Singularity Hub Accelerated Tech News Part IV
Transplants, Theaters, and Tubes!

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Screw trilogies, our news show is now officially a series. Today we’re launching episode four of Accelerated Tech News, the [...]

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Pursuit of Light

post from Bad Astronomy on 03 May 2012 02:00:42 PM. © Bad Astronomy

I don’t think I need to tell you much about this. Set it to the highest resolution, make it full screen, sit back, and watch this NASA promotional video called "Pursuit of Light".[A huge 3420 x 1152 pixel version is available for download[...]

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Saturn, Moon, Star to Offer Triple Night Sky
Treat

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 03 May 2012 12:24:36 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Discovery News - Top Stories: Look toward the southeast on Thursday night (May 3) about an hour after sunset, and you will behold a rare and beautiful sight, a triple conjunction of the moon, the planet Saturn, and the bright star Spica. Read the whole article

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Nanofiber Paper is Waterproof, Magnetic

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From Discovery News - Top Stories: For those who still use paper, this version is waterproof, magnetic, antibacterial and recyclable. Read the whole article

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Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online
Courses

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 03 May 2012 12:07:29 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From The New York Times: In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans - one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to

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Straightening up the cosmos

post from Bad Astronomy on 03 May 2012 12:00:34 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Oh, what’s an astronomer to do?Faced with a messy sky, stars scattered here and there, faint and bright, how can we ever measure them?Perhaps we should turn to artists. Urs Wehrli has an idea of how to fix this situation. Faced with this picture:He[...]

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Mimicking mussels

post from Sciencebase Science Blog on 03 May 2012 11:53:08 AM. © Sciencebase Science Blog

UV and NMR spectroscopy have been used to characterise a novel adhesive that functions in marine environments by mimicking the notoriously strong, natural glue used by mussels to cling to rocks and ships’ hulls. via Making unstickable adhesives: Mussel power – Ezine – spectroscopyNOW.com. Related Posts:Zebra mussels poisonous Inland lakes in Michigan that have been [...]

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Mars Rover Starts its 9th Year

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From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ago. Read the whole article

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Toyota RAV4 EV to Make Public Debut Next Week

From CNET News: Toyota, a company known to sing the praises of hybrids, next week will debut the RAV4 EV developed with Tesla Motors to test market demand for electric vehicles. Read the whole article

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TSMC Ramps 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 Chip To 3.1GHz,
Gives Your Desktop Jitters

From Engadget: We know TSMC's energy-miser 28-nanometer manufacturing process has a lot of headroom, but the company just ratcheted expectations up by a few notches. Lab workers at Taiwan's semiconductor giant have successfully run a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor at 3.1GHz under norm

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