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3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: KJV: Ephesians 1:3-4
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him In love NASB: Ephesians 1:3-4
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love NIV: Ephesians 1:3-4
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. KJV: John 15:7
"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. NASB: John 15:7
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. NIV: John 15:7
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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. KJV: Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person. NASB: Colossians 4:6
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. NIV: Colossians 4:6
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. KJV: Psalms 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. NASB: Psalms 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. NIV: Psalms 46:1
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- New test seen as big advance in diagnosing TB (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:02 EST)
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it.
- Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, research shows (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:01 EST)
New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana - that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults - is overblown.
- Apple refreshes iTunes software (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:01 EST)
(AP) -- Users of Apple Inc.'s iTunes software will now be able to see what songs their friends are buying and where their favorite bands are playing next.
- Pivotal study finds link between PTSD and dementia (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:40:01 EST)
Results of a study reported in the September issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest that Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a greater risk for dementia than Veterans without PTSD, even those who suffered traumatic injuries during combat.
- Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:23:52 EST)
(AP) -- Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.
- UK: New guidelines to ease sleepless nights (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:20:01 EST)
Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released up-to-the-minute guidelines in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE, to guide psychiatrists and physicians caring for those with sleep problems.
- Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:17:30 EST)
(AP) -- Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.
- Microsoft Excel-based algorithm predicts cancer prognosis (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:10:01 EST)
Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research will enable researchers to quickly generate valuable gene signatures without specialized software or extensive bioinformatics training.
- Chronic Lyme disease: How often is it diagnosed and treated? (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:06:08 EST)
The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Some health care workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians. Others, however, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, state that there is no convincing biological evidence that chronic Lyme disease exists.
- Carlos '97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:01:28 EST)
Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skilful free kick goal - from 35m with a powerful curling banana trajectory - ever scored; but by others to have been an incredible fluke.
- Metal-mining bacteria are green chemists (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:58:17 EST)
Microbes could soon be used to convert metallic wastes into high-value catalysts for generating clean energy, say scientists writing in the September issue of Microbiology.
- Study recommends changes to emergency seed aid (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:53:02 EST)
A major study of agriculture in Haiti after this year's earthquake has found that much of the emergency seed aid provided after the disaster was not targeted to emergency needs. The report concludes that seed aid, when poorly-designed, could actually harm farmers or depress local markets, therefore hampering recovery from emergencies.
- Scientific breakthrough to pave the way for human stem cell factories (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:40:01 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Large scale, cost-effective stem cell factories able to keep up with demand for new therapies to treat a range of human illnesses are a step closer to reality, thanks to a scientific breakthrough involving researchers at The University of Nottingham.
- FCC rejects proposal for free wireless service (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:01 EST)
(AP) -- Federal regulators have shot down a proposal by a startup called M2Z Networks Inc. to build a free, nationwide wireless broadband network using a spare slice of airwaves.
- Journal editors question sale of diet pill Meridia (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:20:01 EST)
(AP) -- Editors of a top medical journal are questioning whether the diet pill Meridia should stay on the market even if it's restricted to people without heart disease.
- Sensor measures yoctonewton forces fast (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:10:06 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons. Measurements of slight forces -one yoctonewton is equivalent to the weight of a single copper atom on Earth -- can be useful in force microscopy, nanoscale science, and tests of fundamental physics theories.
- Lower blood pressure goal benefits some African-Americans with chronic kidney disease (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:10:05 EST)
On average, a lower blood pressure goal was no better than the standard blood pressure goal at slowing progression of kidney disease among African-Americans who had chronic kidney disease resulting from high blood pressure, according to results of the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK), the largest and longest study of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African-Americans. However, the blood pressure goal did benefit people who also had protein in the urine, which is a sign of kidney damage. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, appears in the Sept. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Chip revenue expected to grow 31.5 percent in 2010: Gartner (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:10:01 EST)
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to grow 31.5 percent this year to 300 billion dollars, technology research firm Gartner said Wednesday.
- Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl's heavy rainfall (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:32 EST)
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense.
- Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP hurricane mission (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:02 EST)
NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first ever high-altitude flyover of a tropical cyclone with a UAS (unmanned aircraft system).
- Biochemical pathway may link addiction, compulsive eating (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:50:01 EST)
Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, which is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco.
- Highlight: New TB diagnostic proves effective, expedient, study finds (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:36:25 EST)
A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Study finds commercial organic farms have better fruit and soil, lower environmental impact (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:33:18 EST)
Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.
- A single interaction affects the way a child seeks information, study finds (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:30:02 EST)
Seven-year-old children only need to interact with a person once to learn who to trust and seek information from, according to a study by Queen's University researchers.
- Kids with sports concussions need time out (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:20:01 EST)
Between 1997-2007, the number of emergency room visits for concussions doubled in children ages 8-13 who play organized sports. Part of the reason is greater awareness, according to Mark E. Halstead, MD, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery and of pediatrics and director of Washington University in St. Louis` Sports Concussion Program.
- Neonatal intensive care units critical to infant survival (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:10:01 EST)
Very low birthweight and very preterm infants are more likely to die if they are not born at hospitals with neonatal intensive care units specially equipped to care for seriously ill newborns, in contrast to similar babies born at those specialized facilities.
- Researchers receive largest single collection of psoriasis DNA samples (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:02:32 EST)
Millions of Americans struggling with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are one step closer to a cure with the release of the first National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank DNA samples for use in research at the University of Michigan Health System; research that hopes to uncover the unknowns about the genetics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
- Critical polar data flows briskly to researchers (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:01 EST)
Operation IceBridge -- a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice -- is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October. The mission is now paralleled by a campaign to bring data to researchers as quickly as possible and to accelerate the analysis of those changes and how they may affect people and climate systems.
- Brain exercises may slow cognitive decline initially, but speed up dementia later (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:59:12 EST)
New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age. The research is published in the September 1, 2010, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
- NASA infrared data sees convection building in Fiona's clouds (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:50:01 EST)
Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed some strong convection building in Tropical Storm Fiona, and her maximum sustained winds increased from 40 mph yesterday to 60 mph this morning
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- Carlos '97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:01:28 EST)
Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skilful free kick goal - from 35m with a powerful curling banana trajectory - ever scored; but by others to have been an incredible fluke.
- Glasperlenspiel: Scientists propose new test for gravity (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:30:01 EST)
A new experiment proposed* by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances -- a scale at which exotic new details of gravity's behavior may be detectable.
- A model system for group behavior of nanomachines (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:42:59 EST)
For the casual observer it is fascinating to watch the orderly and seemingly choreographed motion of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds or insects. However, the formation and the manifold motion patterns of such flocks raise numerous questions fundamental to the understanding of complex systems.
- New material may reveal inner workings of hi-temp superconductors (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:23:53 EST)
Measurements taken* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery. A new copper-based compound exhibits properties never before seen in a superconductor and could be a step toward solving part of the mystery.
- NIST researchers create 'quantum cats' made of light (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:10:04 EST)
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created "quantum cats" made of photons (particles of light), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements as well as computing and communications based on quantum physics.
- New study suggests researchers can now test the 'theory of everything' (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:45:07 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers describe how to carry out the first experimental test of string theory in a paper published tomorrow in Physical Review Letters.
- Physicists propose quantum refrigerator (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:10:01 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bristol in the UK have proposed a refrigerator that consists of just a few quantum particles -- qubits.
- IceCube neutrino observatory nears completion (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:19:19 EST)
In December 2010, IceCube -- the world's first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, which is located beneath the Antarctic ice -- will finally be completed after two decades of planning. In an article in the AIP's Review of Scientific Instruments, Francis Halzen, the principal investigator of the IceCube project, and his colleague Spencer Klein of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory provide a comprehensive description of the observatory, its instrumentation, and its scientific mission -- including its most publicized goal: finding the sources of cosmic rays.
