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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
Graphene aerogel takes world’s lightest material crown
A new graphene aerogel created at China’s Zhejiang University is the world’s lightest material, with a density of 0.16 mg/cm3. Original post on gizmag.com Comments on reddit.com
BBC News – Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis banned for Nazi salute
A Greek footballer is banned for life from playing for the national team after making a Nazi salute to celebrate a winning goal. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Extinct frog hops back into the gene pool
In what may be considered an early Easter miracle, an extinct species of native frog has begun its rise from the dead. Original post on smh.com.au Comments on reddit.com
Civil engineering: Concrete, heal thyself!
IT’S useful stuff, concrete, but it does have drawbacks. One of the biggest is that it is not as weatherproof as the stone it often substitutes. Salt and ice… Original post on economist.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
Diamond defects shrink MRI to the nanoscale: Nature News – Comment
Technique could be sensitive enough to detect structure of a single protein. Original post on nature.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
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Hair and Eye Color Can Now Be Determined for Ancient Human Skeletons – Surprising Science
A new method based on DNA forensics can tell us about the appearances of those who lived long ago Original post on smithsonianmag.com Comments on reddit.com
Specialized TSA team makes presence known in Emeryville – abc7news.com
The TSA showed up unannounced in Emeryville Wednesday to let potential troublemakers know they’re keeping an eye on the rails. Original post on abclocal.go.com Comments on reddit.com
The Optical Society – Optics and Photonics News – Policy
The Optical Society of America’s news and policy section contains information designed to keep reporters, OSA members and the public informed of happenings at OSA, in government programs and in the optics community. Original post on osa.org Comments on reddit.com
Wrinkles Help Fingers Get a Grip – ScienceNOW
Wrinkles Help Fingers Get a Grip – ScienceNOW Original post on sciencemag.org 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
China Focus: Chinese scientists find evidence for speed of gravity – Xinhua – English.news.cn
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
Research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one’s IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly misleading
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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
Laser pulse makes insulator conduct like a metal
Ultrafast switching could lead to faster circuits Original post on physicsworld.com Comments on reddit.com
The first flexible, fiber-optic solar cell that can be woven into clothes
An international team of engineers, physicists, and chemists have created the first fiber-optic solar cell. These fibers are thinner than… Original post on extremetech.com Comments on reddit.com
Police: Chiefs player kills girlfriend then kills self
Police said Chiefs player Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend Saturday morning before driving to a practice facility at Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself. Original post on kctv5.com Comments on reddit.com