University of Michigan News Service – Nano-breakthrough: Solving the case of the herringbone crystal

Leading nanoscientists created beautiful, tiled patterns with flat nanocrystals, but they were left with a mystery: Why did some sets of crystals arrange themselves in an alternating, herringbone styl   Original post on umich.edu    Comments on reddit.com   

Megaupload Launches Frontal Attack on White House Corruption

Megaupload’s legal team are not restricting their fight with the U.S. Government only to the courts. Today they published a detailed white paper accusing the White House of selling out to corporate interests, particularly Hollywood. “The message is clear. The White House is for sale. More and more of our rights are eroding away to protect the interests of large corporations and their billionaire shareholders,” Dotcom summarizes.   Original post on torrentfreak.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Escherichia coli bacteria produce diesel on demand

It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology still faces many significant commercialisation challenges, the diesel, produced by special strains of E. coli bacteria,…   Original post on phys.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Rocket powered by nuclear fusion could send humans to Mars

Human travel to Mars has long been the unachievable dangling carrot for space programs. Now, astronauts could be a step closer to our nearest planetary neighbor through a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion, the same energy that powers the sun and stars.   Original post on phys.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Blow for ‘dark flow’ in Planck’s new view of the cosmos – space – 03 April 2013

The best map yet of light from the infant universe seems to rule out the strange motion of galaxy clusters, knocking down one sign of a multiverse   Original post on newscientist.com    Comments on reddit.com   

College Park students fly human-powered helicopter

University of Maryland students have been trying for years to win a coveted award, the $250,000 American Helicopter Society Sikorsky Prize, which has gone unclaimed since its inception in 1980. It requires their helicopter be in the air for at least 60 seconds, while staying within a small area, while reaching at least 10 feet of height.   Original post on baltimoresun.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission

There are no signs that The Pirate Bay will disappear anytime soon, but pirate preppers anticipating such a doomsday scenario can now download an updated and improved copy of the world’s most resilient BitTorrent site. A backup of all crucial data has been packed into a tiny 75 megabyte archive, small enough to carry with you at all times. The archive of more than 2 million magnet links has received a seal of approval from The Pirate Bay team and is now up for grabs.   Original post on torrentfreak.com    Comments on reddit.com   

David Beckham to give his £3m Paris St-Germain wage to children’s charity after completing five-month deal

David Beckham will not earn a penny from Paris St-Germain during his five-month contract, a source close to the former England captain insisted on Thursday night.   Original post on telegraph.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

Coming Out of the Closet May Be Good For Your Health – Surprising Science

For lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals, a new study suggests that coming out provides a tangible health benefit, both mentally and biologically   Original post on smithsonianmag.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’ – National

An already emotional case became that much more complex today when a WikiLeaks-style site dumped new information about football boosters, the town sheriff, and the alleged   Original post on theatlanticwire.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Crime-Ridden Oakland Lays Off 200 Police Officers While Giving $17 Million To Pro Sports Teams

Cities and states have seen their budgets decimated during the Great Recession, as revenue plunged due to dropping home prices and high unemployment. They had to make some desperate choices to save funds, including laying off scores of public safety workers (or even turning off their streetlights). Oakland was no different, laying off 200 police [...]   Original post on thinkprogress.org    Comments on reddit.com   

SEAL Team Six member killed in Afghanistan rescue

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon official says a Navy SEAL was killed during the rescue mission in Afghanistan that freed an American doctor abducted by the Taliban.Killed in the weekend raid was a member of SEAL Team Six, the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden last year. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not allowed to release the information on the record.Officials in Afghanistan say Dr. Dilip Joseph of Colorado Springs, Colo., was rescued early Sunday in eastern Afghanistan. The military says the adviser for Colorado Springs-based Morning Star Development was abducted last week and rescued after intelligence showed he was in imminent danger of injury or possible death.The Pentagon has not identified the SEAL Team Six member who was killed.   Original post on ap.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Research pair finds global warming matched predictions from 1990

(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers has found that an estimate made in 1990 by a team of global scientists regarding how much temperatures would rise due to increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is very close to what actually happened. The two, David Frame, of New Zealand’s Victoria…   Original post on phys.org    Comments on reddit.com