- LEDs illuminate eye for ocular disease screening (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:16:18 EST)
A new imaging system using six different wavelengths to illuminate the interior of the eyeball (ocular fundus) may pave the way for doctors to easily screen patients for common diseases of the eye, such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. The system is described in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments.
- Radioactive decay rates vary with the sun's rotation: research (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:58:03 EST)
Radioactive decay rates, thought to be unique physical constants and counted on in such fields as medicine and anthropology, may be more variable than once thought.
- Probing spin liquids with a new pulsed-magnet system (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:57:22 EST)
Entirely new experimental vistas could be opened by a device called a precursor pulsed-magnet system developed by an international team of scientists. This system can generate magnetic fields as high as 30 Tesla for synchrotron x-ray scattering experiments. The researchers recently completed the first practical work using the system at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to study magnetoelastic effects in the rare-earth pyrochlore terbium titanate (Tb2Ti2O7). Their findings were published in Physical Review Letters.
- Producing isolated laser pulses in attoseconds made easier using two-color laser field (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:50:03 EST)
Ultrafast time-resolved laser spectroscopy is a technique that uses the interaction of light with matter to study the properties of physical systems. Researchers can generate laser pulses lasting mere attoseconds -- quintillionths of seconds -- to examine the nuclear dynamics in different states of matter, including single atoms.
- First direct observation of unusual magnetic structure could lead to novel electronic, magnetic memory devices (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:50:23 EST)
In conventional ferromagnets, the individual magnetic moments of the atoms that together comprise the magnetism of the material are all aligned parallel, pointing in a common direction. In some magnets, quantum-mechanical interactions between the electrons of a material or the presence of internal electric fields, for example, mean that the magnetic arrangements are more complex.
- Better light measurement through quantum cloning (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:30:01 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the things we have been studying is how the world works on a really small scale," Bruno Sanguinetti, a scientist at the University of Geneva in Switzerland tells PhysOrg.com. "At the quantum level, the world can behave in ways that are far from our everyday experience. For example, information at the quantum level cannot be copied exactly." This is different, he continues, from the ease with which we can copy information in the classical regime.
- Location determines social network influence, study finds (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:00:05 EST)
A team of researchers led by Dr. Hernan Makse, professor of physics at The City College of New York (CCNY), has shed new light on the way that information and infectious diseases proliferate across complex networks. Writing in Nature Physics, they report that, contrary to conventional wisdom, persons with the most connections are not necessarily the best spreaders.
- Vulnerability in commercial quantum cryptography (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:00:01 EST)
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg together with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen have recently developed and tested a technique exploiting imperfections in quantum cryptography systems to implement an attack.
- Prediction of intrinsic magnetism at silicon surfaces could lead to single-spin magnetoelectronics (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:12:42 EST)
The integration of single-spin magnetoelectronics into standard silicon technology may soon be possible, if experiments confirm a new theoretical prediction by physicists at the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Discovery could challenge established theory of the nucleus (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:41:58 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing data from experiments performed earlier this decade at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA), physicists have made observations that seem to conflict with the widely accepted theory of the nucleus.
- Major budget cuts to slow world's biggest atom smasher: CERN (Update) (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:36:38 EST)
European budget cuts at the world's biggest atom smasher are set to slow down its quest to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe, management and staff warned on Wednesday.
- Creating light sources for nanochips (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:30:01 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the most important goals in the optics community is to create and manipulate light on chip," Yinan Zhang tells PhysOrg.com. "This is especially important when it comes to improving the performance of semiconductor lasers with increasingly small device size. This device improvement, owing to recent developments in nanotechnology, will enable a high integration capacity of photonic devices in the future. This could take place in a fashion similar to what has happened to the semiconductor electronic industry."
- Atmospheric pressure plasma jet from a grounded electrode (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:50:48 EST)
Because they are portable and easy to operate at ambient temperatures, cold atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) should find innovative applications in biomedicine, materials science and fabrication industries. Research reported in the Journal of Applied Physics investigates an APPJ that extends from the ground electrode of a circuit.
