News tagged with object
UFO-obsessed Briton loses bid to block US extradition
Nov 26, 2009 |
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A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers faces extradition to the United States after the British government Thursday rejected last-ditch requests to block the move.
SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2009 |
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You don't always have to have a rocket to do rocket science. Sometimes a mere airplane will do - that is, a mere Boeing 747 toting a 17-ton, 9-foot wide telescope named SOFIA.
Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...
Shape perception in brain develops by itself
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study.
History in 3D
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional computer graphics is moving into museums. Works of art are being digitally archived in 3D, simplifying research into related artifacts and providing the public with fascinating ...
Astronomers explore 'last blank space' on map of the Universe
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most distant object ever discovered is described in this week's edition of the science journal Nature. Two international teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst ...
British hacker gets more time to fight US extradition
Oct 17, 2009 |
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A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Saturday given more time to fight his extradition to the United States, officials and lawyers said.
Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...
Setback for British 'hacker' in US extradition fight
Oct 12, 2009 |
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A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Friday refused permission to appeal to the new Supreme Court in London against his extradition to the United States.
With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...
e-Infrastructures give real boost to virtual observatories
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New tools and systems developed by European researchers are helping astronomers access data centres from anywhere in the world. From charting new stars to finding new meaning in old stellar objects, the result ...
High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient.
Researchers explain the activity of black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the University of Bonn have clarified the connection between black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters and surrounding gas, which serves them as "food". The scientists have ...
Spacecraft Could Save Earth from Asteroids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- British space engineers working for a space company in Stevenage in England, have designed a "gravity tractor" spacecraft to deflect any asteroids threatening to collide with Earth. The announcement ...
It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...
