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Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization - Slashdot - 0 views

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 14 Feb 11
     
    For Giusy...

Nano flapping wing MAV by Aerovironment (DARPA-funded) - 6 views

started by Guido de Croon on 18 Feb 11 no follow-up yet
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IBM Patenting HAL-Like Stuffed Animal Toys - Slashdot - 3 views

news.slashdot.org/...g-HAL-Like-Stuffed-Animal-Toys technology inf AI bio
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  • LeopoldS on 07 Mar 11
     
    should we buy this to educate behaviour at ACT meetings ... or only for our babies :-) 
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William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission - Slashdot - 1 views

idle.slashdot.org/...ew-for-Final-Discovery-Mission Space shuttle sci-fi Star Trek fun
shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The Space Shuttle Discovery left the International Space Station this morning for the last time. To commemorate the ship's accomplishments over 27 years of service, the crew was greeted to a morning wake-up message from Capt. Kirk. "Space, the final frontier," Shatner said in a prerecorded message. "These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission: to seek out new science, to build new outposts, to bring nations together on the final frontier, to boldly go and do what no spacecraft has done before."
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Mar 11
     
    here's a recording of the transmission: http://ia600406.us.archive.org/13/items/STS-133/03-07-11_STS-133_FD12_Crew_Wakeup.mp3 to quote from the thread at reddit: "When the space shuttle first flew, 55 americans were being held hostage in the embassy in Iran, and Ronald Reagan had just become president. That same year Prince Charles would marry Lady Diana, the HIV virus would be first identified, Post-It notes were invented, and a small company called Microsoft released it's new operating system MS-DOS."
  • Francesco Biscani on 07 Mar 11
     
    Speaking of William Shatner, the legendary "Rocket Man": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hARDXYz2io
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IdeaConnection: Open Innovation success story: Open Innovation Boost to Space Exploration - 4 views

www.ideaconnection.com/...o-Space-Exploration-00257.html technology innovation open science space
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  • LeopoldS on 22 Feb 11
     
    nice
  • dejanpetkow on 23 Feb 11
     
    Is it a yearly thing?
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Darpa's New Recruits: You, Your Grandpa and Your Dog | Danger Room | Wired.com - 4 views

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  • LeopoldS on 17 Feb 11
     
    Darpa going crowd-sourcing ... for 25 million ....
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Ample Dark Matter Ignites Starburst Galaxies | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...dark-matter-starbursts PHY space science
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  • LeopoldS on 17 Feb 11
     
    true?
  • Luzi Bergamin on 19 Feb 11
     
    I think what these studies show (assuming that data and analysis are correct) is the fact that there is something fundamentally wrong about all this dark matter, dark energy dark whatever stuff. From this point of view I would say: nice result, go ahead!!
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Gravitational Theory Reproduces Superconducting Circuitry | Physical Review Focus - 0 views

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  • pacome delva on 06 Jun 11
     
    Another candidate for analogue gravity ?
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New algorithm offers ability to influence systems such as living cells or social networks - 3 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110512104220.htm control complex_networks complex networks
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  • a new computational model that can analyze any type of complex network -- biological, social or electronic -- and reveal the critical points that can be used to control the entire system.
  • Slotine and his colleagues applied traditional control theory to these recent advances, devising a new model for controlling complex, self-assembling networks.
  • Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Albert-László Barabási. Controllability of complex networks. Nature, 2011; 473 (7346): 167 DOI: 10.1038/nature10011
  • LeopoldS on 14 May 11
     
    Sounds too super to be true, no?
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  • LeopoldS on 15 May 11
     
    cover story in the May 12 issue of Nature
  • LeopoldS on 15 May 11
     
    For each, they calculated the percentage of points that need to be controlled in order to gain control of the entire system.
  • LeopoldS on 16 May 11
  • Ma Ru on 17 May 11
     
