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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

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

astroengine writes "The 'core accretion' model for planetary creation has been challenged (or, at least, modified) by a new theory from University of Leicester astrophysicists Seung-Hoon Cha and Sergei Nayakshin (abstract). Rather than small rocky world ...

Feed Item - 17 September 2011

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

rallymatte writes "A team at Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has managed to create artificial blood vessels with a 3D printer that may come to be used for transplants of lab-created organs. From the article: 'To print something as small and complex as a ...

Feed Item - 18 September 2011

The Bad Astronomer writes "Science educator James Drake took 600 still photos from the International Space Station as it orbited the Earth, and created a fantastic time-lapse animation out of them. It must be seen to be appreciated; storms and cities fl ...

Feed Item - 18 September 2011

bs0d3 writes "Dr. Patrice Nordmann has disclosed the results of a small study that looked for resistant bacteria in seagull poop landing on Miami Beach in Florida. During April 2010, they collected 52 stool samples and found within them 83 isolates of g ...

Feed Item - 18 September 2011

In the 5 years that I have been working in distributed computing never have I been so excited as the Launch of the new VENUS-C Pilots tomorrow 9 June. The pilots have received seed funds to run their apps on the Cloud following an overwhelming respo ...

Feed Item - 8 June 2011

SuperComputing 2011 is in Seattle this year and I think it’s no surprise to anyone that this year will be heavily influenced by the success of GPU-based supercomputers.  To further emphasize this, they keynote will be presented by the man driving most o ...

Feed Item - 6 September 2011

In an amazing detailed post over at Impulse Adventure, they break down all the different settings of JPEG images and found one interesting little quirk in how Photoshop handles JPEG Images.  The moral of the story: Never use JPEG Quality 7 .What many ...

Feed Item - 6 September 2011