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Wi-Fi, Now Available On the ISS
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Grant Henninger writes "Rejoice! The next time you have an extra $20 million and decide to visit the International Space Station you won't need to leave the window to tell all your friends how cool it is. The ISS now has a new Wi-Fi network, so all you'll need to do is fire up Twitterrific and announce how much better you are than your Earth-based friends."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/2255254&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/06/2255254"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/2255254&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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timothy
2008-09-07T00:08:00+00:00
wireless
shipping-not-included
hardware
109
109,106,89,59,24,18,10
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/2255254&from=rss
Identifying a Culprit In a Bloodbath
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/DHHWaLp-tkE/article.pl
worromot writes "A group of geneticists published a method to determine if a given individual's DNA is present in a mixture (e.g., in a pool of blood on a carpet). An individual's DNA can comprise less than 1% of the mixture. (The article is in open access on PLoS Genetics website.) While this is a potential boon for forensics, there are more immediate worries about the privacy of the participants of the genetics studies that had been under way for many years. As Science magazine writes, 'The discovery that a type of genetic data that is widely shared and often posted online can be traced back to individuals has prompted the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust to strip some genetic data from their publicly accessible Web sites and NIH to recommend that other institutions do the same.' The gravest worry was that an individual who had someone's genetic code could determine, based on the pooled data, whether the person participated in a disease study and whether they were in the disease group, or thereby glean private health information. NIH plans to ask institutions that have posted pooled data on their own Web sites to take these down, too."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/1943215&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/06/1943215"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/1943215&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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timothy
2008-09-06T20:29:00+00:00
privacy
sounds-utterly-foolproof
yro
39
39,36,25,19,8,4,2
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/1943215&from=rss
Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Encounters Rare Asteroid
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/W0-NqhQ0n5M/article.pl
Riding with Robots writes "Yesterday the robotic spacecraft Rosetta, on its way to a distant encounter with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, flew by the asteroid 'Steins,' which is roughly 4.6 kilometers wide. Steins is one of the relatively rare E-type asteroids. The mission team live-blogged throughout the day, and a press conference with the first pictures will be available soon." Rosetta's flyby took it to within 800 kilometers of Steins while both objects were roughly 360 million kilometers from Earth. According to Rosetta's fact sheet (PDF), the craft will next swing by Earth in 2009 and take a look at another asteroid in 2010 on its way to the rendezvous with the comet in 2014.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/0325232&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/06/0325232"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/0325232&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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Soulskill
2008-09-06T12:13:00+00:00
space
needle-in-a-hay
science
37
37,33,27,19,10,8,6
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/0325232&from=rss
NASA To Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/f7_bQBt_aig/article.pl
SpaceAdmiral brings news that NASA will be launching a telescope next April, called Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation (SUMI), which will examine what is called the "transition region" between the Sun's corona and the chromosphere. Scientists have studied characteristics of the Sun around this region before, but never within it. NASA notes: "It is a place in the sun's atmosphere, about 5000 km above the stellar surface, where magnetic fields overwhelm the pressure of matter and seize control of the sun's gases. It's where solar flares explode, where coronal mass ejections begin their journey to Earth, where the solar wind is mysteriously accelerated to a million mph. It is, in short, the birthplace of space weather."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/2223256&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/05/2223256"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/2223256&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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Soulskill
2008-09-05T23:03:00+00:00
space
don't-forget-your-metaphasic-shields
science
73
73,68,55,38,10,8,5
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/2223256&from=rss
Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/ucaV66N9eRk/article.pl
Matt Amato writes "With the recent discussion of the ISS having to dodge some space junk, many people's attention has once again focused on the amount of stuff in orbit around our planet. What many people don't know is that USSTRATCOM tracks and publishes a list of over 13,000 objects that they currently monitor, including active/retired satellites and debris. This data is meaningless to most people, but thanks to Analytical Graphics, it has now been made accessible free of charge to anyone with a copy of Google Earth. By grabbing the KMZ, you can not only view all objects tracked in real-time, but you can also click on them to get more information on the specific satellite, including viewing its orbit trajectory. It's an excellent educational tool for the space-curious. Disclaimer: I not only work for Analytical Graphics, but I'm the one that wrote this tool as a demo."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/1231228&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/05/1231228"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/1231228&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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kdawson
2008-09-05T13:12:00+00:00
space
bejeweled-coterie
science
188
188,184,153,123,51,29,23
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/1231228&from=rss
Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/87nZDRHBvtY/article.pl
Anti-Globalism writes "Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/0138237&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/05/0138237"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/0138237&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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timothy
2008-09-05T05:29:00+00:00
biotech
can-we-say-frickin'-amazing?