- Half-a-loaf method can improve magnetic memories (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:48:51 EST)
Chinese scientists have shown that magnetic memory, logic and sensor cells can be made faster and more energy efficient by using an electric, not magnetic, field to flip the magnetization of the sensing layer only about halfway, rather than completely to the opposite direction. They describe the new cell design in the Journal of Applied Physics.
- Glorious gadolinium gives flash memory a future (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:45:38 EST)
Future flash memory could be faster and store more data without changing its basic design by using a clever nanocrystal material proposed by scientists at Taiwan's Chang Gung University, who describe a new logical element made with the rare earth material gadolinium in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
- 'Spintronics' breakthrough holds promise for next-generation computers (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:59:07 EST)
Using powerful lasers, Hui Zhao, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and graduate student Lalani Werake have discovered a new way to recognize currents of spinning electrons within a semiconductor.
- LEDs promise brighter future, not necessarily greener (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:44:16 EST)
Solid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient Edison light bulb with more efficient solid-state light-emitting devices (LEDs) would lower electrical usage worldwide, not only "greenly" decreasing the need for new power plants but even permitting some to be decommissioned.
- The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:19:46 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions of physics.
- Powerful new way to control magnetism (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:00:02 EST)
A team of scientists at Rutgers University has found a material in which an electric field can control the overall magnetic properties of the material. If the magnetoelectric effect discovered by the Rutgers group can be extended to higher temperatures, it could be useful for manipulating small-scale magnetic bits in ultra high-density data storage. The research appears in the current issue of Physical Review Letters.
- Peregrine's 'Soliton' observed at last (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:49:40 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An old mathematical solution proposed as a prototype of the infamous ocean rogue waves responsible for many maritime catastrophes has been observed in a continuous physical system for the first time.
- Researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:33:29 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields, which enhances our understanding of how stars, including the Sun, work.
- Popping Bubbles Hold Promise in Cellular Drug Injection (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:35:16 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique that harnesses the power of mighty microscopic bubbles, developed by Duke engineers, can open for a blink of the eye nanometer-sized entries into individual cells.
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- Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:23:52 EST)
(AP) -- Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.
- Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl's heavy rainfall (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:32 EST)
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense.
- Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP hurricane mission (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:02 EST)
NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first ever high-altitude flyover of a tropical cyclone with a UAS (unmanned aircraft system).
- Study finds commercial organic farms have better fruit and soil, lower environmental impact (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:33:18 EST)
Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.
- Critical polar data flows briskly to researchers (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:01 EST)
Operation IceBridge -- a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice -- is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October. The mission is now paralleled by a campaign to bring data to researchers as quickly as possible and to accelerate the analysis of those changes and how they may affect people and climate systems.
- NASA infrared data sees convection building in Fiona's clouds (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:50:01 EST)
Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed some strong convection building in Tropical Storm Fiona, and her maximum sustained winds increased from 40 mph yesterday to 60 mph this morning
- Recipe for water: Just add starlight (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:36:07 EST)
ESA's (European Space Agency) Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a key ingredient for making water in the atmosphere of some stars. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour. These new results will be published tomorrow in Nature.
- Spectrum of young extrasolar planet yields surprising results (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:30:02 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another star using the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the results are puzzling. They have found that its atmosphere is unlike that of any previously studied extrasolar planet.
- NASA and NOAA's newest GOES satellite ready for action (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:20:06 EST)
NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications services. GOES-15 is the third and final spacecraft in the GOES N-P Series of geostationary environmental weather satellites.
- Extreme effects: Seven things you didn't know about Mercury (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:15:59 EST)
Pity poor Mercury. The tiny planet endures endless assaults by intense sunlight, powerful solar wind and high-speed miniature meteoroids called micrometeoroids. The planet's flimsy covering, the exosphere, nearly blends in with the vacuum of space, making it too thin to offer protection. Because of this, it's tempting to think of Mercury's exosphere as just the battered remains of ancient atmosphere.
- Supercomputing brings the climate picture into focus (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:05:41 EST)
Recent advances in supercomputing have brightened the future of climate modeling, but they also bring to light complicated questions about the fundamental workings of our planet and our atmosphere.
- Infrared NASA image shows strong convection in new Atlantic Depression 9 (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:03 EST)
The Atlantic Ocean is in overdrive this week, and NASA satellite imagery captured the birth of the ninth tropical depression in the central Atlantic Ocean today, trailing to the east of Tropical Storm Fiona.
- Global warming could spell disaster for corn crops (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:44:24 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- If corn producers continue using the same cultivars, plants selected for their desirable characteristics, global warming could cause production to drop from 1.3 to 10 percent between 2010 and 2039.
- Fault finding: UCI seismologist finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:40:01 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI seismologist Lisa Grant Ludwig finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas fault.
- Water study: Is colloidal silver necessary for bacteria removal? (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:14:10 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicole Heinley, a graduate student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, traveled to Guatemala twice in the past year to conduct research on ceramic pot filters that are used locally to remove bacteria from water. Now, Heinley's findings are about to be published in the Journal of Water Science and Technology.
- Greenpeace wants Facebook center off coal fuel (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:40:03 EST)
(AP) -- Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S.
- Climate: Risks loom for China: study (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:20:50 EST)
Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.
- NIST ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:10:01 EST)
With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology helped NASA scientists successfully position a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne instrument to observe a "hidden" layer of the Sun where violent space weather can originate.
- Many urban streams harmful to aquatic life following winter pavement deicing (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:40:01 EST)
The use of salt to deice pavement can leave urban streams toxic to aquatic life, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study on the influence of winter runoff in northern US cities, with a special focus on eastern Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
- The superwind galaxy NGC 4666 (w/ Video) (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:01 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 4666 is a remarkable galaxy with very vigorous star formation and an unusual "superwind" of out-flowing gas. It had previously been observed in X-rays by the ESA XMM-Newton space telescope, and the image presented here was taken to allow further study of other objects detected in the earlier X-ray observations.
- Satellite navigation steers unmanned micro-planes (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:21:48 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA's Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion.
- Researchers analyze 'the environmentalist's paradox' (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:01 EST)
Global degradation of ecosystems is widely believed to threaten human welfare, yet accepted measures of well-being show that it is on average improving globally, both in poor countries and rich ones. A team of authors writing in the September issue of BioScience dissects explanations for this "environmentalist's paradox."
- A decade of studying the Earth's magnetic shield, in 3-D (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:20:01 EST)
Today (September 1), space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by 'Cluster', a mission that is illuminating the mysteries of the magnetosphere, the northern lights and the solar wind.
- Be frank with trapped miners, NASA tells Chile (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:14:44 EST)
A team of NASA experts in Chile to share the US space agency's experience in having men endure extensive periods of isolation told officials Tuesday to be totally frank with the 33 miners trapped underground for months to come.
- GOES-13 catches 3 tropical cyclones thrashing through the Atlantic (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:10:01 EST)
Powerful Hurricane Earl, growing Tropical Storm Fiona and fading Danielle were all captured in today's visible image from the GOES-13 satellite. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 captured an image of the busy Atlantic Ocean at 1145 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT) on August 31. In the visible image, was the large and powerful Hurricane Earl passing Puerto Rico, Tropical Storm Fiona located to Earl's east, and Danielle far in the Northern Atlantic. Hurricane Earl's eye appear to be covered with high-clouds in the GOES-13 image, while Fiona appeared somewhat disorganized with no apparent center. Farther north in the North Atlantic Ocean, Danielle appeared more "U" shaped on the satellite imagery, although her maximum sustained winds were still near 70 mph at that time.
