Post-its with a twist. 2500 Government websites in thw UK. Don't call it a flying car. It's a "roadable aircraft." How to survive a nuclear blast. Gary Fung (25) heads the popular BitTorrent search engine Isohunt and two tracking sites, Podtropolis and Torrentbox. How Web 3.0 will work. Newly released UFO files from the UK National Archive. [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project'. Your Brain on Ethics. The new Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) will apply mathematics to gain quantitative insights into some of the 21st Century’s most pressing problems. Organizers of ScienceDebate 2008 are "disappointed" but "not surprised" that the three main US presidential candidates have ignored invitations to participate in a public debate on science that was scheduled to take May 2. Professor Keith Mason, the man in charge of scything £80m from the UK's physics research budget, has been sharply criticised by MPs investigating cutbacks which have forced job losses in labs and threaten to shut down many projects. .A leading Scottish churchman and bioethics thinktank operator has warned again of the dangers attendant on genetic research, and recommended that there should be a law against men having children with female chimpanzees. Auctioned last week in London, a letter by Albert Eistein, leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions". Why we lie to children. 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Space News A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope! Artificial intelligence (AI) being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet. Physicists have come up with a way to explain how information could escape from a black hole, an idea that's been debated since the 1970s. Detection Probability of Terrestrial Radio Signals by a Hostile Super-civilization A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The ancient catastrophe that gave birth to the Moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earth's skies for tens of millions of years. Mounting mirrors on the Moon and using them to signal across space could let ET know we Earthlings are here. The universe is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers now suggest. Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. A student at the University of Mississippi will leap into the final frontier of the legal system Saturday when he receives the first-ever space law certificate in the United States.  

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. "cognitive surplus". How Social Networking could kill web search as we know it. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are learning that their supposedly private remarks can be made widely public, thanks to bloggers. Holographic storage ships next month! The man who created the Fortean Times. Physicists quantify the 'coefficient of inefficiency'. Rebranding the bin Ladens. Google makes money selling ad inventory. And its ad inventory is diminished on a cell phone. James Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation in Europe and Asia, has attacked the BBC for squashing competition in the broadband TV market with its costly iPlayer service. The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate. Unearthing diamonds through human resources knowledge discovery. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses. New nanotechnology consumer products are coming on the market at the rate of 3-4 per week. Storing data for the next 1000 years. Chilling evidence of Google's extraterrestrial ambitions: with googlejupiter.com, googlemercury.com, googlesolarsystem.com, googlegalaxy.com and indeed google-universe.net An American law student has published an analysis of international law regarding war crimes that might be committed using future brain-interface-controlled weapon systems. [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-SciTech-titles-rssr-6-30] At least one Strategy Boutique believes that Google is the most powerful brand on the planet. Internet-related homicide news. The Pentagon's blue-sky technology office has finally announced the three contenders who will take forward its Vulture project. eBay is considering flogging off Skype, the VoIP provider it paid $2.6bn for in 2005. And now you can get Skype on your iPhone. Time Machiner: Email someone in the Future. Ray Kurweil writes: "The exponential growth in computing speed will unlock a solution to global warming, unmask the secret to longer life and solve myriad other worldly conundrums." The US Geological Survey has just released its first ever statewide earthquake forecast for California, and the odds aren't great. The study finds a 99.7% chance that an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or greater will hit California by 2037, while the probability of a quake of magnitude 7.5 or greater is 46%. Is this the beginning of water wars? Rising oil prices lift all alt-energy boats. For proof, look no further than the fat $130 million investment scooped up by eSolar, a company whose basic solar power strategy - using sunlight-reflecting mirrors to generate steam - was all but abandoned in the 1980s, and has recently recently caught investors' attention again. Time Magazine on How to Win the War on Global Warming. A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using 'real-world,' concrete examples. Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination. That's the argument of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics. Bloch challenges the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as has been argued by some anthropologists. The latest online stampede: the rush to capitalize on the popularity of how-to videos on the Web. While microcelebrity is a positive alternative to mainstream media culture, it's important to turn a critical eye on online communities: "Internet culture can be very sexist, homophobic and racist... Popular blogs are all written by white guys ... and the most popular YouTube videos are of hot girls." - Alice Marwick, Saturday's keynote speaker at ROFLCon, a two-day internet culture conference [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] Gauging a Collider's Odds of Creating a Black Hole. - and while we' re at it, the stranglet disaster hypothesis. The world's largest laser system - the National Ignition Facility - is being built in California and officials say it will go online next year. Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist who tried to explain why it is so hard to make good weather forecasts and wound up unleashing a scientific revolution called chaos theory, died April 16 of cancer at his home in Cambridge. He was 90. Food miles don't feed climate change - meat does. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are very low, given the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of Earth. Charles Darwin's private papers online - the largest publication of Darwin's papers in history. A small but growing number of researchers (and not just the younger ones) have begun to carry out their work via the wide-open tools of Web 2.0. Their experiences to date suggest that this kind of Web-based "Science 2.0" is not only more collegial than traditional science but considerably more productive. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a technique for radically increasing the number of gigabytes that can be crammed into one square inch of data-storage chip, raising it from just 3.3GB to around 500,000GB. Your DNA falls into the realm of "the world's information," and it seems that Google, as part of its corporate mission, is making a play to organize that, too. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat - even if it has caused a "near civil war" within the organization. Melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warming water could lift sea levels by as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, displacing tens of millions of people. That's the conclusion of a new prediction of sea level rises that for the first time takes into account ice dynamics. Good news for rational, level-headed Virgoans everywhere: just as you might have predicted, scientists have found astrology to be rubbish. Scientists must work harder at making the public aware of the stark difference between good science and "denialist spin". That's the call from Professor Barry Brook, Director of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide, Australia. New research by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child's sex is associated with the mother's diet. 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The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the GSI accelerator facility to assess radiation risks that astronauts will be exposed to on a Mars mission. Once upon a time, time was different. Supernova explosions in the early universe appear to age more slowly than today's supernovae, as if time itself was running slower back then, according to a recent series of astronomical observations. If war ever breaks out in space it's not the loss of individual satellites that will do the damage, but the debris this produces. It will stay in orbit and go on harming satellites for decades, according to two studies presented at the American Physical Society meeting in St Louis, Missouri, last week. Stephen Hawking called for a massive investment in establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars in a lecture in honour of NASA's 50th anniversary. He has also been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says. The Future of Space Sports. Source: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), K. Noll (STScI), and J. Westphal (Caltech) Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. A series of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released from the several terabytes of archived raw images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to mark the 18th anniversary of the telescope's launch. This is the largest collection of Hubble images ever released to the public simultaneously. In this poster are the best 12 images of the collection. More.

