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CLCAR 2011 begins in Colima, Mexico

"8 tutorials developed on Monday and Tuesday introduced the 2011 version of the LatinAmerican Conference on High Performance and Distributed Computing. The initiative of researchers, students, engineers and professors of several countries on LatinAm ...

Feed Item - 7 September 2011

Printing a Building

RedEaredSlider writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to push 3-D printing technology even further. Their goals: create whole working machines and perhaps even buildings. Thus far, 3D printing has been used to make s ...

Feed Item - 16 September 2011

Soyuz Capsule Return Marred By Mystery Communications Blackout

astroengine writes "An unexplained communications loss left flight controllers unable to speak with three space station crew returning to Earth over Kazakhstan during the last 15 minutes of their descent Thursday night. The first indication that the cap ...

Feed Item - 16 September 2011

Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week

El Puerco Loco writes with a followup to a story we discussed in May about the manslaughter charges facing six seismologists and one government official in Italy after an earthquake there killed 309 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings. The case is goi ...

Feed Item - 16 September 2011

An Easy Recipe For Quantum Dots

An anonymous reader writes "Semiconductor nanocrystals, better known as quantum dots, might find their way into solar cells, cancer tests, and all sorts of other products. Making them is surprisingly easy, if you have the right equipment, but it's not c ...

Feed Item - 17 September 2011

Purdue Students Building Moon Lander Rocket

tekgoblin sends words that a team of students at Purdue University are working on a project to build a rocket engine that could be used on a future Moon lander. Quoting: "Graduate students Thomas Feldman and Andrew Rettenmaier are part of a team devel ...

Feed Item - 16 September 2011

Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Based on a new analysis of old skulls, it now appears that modern humans may have interbred with some earlier hominid species, suggesting that human evolution took a more complex path than previously thought. The study opine ...

Feed Item - 16 September 2011

Israel To Join CERN As First Non-European Member

First time accepted submitter WorldPiece writes "More accurately, first non-European full member. This comes with some opposition from groups pushing to boycott Israel academia in response to the Israeli government's policies. 'It is a vital part of our ...

Feed Item - 18 September 2011

Inspector General Investigated For Muzzling Inconvenient Science

Layzej writes "Federal biologist Charles Monnett was placed on administrative leave July 18 pending final results of an inspector general's investigation into integrity issues. The investigation originally focused on a 2006 note published in Polar Biolo ...

Feed Item - 17 September 2011

NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite

schwit1 writes "The Big Bird, formally known as the KH-9 Hexagon satellite, was first placed in orbit in 1971 after its development by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), making it one of the most advanced spy satellites of its time. It is believe ...

Feed Item - 17 September 2011