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New technique can move fragile quantum data between atoms without destroying it
U.S. Launches Advanced Spy Satellite
A new spy satellite was launched January 18th at 9:47PM EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Space in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The new National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload on the Delta 4-Heavy is a 5-to-6 ton eavesdropping spacecraft with a high tech deployable antenna as wide as 350 feet will greatly enhance the capability for the U.S. to listen in on communications from hostile regions such as Iran and Iraq. The U.S. government hopes that the new satellite will provide them greater intel on Al Qaeda operations in Iran and Afghanistan.
Engineering algae to make fuel instead of sugar
PhysOrg.com: In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel. The researchers explain a way to genetically modify the tiny organisms, so as to minimize the number of chlorophyll molecules needed to harvest light without compromising the photosynthesis process in the cells. With this modification, instead of making more sugar molecules, the microalgae could be producing hydrogen or hydrocarbons.
More than 2T tons of ice melted in artic since '03 - Yahoo! News
More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. News, Headlines and Latest Stories on Yahoo! News
Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again - MIT News Office
The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable, according to a team led by MIT researchers.
NASA's Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.
CarTel personalizes commutes by using WiFi to network cars - MIT News Office
Dozens of cars in the Boston area are testing the latest generation of an MIT mobile-sensor network for traffic analysis that could help drivers cut their commuting time and alert them to potential engine problems.
Co founder of Internet, Vint Cerf, and all 2008 US Nobel Laureates in Science endorse Obama
Single-pixel camera has multiple futures: Terahertz version adds new potential to unique invention
PhysOrg.com: A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine.
'Intelligent' computers put to the test |
Technology |
The Observer
Six computers face interrogation to answer question of whether machines can think
Einstein fridge design can help global cooling |
Science |
The Observer
Scientists relaunch a 1930 invention that uses no electricity and would reduce greenhouse gases
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