Discovery makes one final flight but we must move
on.

post from Bad Astronomy on 17 April 2012 12:15:57 PM. © Bad Astronomy

This morning, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery took one last flight. Mated on top of a specially-adapted 747, it flew from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Dulles airport just west of Washington DC.My brother-in-law works in DC and got this[...]

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Drug To Diagnose Alzheimers Disease Receives FDA
Approval

post from Singularity Hub on 17 April 2012 11:24:59 AM. © Singularity Hub

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]

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A warm anniversary for Spitzer

post from Bad Astronomy on 17 April 2012 11:13:17 AM. © Bad Astronomy

In 2003, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope launched into space to begin a mission to observe the heavens in infrared. That kind of light is emitted by warm objects, so its main imaging camera — called IRAC, for Infrared Array Camera — had[...]

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24 Hour Planet

post from Supernova Condensate on 17 April 2012 11:13:08 AM. © Supernova Condensate

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TED: Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll -
Drew Curtis (2012)

post from TEDTalks (video) on 17 April 2012 11:00:43 AM. © TEDTalks (video)

Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, "...for the creation and distribution of news releases via email." Along the way he shares some nutty statistics about the growing legal problem of frivolous patents.

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Orangutan nest building shows high degree of
sophistication

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Orangutans may be smarter than previously thought if a new study into the sophisticated way they build nests is any indication.

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April 17, 1790: America Loses One of Its Most
Inventive Minds

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 17 April 2012 10:17:29 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Wired Top Stories: Ben Franklin dies, and America loses one of its most inventive minds. Read the whole article

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Is philosophy science

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In general, questions such as ?Is (subject X) a science?? are not very useful. After all, what does it matter what label you assign to something? In certain situations though, the label matters quite a lot.

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Hot New Manufacturing Tool: A
Temperature-Controlled Microbe

From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: Many manufacturing processes rely on microorganisms to perform tricky chemical transformations or make substances from simple starting materials. The authors of a study appearing in mBio, the online open-access journal of the Am

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The molecule that made the universe

Story Source In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, UA researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - or at least the hot and fiery bits of it.

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