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FRIDAY 14. JANUARY 2011


Blog - How Fruit Flies Could Improve Wireless Networking

The way the insects' nervous systems form provides insights for how to structure networks. Fruit flies have long been a favorite research subject for biologists, but now they're unlocking secrets for computer scientists as well. Specifically, researchers used insights into how a fruit fly's nervous system develops to design a new algorithm that could prove useful for wireless...


THURSDAY 13. JANUARY 2011



WEDNESDAY 12. JANUARY 2011


Consumer Genetic Tests Have Little Impact

They lead people neither to make healthier lifestyle choices nor to order more medical tests. Ever since direct-to-consumer genetic tests—which analyze a set of genetic markers across an individual's genome in order to predict his or her risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, prostate cancer, and other common diseases—became available...


TUESDAY 11. JANUARY 2011



MONDAY 10. JANUARY 2011


Blog - Artificial Life Shares Biosignature With Terrestrial Cousins

A biosignature common to both life on Earth and digital life could help to spot extra terrestrial organisms, say computer scientists In the early 1960s, the independent scientist James Lovelock worked as a consultant for NASA developing ways to analyse extraterrestrial atmospheres. This work led him to the dramatic conclusion that life would leave an indelible stamp on the chemical make up of any...


SATURDAY 8. JANUARY 2011



FRIDAY 7. JANUARY 2011


Blog - Interstellar Travel Not Possible Before 2200AD, Suggests Study

A new estimate of the amount of energy needed to visit the stars suggests we won't have enough for at least another two centuries How soon could humanity launch a mission to the stars? That's the question considered today by Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project and founder of the Tau Zero Foundation which supports the science of interstellar...


THURSDAY 6. JANUARY 2011


Blog - CES: The Future of Interfaces

Say goodbye the one-size-fits-all approach to interacting with computers. The mouse and keyboard have been how nearly everyone has interacted with computers since Apple and Microsoft brought them to the mainstream in the mid 1980s. There have been periodic attempts to replace these devices, mainly on the grounds that because they are so old, there must be something better by now....


WEDNESDAY 5. JANUARY 2011


Blog - Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft

Using a plasma sheath as a giant radio receiver should solve the communication problems that bedevil hypersonic planes and re-entering spacecraft, say Russian scientists When spacecraft return to Earth, one of the tensest parts of the mission is the radio black out that occurs as the vehicle re-enters the atmosphere. Travelling at hypersonic speeds of between Mach 8 and 15, the spacecraft heats...


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MONDAY 3. JANUARY 2011