- NASA's Terra Satellite captures 3 tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:26:28 EST)
NASA's Terra satellite flew over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean at 10:30 p.m. EDT Aug. 30 and captured Tropical Storm Lionrock, Tropical Storm Namtheun, and Typhoon Kompasu in one incredible image. Two of these tropical cyclones are expected to merge, while the other is headed for a landfall in China.
- Phenomenon of plate tectonics explained (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:46:15 EST)
Transform faults subdivide the mid-ocean ridge into segments. Up until now, it was thought that these faults were ruptures that formed in less stable crust areas. Taras Gerya has recorded a model of the dynamics that lead to the transform faults, which shows that what were assumed to be ruptures are in fact structures that have grown naturally.
- University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:40:01 EST)
University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday.
- NASA and ATK successfully test five-segment solid rocket motor (w/ Video) (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:46:55 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. The motor is potentially transferable to future heavy-lift launch vehicle designs.
- China raises alarm over Yangtze environmental damage (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:40:01 EST)
China will spend billions of dollars treating sewage and planting forests to arrest massive environmental degradation along the Yangtze river and its Three Gorges reservoir, officials said Tuesday.
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- Apple refreshes iTunes software (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:01 EST)
(AP) -- Users of Apple Inc.'s iTunes software will now be able to see what songs their friends are buying and where their favorite bands are playing next.
- FCC rejects proposal for free wireless service (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:01 EST)
(AP) -- Federal regulators have shot down a proposal by a startup called M2Z Networks Inc. to build a free, nationwide wireless broadband network using a spare slice of airwaves.
- Chip revenue expected to grow 31.5 percent in 2010: Gartner (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:10:01 EST)
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to grow 31.5 percent this year to 300 billion dollars, technology research firm Gartner said Wednesday.
- FCC seeks input on rules for online services (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:56:13 EST)
(AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking public input on what rules should apply to wireless Internet access and specialized services that aren't part of the Internet but are delivered over wired broadband connections.
- New process promises to revolutionize manufacturing of products (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:54 EST)
A new "smart materials" process - Multiple Memory Material Technology - developed by University of Waterloo engineering researchers promises to revolutionize the manufacture of diverse products such as medical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), printers, hard drives, automotive components, valves and actuators.
- Laser-based missile defense for helicopters being developed (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:41:48 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.
- Review: News app that lets you choose your editor (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:05:24 EST)
(AP) -- Most of the articles that show up in your newspaper or magazine are chosen by professional editors. What if they are picked out by a friend from college instead? Or a colleague from work? Or your mom? Anyone you know, really?
- Indian government begins allocating 3G bandwidth (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:00:15 EST)
India's government on Wednesday began allocating third-generation (3G) bandwidth for cellphone services to mobile operators after a multi-billion-dollar auction of licences.
- Mimicking fish and tailoring radar to warn of bridge peril (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:50:01 EST)
Floods cut down more bridges than fire, wind, earthquakes, deterioration, overloads and collisions combined, costing lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
- India wants Google, Skype to set up local servers (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:30:01 EST)
India's government on Wednesday said BlackBerry, Google, Skype and other communications providers must set up servers in the country to allow security forces to intercept Internet data.
- Sony Ericsson targeting China's smartphone market (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:50:01 EST)
Sony Ericsson said Wednesday China would become its biggest handset market by volume in the next three to four years, as it moved to grab a bigger slice of the fast-growing smartphone market.
- New technology for multi-tasking motorcycle officers (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:30:01 EST)
A motorcycle police officer on an urgent call faces huge information processing and decision-making demands. A new European research project aims to prevent potentially dangerous information overload.
- 'Dark silicon' to improve smartphone battery life (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:46:17 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon" - the underused transistors in modern microprocessors. On August 23, UC San Diego computer scientists presented GreenDroid, the new smartphone chip prototype at the HotChips symposium in Palo Alto, CA.
- Sports gamblers getting BlackBerry app in Nevada (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:30:01 EST)
(AP) -- Getting money down on your favorite sports team is getting a little easier in Nevada with the first-ever legal wagering application for smart phones.
