Home, from space: Earth Illuminated

post from Bad Astronomy on 10 August 2012 02:30:51 PM. © Bad Astronomy

I’ve been posting a lot about Mars lately – and stay tuned, there’s plenty more! – but let’s not forget the first planet we ever viewed from space: our own. Here’s another lovely time lapse video of Earth made from[...]

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US nuke plant delay fails to solve storage
conundrum

post from New Scientist - Environment on 10 August 2012 01:16:00 PM. © New Scientist - Environment

No new plants can be constructed, or licenses renewed, until waste storage is addressed ? but available solutions are thin on the ground

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US nuke plant delay fail to solve storage
conundrum

post from New Scientist - Environment on 10 August 2012 01:16:00 PM. © New Scientist - Environment

No new plants can be constructed, or licenses renewed, until waste storage is addressed ? but available solutions are thin on the ground

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Monosodium glutamate, deceived wisdom

post from Sciencebase Science Blog on 10 August 2012 12:52:11 PM. © Sciencebase Science Blog

It sounds like a nasty chemical and people have been worrying about it for year. MSG. Monosodium glutamate. But the monosdium, that’s just sodium ions from common salt and the glutamate is just the soluble form of the essential protein-making amino acid, glutamic acid. The question of its safety arose in a Facebook discussion but [...]

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StethoCloud The $20 Stethoscope Attachment For
Smartphones To Diagnose Pneumonia

post from Singularity Hub on 10 August 2012 12:08:24 PM. © Singularity Hub

What do you get when you combine smartphones, cloud computing, and digital medicine? A new era of healthcare that is [...]

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An unreal Mars skyline

post from Bad Astronomy on 10 August 2012 11:59:25 AM. © Bad Astronomy

Well folks, it’s been a while, so it’s time for a good ol’ fashioned BA debunking.This morning I got an email from BABloggee Joshua Frost as well as a note on Twitter from scifi author Diane Duane telling me about a picture making the[...]

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How to Measure Consciousness

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 10 August 2012 11:55:40 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From New Scientist - Online news: An intriguing new way to grasp what consciousness is, based on computational theory, and the perilous process of mapping the icy North American coastline Read the whole article

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Fabrication Method Produces High-Energy Batteries
That Flex

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 10 August 2012 11:55:13 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News: Materials: Process allows researchers to use high-quality materials common in rigid batteries Read the whole article

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Robot Will Harvest Your Crops

From Design News: A multinational engineering project aims to create an intelligent robotics platform that can identify and harvest specific types of crops to help foster sustainable agriculture. Read the whole article

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Russia Plans to Field the T-99, a Radically New
Main Battle Tank by 2015

From Defense Update: The Russian Army is planning to begin modernize its armored and mechanized forces beginning in 2015, fielding a new family of vehicles comprising the new Armata main battle tank, Kurganets-25 armored infantry fighting vehicles, and various support platforms. Rea

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