    > Sounds too super to be true, no? Yeah, how else may it sound, being a combination of hi-quality (I assume) research targeted at attracting funding, raised to the power of Science Daily's pop-pseudo-scientific journalists' bu****it? Original article starts with a cool sentence too: > The ultimate proof of our understanding of natural or technological systems is reflected in our ability to control them. ...a good starting point for a never-ending philosophers' debate... Now seriously, because of a big name behind the study, I'm very curious to read the original article. Although I expect the conclusion to be that in practical cases (i.e. the cases of "networks" you *would like to* "control"), you need to control all nodes or something equally impractical...
  • LeopoldS on 18 May 11
     
    then I am looking forward to reading your conclusions here after you will have actually read the paper
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Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice | Harvard Gazette - 0 views

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  • santecarloni on 21 May 11
     
    Researchers led by Ronald A. DePinho (above), a Harvard Medical School professor of genetics, say their work shows for the first time a dramatic reversal of many aspects of age-related degeneration in mice, a milestone in aging science achieved by engineering mice with a controllable telomerase gene. T
  • LeopoldS on 22 May 11
     
    I would not yet volunteer ....
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Tree identification a snap with mobile app - Technology & Science - CBC News - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...logy-leaf-app-smithsonian.html
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  • LeopoldS on 13 Jun 11
     
    One more nice citizen scientist example as I try to find for space since some time. Any good ideas this mit inspire you to?
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  • Ma Ru on 13 Jun 11
     
    IF THERE IS A MUSHROOM IDENTIFICATION APP I BUY AN IPHONE IMMEDIATELY!!!
  • LeopoldS on 13 Jun 11
     
    why don't you programme one and get rich?
  • Ma Ru on 13 Jun 11
     
    Would love to but this requires *TIME* :-( Automatic image-based mushroom recognition... perhaps could do as a FP7 study... it may save lives actually!

Speed of light broken? What??? - 1 views

started by terencepf on 22 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
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The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2011 - Telegraph - 2 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...e-Photography-Awards-2011.html FUN
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  • jmlloren on 27 Sep 11
     
    Excellent photo gallery.
  • Ma Ru on 07 Oct 11
     
    Thanks for sharing! Most pics are very very nice, but a few are actually pretty mediocre I must say... "Wildlife" photography is always a rather tricky topic, as demonstrated by this famous story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8470962.stm
  • Ma Ru on 20 Oct 11
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Cockroach-Inspired Robot Survives 8-Story Fall, Will Outlive Us All - Dash - Gizmodo - 3 views

gizmodo.com/...story-fall-will-outlive-us-all technology robotics cockroach motion
shared by Juxi Leitner on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 19 Oct 09
     
    wow ... nice project ... and very simple indeed!
  • Christos Ampatzis on 20 Oct 09
     
    sweet! That's a convincing biomimetic study :) Especially when it falls and survives...
  • Tobias Seidl on 25 Oct 09
     
    nice and good work, as usual from this lab. however, biomimetic is only the name, as usual from this lab.
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Photonic Thermos | Physical Review Focus - 0 views

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shared by pacome delva on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The pure vacuum of a thermos is not the best possible insulator for keeping your soup warm. Last year a team found theoretically that a structure known as a photonic crystal could block heat flow even more effectively than vacuum.
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Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence - 2 views

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09
     
    aren't these the creatures that also Christos bred not so long ago? (like the phrase: forget the zombies .. this is the real threat!")
  • Juxi Leitner on 27 Oct 09
     
    just read that too, the paper is here (I think that is the one at least): http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/139388/files/PNAS-2009-Mitri-0903152106.pdf
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The Great Beyond: Industry wants to try climate change - 0 views

blogs.nature.com/...ry_wants_to_try_climate_1.html Climate_change
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  • pacome delva on 11 Sep 09
     
    Completely crazy these guys !!!
  • LeopoldS on 12 Sep 09
     
    same story as the tobbacco industry which also tried to make people doubt about the health effects of smoking as long as they could ....
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