Get the Sci-Tech-Business RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail.        Hypercube Courtesy: Wikimedia 100 miles per gallon. The age of killer robots is upon us. The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs. The number 6174. 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School There are over 2000 patents covering the atom bomb. Hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers [Externalrss-Complexity-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-VideoResources-titles-rssr-6-30] Plane Stupid and the spy who got thrown out into the cold. What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (1968) Why Techcrunch are suing Facebook for $25 Million in statutory damages. Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015. When does context matter in product evaluations? Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan thinks so. He says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a modular, high-magnification microscope attachment for cell phones. Emotiv, a company based in San Francisco, says its mind-control headsets will be on shelves later this year, along with a host of novel "biofeedback" games developed by its partners. Making a truly bionic arm requires far more than mechanical breakthroughs, better processing power, or longer batteries. None of these enable the prosthetic to respond to the wearer's intent with a natural limb's unthinking grace. Google's federal government sales team. Intel and Microsoft are planning to finance two groups of university researchers to start over and design a new generation of computing systems intended to break the industry out of a technological cul-de-sac that threatens to end decades of performance increases in computers. Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) printer can replicate and update itself. It can print its own parts, including updates, says Olliver, who is one of the core members of the RepRap team. "Even with a cutback in wasteful energy spending, our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy. If we try to restrain emissions without a fundamentally new set of technologies, we will end up stifling economic growth, including the development prospects for billions of people." - Economist, Jeffrey Sachs on the shift in the Global Warming debate. Tired of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? It may become worse. Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too, as they project them onto nearby walls or commuter-train seatbacks. Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser. A scrambled Rubik's cube can be solved in just 25 moves, regardless of the starting configuration. Tomas Rokicki, a Stanford-trained mathematician, has proven the new limit (down from 26 which was proved last year) using a neat piece of computer science. [Externalrss-PhysOrg-titles-rssl-6-30] [Externalrss-Slashdot-titles-rssr-6-30] A colourful American botanist, teacher, former biologist and sometime physicist says (in outline) that the Large Hadron Collider may rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum and so destroy the Earth. He wants the US government to act now and delay the LHC's startup while a new safety review is carried out. Physicists have turned on the world's most powerful laser, whose pulses are more intense than any known light source in the universe. Scientists have revealed what may well be the first pervasive 'rule' of evolution. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers have found evidence which suggests that evolution drives animals to become increasingly more complex. Gambling addicts don't learn from their mistakes, according to a study published in the open access journal Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health. The problem could be explained by a kind of mental rigidity that leads to harmful compulsive behaviour in sufferers. A new mathematical object was revealed yesterday during a lecture at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). Two researchers from the University of Bristol exhibited the first example of a third degree transcendental L-function. These L-functions encode deep underlying connections between many different areas of mathematics. Statistics show that monogamous men have the most children if they marry women younger than themselves. How much younger is the key question. Why some people remain calm in the face of life's niggles, while others 'flip' with little provocation. Apart from the human devastation, a small-scale nuclear war between India and Pakistan would destroy much of the ozone layer. A new "Darwin chip" could make evolution as easy as pressing play. Researchers have created an automated device that evolves a biological molecule on a chip filled with hundreds of miniature chambers. Snorting cocaine is an environmental crime whatever your views on drug use, scientists declared last week. "We have to bear in mind that the 80 tonnes of kerosene used for a one-way commercial flight to New York is equivalent to the annual biofuel yield from an area of approximately 30 football pitches..." - Dr Richard Pike, chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 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Earth-like rocky planets could be hiding just a few light years away in our closest stellar neighbours. It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought. Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. NASA engineers are testing out a giant, six-legged robot that could pick up and move a future Moon base thousands of kilometres across the lunar surface, allowing astronauts to explore much more than just the area around their landing site. NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus