Posted in News on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
RAMADI, Iraq, Nov 29 (IPS) – A semblance of calm belies an undercurrent of violence, detentions and fear across Iraq’s volatile al-Anbar province.
The province — which occupies one-third of Iraq’s geographic area — has been a bane to authorities since the beginning of the occupation.
"The Americans talked about our province as the deadliest enemy, and [...]
Posted in News on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Voyager 2 Spacecraft Set to Reach Space Milestone
A computer simulation by a physicist predicts the Voyager 2 spacecraft will reach a major milestone in space in late 2007 or early 2008. (Credit: NASA/Walt Feimer)
ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2007) — Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary [...]
Posted in News on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Your Robotic Personal Assistant
New software lets robots pick up objects they have never seen before–an important step toward creating multifunctional domestic helpers.
By Kate Greene
Pick it up: Stanford researchers have designed software that helps a robot grab objects that it has never seen before. The hardware sits on a Segway wheel base and includes two lasers [...]
Posted in News on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nuke to the Future By Dave Maass Published: November 21, 2007
New technology takes on energy crisis. The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub. It’s shaped like a sake cup, filled with a uranium hydride core and surrounded by [...]
Posted in News on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Super’ scanner shows key detail
Animated images produced by the new scanner
A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by as much as 80%.
The new 256-slice CT machine takes large numbers of X-ray pictures, and combines them using computer technology to produce the final [...]
Posted in News on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Name them. Maim them. Kill them.From the beginning of the American occupation in Iraq, air strikes and attacks by the U.S. military have only killed “militants,” “criminals,” “suspected insurgents,” “IED [Improvised Explosive Device] emplacers,” “anti-American fighters,” “terrorists,” “military age males,” “armed men,” “extremists,” or “al-Qaeda.”The pattern for reporting on such attacks has remained the same [...]
Posted in News on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Arab nations decide to attend diluted U.S. peace conference
The event, initially billed as a groundbreaking summit, has shrunk to a half-day event that one senior Egyptian official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, derided as a “coffee party.” As late as this week, some participants complained that they still hadn’t received formal [...]
Posted in News on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Hazy Future for a ‘Jewel’ of Space Instruments
This is sad, we need an endowment to keep it going, 100M will do it.
The Arecibo radio telescope is a thousand feet wide and 167 feet deep.
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: November 20, 2007
The next time an unexpected comet shows up in the inner solar system, [...]
Posted in News on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Defense officials said there was growing Iranian and Syrian involvement in motivating Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the West Bank to carry out terrorist attacks in recent months, including the transfer of funds and instructions.
"These groups have an interest in the summit failing and they are trying everything they can to make that happen," [...]
Posted in News on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Are Aliens Among Us?
In pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for microbes that are radically different from all known organisms
By Paul Davies
The origin of life is one of the great unsolved problems of science. Nobody knows how, where or when life originated. About all that is [...]