- India: 'standing firm' on BlackBerry access demand (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:20:02 EST)
India says it is standing firm in its demand for security agencies to have access to BlackBerry messages after giving the smartphone's makers a 60-day reprieve on a threat to ban core services.
- Microsoft launches advertising platform in China (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:20:01 EST)
Microsoft has launched an advertising platform in China in an attempt to grab market share from rival Google, which has been wrangling with Beijing over censorship, state media said Wednesday.
- Myanmar's cyber generation boots up for first-time vote (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:00:01 EST)
One of Myanmar's self-described "pioneer bloggers" proudly opens his popular website -- officially banned by the military rulers -- and scrolls to his updates on the approaching election.
- China's mobile users must show ID to get number (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:54:44 EST)
Cellphone customers in China must provide identification from Wednesday to purchase a new number, state media said -- the latest step by Beijing to tighten curbs over the world's largest mobile market.
- Amazon trying to offer subscription TV, movies (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:43:29 EST)
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is talking with major media companies about offering unlimited views of older TV shows and movies online, as it struggles to stay relevant to consumers flocking to Apple Inc.'s iTunes a la carte store and Netflix Inc.'s all-you-can-eat subscription plan.
- Electronic Arts brings 'Madden' to Facebook (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:14:03 EST)
(AP) -- Electronic Arts is bringing its popular "Madden" football game to Facebook. "Madden NFL Superstars" launches as a free application Tuesday.
- Online learning startup rises on wings of angel investors (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:50:01 EST)
A startup intent on making it simple for anyone to teach online has received a million dollars in funding from "angels," technology industry successes backing peers with good ideas.
- Fuel-efficiency formula needs cars wired with better brainpower, less vroom (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:37:35 EST)
A University of Michigan researcher says it's possible to triple fuel economy in gasoline-powered cars by 2035, but it'll mean getting our automotive kicks from smart electronic technology and other forms of virtual performance rather than horsepower.
- Epson launches volume production of world's first reflective HTPS panels (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:00:30 EST)
Seiko Epson today announced that it has developed and begun volume production of the world's first reflective high-temperature polysilicon (reflective HTPS) TFT liquid crystal panels for 3LCD projectors. The new panels, which measure 0.74 inches on the diagonal, support full high-definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) content.
- Off-the-shelf dyes improve solar cells (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:50:04 EST)
Like most technologies, work on solar devices has proceeded in generational waves. First came bulk silicon-based solar cells built with techniques that borrowed heavily from those used to make computer chips. Next came work on thin films of materials specifically tailored to harvest the sun's energy, but still more or less borrowed from the realm of microelectronics manufacturing. Then came the third generation, described by one researcher and blogger as "the wild west," which among other objectives aims to build inexpensive next-generation solar cells by relying on decidedly low-tech wet chemistry.
- Students create web site to track historic twitter trends (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:13 EST)
(PhysOrg.com) -- RT @UCRiverside: #Computerscience and #art student create tool to track Twitter's top trending topics over time.
- Oxford English Dictionary may never be printed again (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:33:04 EST)
The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday.
- Gartner cuts second-half PC growth forecast (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:28:23 EST)
Gartner slashed its growth forecast for personal computer sales for the second half of the year on Tuesday, citing the uncertain economic outlook for the United States and Western Europe.
- 3M buying maker of products used to track people (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:10:03 EST)
(AP) -- Manufacturing conglomerate 3M Co. said Tuesday it has agreed to pay $230 million in cash for an Israeli company that makes ankle bracelets and other products used to keep track of people.
- WikiLeaks founder questioned by Swedish police (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:46:25 EST)
(AP) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been questioned by Swedish police about an allegation that he mistreated a woman, his lawyer said Tuesday.
- Judge: Pa. district must pay $260K in spying case (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:43:32 EST)
(AP) -- A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family's lawyer about $260,000.
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