science
372
372,363,291,228,76,45,31
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/0138237&from=rss
Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/4v05Zp6cwXw/article.pl
Death Metal Maniac writes "Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated. The skeletons' skulls hint that the people may not be of northern Asian descent, which would contradict the dominant theory of New World settlement. 'The shape of the skulls has led us to believe that Eva and the others have more of an affinity with people from South Asia than North Asia,' González explained."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1527244&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/04/1527244"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1527244&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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CmdrTaco
2008-09-04T16:25:00+00:00
science
god-is-burying-tests-again
science
447
447,430,367,259,77,47,29
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1527244&from=rss
Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/hWmQntuwbjQ/article.pl
eldavojohn writes "Everyone's got their favorite theories of Dinosaur extinction, but new speculation is rampant in a book that gives cause to believe it may have been disease-carrying insects. Due to the length of their slow and eventual extinction (the 'K-T Boundary'), it is argued that this would more likely be attributed to the spread of disease and the rise of parasitic insects like ticks or biting flies. Are our immune systems the only reason any animals survived?"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1439224&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/04/1439224"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1439224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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CmdrTaco
2008-09-04T15:00:00+00:00
earth
so-did-my-cooking
news
264
264,261,212,156,61,36,22
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1439224&from=rss
Physicists Discover "Doubly Strange" Particle
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/n3i4-v98B-M/article.pl
Tsalg writes "Physicists have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and weighs about six times the proton mass. This is probably one of the last noticeable sub-atomic discoveries made somewhere else than at CERN since LHC is about to start the hunt for the Higgs particle that remains elusive even for the experiment that just discovered the Omega-sub-b."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1239203&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/04/1239203"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1239203&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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CmdrTaco
2008-09-04T13:28:00+00:00
science
and-it-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand
science
258
258,257,201,153,62,41,35
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/1239203&from=rss
Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/fuvifU6PxlM/article.pl
FiReaNGeL writes "An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope. The target of the observations was the source known as Sagittarius A* ("A-star"), long thought to mark the position of a black hole whose mass is 4 million times greater than the sun. Though Sagittarius A* was discovered 30 years ago, the new observations for the first time have an angular resolution, or ability to observe small details, that is matched to the size of the event horizon."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/0020229&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/04/0020229"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/0020229&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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samzenpus
2008-09-04T07:04:00+00:00
nasa
old-bob
science
180
180,170,148,121,59,36,23
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/0020229&from=rss
Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/6lUlg2quvyM/article.pl
knarfling writes "CNN is reporting that a chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. Just last month 21 square miles of ice broke free from the Markham Ice Shelf. Scientists are saying that Ellesmere Island has now lost more than 10 times the ice that was predicted earlier this summer. How long before the fabled Northwest Passage is a reality?"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/2223208&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/03/2223208"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/2223208&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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samzenpus
2008-09-03T23:09:00+00:00
earth
getting-warmer
news
714
714,710,585,452,148,80,48
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/2223208&from=rss
"Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/qEltuEZLBIY/article.pl
eldavojohn writes "The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (which was partially funded by Gates & Co.) announced a world record casting for its single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blanks, cast at the University of Arizona. From the announcement: 'The Mirror Lab team opened the furnace for a close-up look at the cooled 51,900-pound mirror blank, which consists of an outer 27.5-foot diameter (8.4-meter) primary mirror and an inner 16.5-foot (5-meter) third mirror cast in one mold. It is the first time a combined primary and tertiary mirror has been produced on such a large scale.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/2346240&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/02/2346240"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/2346240&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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kdawson
2008-09-03T00:25:00+00:00
science
billion-pixels-of-goodness
science
114
114,109,87,65,30,24,10
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/2346240&from=rss
"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/UR-83KjELoQ/article.pl
Lord Satri writes "Well, almost. Google signed an exclusivity deal with GeoEye regarding GeoEye-1, the most advanced high-resolution, civil, remote-sensing satellite to date. This must be annoying for other high-resolution, remote-sensing data users since Google already has an exclusivity deal in place with DigitalGlobe, the other major civil satellite imagery provider. From the CNet article: 'Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery... in its Google Maps and Google Earth product. And as a little icing on the cake, Google's logo is on the side of the rocket set to launch the 4,300-pound satellite in six days from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 41 centimeters... Google, though, is permitted to use data only with a resolution of 50 cm because of the terms of GeoEye's license with the US government.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/210233&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/02/210233"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/210233&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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kdawson
2008-09-02T21:53:00+00:00
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Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US
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During the Olympics we discussed the international monitoring effort as China shut down factories and curtailed automobile travel in an attempt to reduce pollution. Now reader Anti-Globalism sends in a story that reveals that monitoring effort to be ongoing, with a bigger mandate: assessing the impact of China's pollution on the US. In fact the problem is bigger still because, as one researcher put it, "It's one atmosphere." Scientists are finding that pollution from, for example, Europe can travel right around the globe in three weeks. "By some estimates more than 10 billion pounds of airborne pollutants from Asia — ranging from soot to mercury to carbon dioxide to ozone — reach the US annually. The problem is only expected to worsen: Some Chinese officials have warned that pollution in their country could quadruple in the next 15 years. While some scientists are less certain, others say the Asian pollution could destabilize weather patterns across the North Pacific, mask the effects of global warming, reduce rainfall in the American West and compromise efforts to meet air-pollution standards."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/2024257&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/02/2024257"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/2024257&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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kdawson
2008-09-02T21:07:00+00:00
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Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People
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Calopteryx sends in a New Scientist summary of research from Sweden pointing toward the existence of a gene that influences monogamy in men. (The article doesn't mention women, and the study subjects were all men at least 5 years into a heterosexual relationship.) "There has been speculation about the role of the hormone vasopressin in humans ever since we discovered that variations in where receptors for the hormone are expressed makes prairie voles strictly monogamous but meadow voles promiscuous; vasopressin is related to the 'cuddle chemical' oxytocin. Now it seems variations in a section of the gene coding for a vasopressin receptor in people help to determine whether men are serial commitment-phobes or devoted husbands."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/1710224&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/02/1710224"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/02/1710224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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kdawson
2008-09-02T18:56:00+00:00
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