Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity
Departs Winter Site for Field of Veins

post from Planetary Society Blog on 09 September 2012 09:56:25 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity strolled out of her winter haven this May to continue the expedition around Endeavour Crater, roving into yet another Martian spring.

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Techs new wave, driven by data

post from Top stories on 09 September 2012 09:36:02 PM. © Top stories

Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s and smartphones in the last five years.

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Newer isn't always better

post from Top stories on 09 September 2012 09:11:40 PM. © Top stories

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Tiny sea creatures called rhabdopleurids reside on the ocean floor, building homes of collagen on the shells of dead clams. Rhabdopleurid colonies are small, and the critters are by no means the dominant animals in their ecosystem.

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Giant balloon of liquid hot magma inflates under
Santorini

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A new survey suggests that the chamber of molten rock beneath Santorini's volcano expanded 10-20 million cubic meters, up to 15 times the size of London's Olympic Stadium, between January 2011 and April 2012.

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The New Season: How Digital Is Changing the
Nature of Movies

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 09 September 2012 06:21:04 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From NYT > Technology: IN the beginning there was light that hit a strip of flexible film mechanically running through a camera. For most of movie history this is how moving pictures were created: light reflected off people and things would filter through a camera and physically transfor

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Breaking the Ice: Russian Nuclear-Powered
Ice-Breakers

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 09 September 2012 03:15:44 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Scientific American: Russia's rapidly expanding nuclear industry has set it sights on the freezing waters of Arctic basin with an ambitious goal to build the world s largest universal nuclear icebreaker. Read the whole article

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Airships Becoming Hot Product for the Military

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 09 September 2012 03:05:19 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From DVICE: It's been a long while since airships ruled the skies, but like all things vintage and nostalgic, they might be making a comeback. Of course, this time it's about more than nostalgia. A company in Southern California is building airships for the military to transport cargo an

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Fungi treatment makes a modern violin sound like
a Stradiavarius

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A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.

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Our Curiosity

When Forest City Gear first aspired to be world-class gear manufacturers, they couldn?t have imagined that someday they would surpass that boundary. Perhaps universe-class best describes them now?

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Do pictures of food create feelings of hunger

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Max Planck researchers have proven something scientifically for the first time that laypeople have always known: the mere sight of delicious food stimulates the appetite.

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