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Don't count on visiting the 'nearby' Earth-like planet

Posted December 19, 2012 - 8:36 pm

The habitable planet orbiting the star Tau Ceti is 12 light years away, or about 70 trillion miles.
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Apple's Cook, 'God particle' on Time's list of 2012 notables

Posted December 19, 2012 - 5:39 pm

It has been a big year for some tech luminaries, with several of them getting a nod from editors picking Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
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CERN scientists nearly positive on 'God particle' discovery

Posted December 18, 2012 - 4:44 pm

Wrapping up the Large Hadron Collider's first three years of work, CERN scientists are nearly positive they've found the elusive Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle."
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NASA crashes two orbiters into moon mountain

Posted December 18, 2012 - 7:20 am

Nearly one year after beginning to orbit the moon and helping scientists learn more about the internal structure andcomposition of the moon, NASA's twin spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, crashed into the moon late Monday afternoon -- just as planned.
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It's windy out there in space

Posted December 17, 2012 - 5:51 pm

Researchers at the University of Iowa use a lab experiment to directly measure space turbulence caused by geomagnetic waves.
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Future computers will be able to smell, hear and taste

Posted December 17, 2012 - 3:05 pm

If a computer in five years can make healthy chocolate (or at least something that tastes close to that), I'm all in.
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Mariner 1's $135 million software bug

Posted December 17, 2012 - 12:51 pm

An incorrectly encoded punch card helped to doom the Mariner 1 spacecraft in 1962. Would that bug have been easier to catch today?
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Watch this NASA video of an asteroid passing near Earth

Posted December 14, 2012 - 6:24 pm

NASA made a short video clip of the asteroid Toutatis, which this week came 4.3 million miles from Earth on its journey around the Sun.
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Science Friday: How to pee in space

Posted December 14, 2012 - 1:45 pm

MinutePhysics and Smarter Every Day science podcast show us how astronauts got rid of waste on the moon.
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Ability to sit and rise from floor a 'strong predictor' of mortality for middle-aged and older

Posted December 13, 2012 - 5:46 pm

Researchers in Brazil have found a link between the ability of people middle-aged and older to sit and rise from the floor and their mortality.
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of America's first space 'first': Venus fly-by

Posted December 13, 2012 - 11:21 am

Learn about the 1962 mission to send a spacecraft to fly by Venus
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Why did the pedestrian cross the road? Who knows, but she really should stop texting

Posted December 12, 2012 - 10:39 pm

A study of people crossing busy Seattle intersections shows many ignoring basic rules of safety because they're too busy with their mobile devices.
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NASA spoils end-of-world hoopla fun with told-ya-so video

Posted December 12, 2012 - 5:59 pm

Oh, science, lighten up a bit. We all knew the world wasn't going to end, but you had to spoil all the fun by telling us 10 days ahead of time.
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Making big data smaller

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:49 pm

MIT researchers develop a new approach to working with big data: reduce it to a size that can be managed and analyzed with conventional tools
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2012 robot roundup

Posted December 10, 2012 - 4:22 pm

Robots often end up as toys or eye candy at trade show booths, but many of them have more noble purposes. We'll show you both in the 2012 robot review.
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The Weekly Hash - December 7, 2012

Posted December 7, 2012 - 12:16 pm

A silly review of recent tech stories, this week featuring the Gambino crime family, Yoko Ono and the pope
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128TB tape cartridges key to kilometer-size telescope

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:03 am

Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate.
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BrandPost: NSF revises big data research grant process

Posted December 6, 2012 - 9:00 am

Grant proposals submitted to the US National Science Foundation on or after January 14, 2013 must use new guidelines.
NASA to extend Mars exploration with another robotic rover

Posted December 5, 2012 - 10:03 pm

NASA today announced plans to extend its work on Mars and even send up another robotic rover in 2020.
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Not only can smoking tobacco kill you, it can make your hangovers worse

Posted December 5, 2012 - 9:05 am

A study from Brown University shows that people who smoke when they drink run a greater risk of suffering a hangover the next morning.
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How social networking helps male chimps get sex

Posted December 4, 2012 - 1:18 pm

A new study of male chimpanzees shows that, even in the animal kingdom, demonstrating strong social networking skills impresses the opposite sex.
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NASA rover finds complex chemicals, but no organic material

Posted December 3, 2012 - 5:18 pm

A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet.
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Why the elderly are vulnerable to fraud

Posted December 3, 2012 - 4:03 pm

New research shows that a part of the brain that determines if someone is trustworthy is less active in elderly people.
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Polar ice sheets continue to melt, but climate-change deniers remain thick as ever

Posted November 30, 2012 - 1:33 pm

The latest and most comprehensive study yet showing an alarming accelerating of sea ice loss is being dismissed by climate-change deniers. What a surprise.
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NASA blunts reports of history-making Mars discovery

Posted November 29, 2012 - 5:55 pm

NASA today blunted reports of a potentially history-making discovery on Mars.
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