Super Secret Spy Satellite Soars Spectacularly to
Space on Delta 4 Heavy Booster

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From Universe Today: An upgraded Delta 4 Heavy rocket and super secret spy satellite roar off pad 37 on June 29, 2012 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Ken KremerA super secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) soared spectacularly to space today (June 29) ab

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'Leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across
Web

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From Wired Top Stories: Reddit, Mozilla, and several other big name web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software unpinning their online operations choked on the "leap second" that was added to the world's atomic clocks. Read the whole article

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Education is Undergoing a Startling Revolution
Lets Support it!

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This post is written by Rob Nail – CEO of Singularity University, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, who loves to surf and [...]

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Mercedes Reportedly Scraps Hybrid Plan for
B-Class E-Cell Plus EV, Going All-In On Electrons With Tesla

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 01 July 2012 02:03:49 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Engadget: Mercedes' plans for a B-Class E-Cell Plus plug-in hybrid might headed for a change of direction. Take this all with a spoonful of NaCl, but looks like an all-electric powertrain made by none other than Tesla will be installed in the EV. As Autoblog Green notes, an anonymou

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New Fuel Cell Keeps On Going Even Once the
Fuel's Dried Up

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From Engadget: Vanadium oxide seems to be the go-to guy in power storage right now. A new solid-oxide fuel cell -- developed at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences -- that can also store energy like a battery, also uses the stuff. In the new cell, by adding a VOx layer i

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How to Make Anything Disappear

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From Discover Technology: Back in 2006 Harry Potter was all the rage in the engineering world. That year a team at Duke University built the first rudimentary device for hiding objects, akin to the boy wizard's invisibility cloak. But in technology as in the movies, Harry Potter is now o

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Dinosaurs were warm-blooded reptiles

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The journal Nature has published a study analysing the lines of arrested growth (LAG) in the bones of around a hundred ruminants, representative of the specific and ecological diversity of that group of mammals.

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Parents determine whether kids are active or
couch potatoes

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Researchers at Oregon State University aren't telling you anything new when they pile on modern children and complains they are increasingly sedentary, spending too much time sitting and looking at electronic screens.

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China set to launch bigger space program

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Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2012
China will deploy bigger spacecraft for longer missions following the success of its Shenzhou 9 voyage, allowing it to build a manned space station and potentially put a man on the moon, experts said. The 13-day voyage of Shenzhou-9, which returned to Earth on Friday, was China's longest-ever space mission and included the nation's first woman astronaut among its three crew members. In a

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Piano sonata in the key of Kepler-11

Via reddit (if you’re a redditor, go there and upboat!) I found a very interesting use of astronomical data in music. The composer took the orbital information from the six-planet system called Kepler 11 and codified it into musical notes! From the[...]

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