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Follow Rosetta's final Earth boost

Rosetta's final Earth boost

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations ...


Last visit home for ESA's comet chaser Rosetta

Last visit home for ESA's comet chaser Rosetta

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

ESA's Rosetta comet chaser will swing by Earth on 13 November to pick up orbital energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to the outer Solar System. Several observations of the Earth-Moon system ...


Atlantis 'Go' For Launch to Station on Nov. 16

Atlantis 'Go' For Launch to Station on Nov. 16

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is targeted to begin an 11-day flight to the International Space Station with a Nov. 16 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled ...


Rosetta

Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic ...


Weekly and biweekly vitamin D2 prevents vitamin D deficiency

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Boston University School of Medicine researchers (BUSM) have found that 50,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D2, given weekly for eight weeks, effectively treats vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D2 is a mainstay for the ...


Miami firm says it will lay first US-Cuba fiber

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A small Miami-based company says the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and ...


Astronauts rest up after 3 spacewalks

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex are resting after their three successful spacewalks.


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Computing project combats Blackjack card counting

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Dundee graduate has created a computer system with the potential to make the game of Blackjack fairer by detecting card counters and dealer errors.


Benefit of memantine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease not proven

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

There is no scientific proof that patients with moderate or severe Alzheimer's disease benefit from drugs containing the agent memantine. This is the conclusion in the final report that the Institute for Quality and Efficiency ...


In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...

In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 38

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have published the discovery of the farthest known object in the cosmos: a star that exploded when the universe was only 630 million years old -- only 4.6% of its current age. ...


A woman watches the trailer for the upcoming movie about Michael Jackson on a computer

Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.


In search of machines that play at being human

In search of machines that play at being human

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Carlos III University (Spain) have taken part in an international contest whose objective is to improve artificial intelligence utilized in virtual worlds. The challenge for the participants ...


Cisco raises bid for Tandberg to $3.4 billion (AP)

Cisco raises bid for Tandberg to $3.4 billion

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it raised its bid for Norway's Tandberg ASA after only a fraction of Tandberg shareholders agreed to Cisco's initial offer.


Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...


Space shuttle Atlantis, 7 astronauts back on Earth (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis, 7 astronauts back on Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.