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Sorry, We haven't been posting as much as we usually do. Also, we are dividing up the Feburay Technology news into 2 parts because, We didn't have a January Technology News! Sorry About that!
By PopSci
Now this is quite a mystery! Medical detectives National Institutes of Health have just cracked their first case wide open, a result they hope to repeat with a slew of other uncharacterized illnesses and conditions. The Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP), a sleuthing agency set up within the NIH in 2008 to connect the dots between cases of undiagnosable illnesses, has traced the source of an extremely rare vascular disorder back to its genetic roots, notching the
first closed case for the UDP and
another victory for diagnosis genomics.
By PopSci & Rainbow Posts
Streptomyces coelicolor, a soil-dwelling bacterium, has one of the best-understood genomes in its genus. Even so, a computational analysis of its genome has led researchers to a surprise: a new antibiotic compound. By tinkering with the bacteria, researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands were able to awaken an inactive gene group that produces large quantities of yellow coelicolor polyketide and a new compound with antimicrobial activity.
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isn't it nice up here? The ESA’s newest Automated Transfer Vehicle--ATV-2, otherwise known as Johannes Kepler--is loaded up and primed for its February 15th launch to the International Space Station, marking a several significant milestones for the European Space Agency and its contribution to ISS operations. Among those benchmarks, it marks the
first “operational” flight for the ESA’s ATVs, the 200th launch aboard the European Ariane 5 rocket, and the heaviest load an Ariane 5 has ever hurled into orbit in space, An amazing, Machine, with an amazing view, And to conduct
first “operational” flight. an insanely grat thing worth talking about.
[ Read Full Story ]Today, in a
thoroughly nerdy ceremony in Miami, the last five blocks of IPv4 addresses were handed out. That's sparked a lot of concern: The internet as we know it is out of space! The next evolution of Internet Protocol, IPv6, is largely unusable! Panic in the virtual streets! But that's all a bit misleading, at least for now. Here's what's really going on.
By Clay Dillowed 02.03.2011 at 11:43 am
PostEngineers are always looking for ways to pare down the size of technologies, and apparently that penchant for miniaturization extends to bomb-sniffing canines as well. Israeli researchers are trading in their dogs for mice trained in explosive detection, using teams of tiny rodents to keep dangerous materials out of airports. Geoengineering could cause more problems than the global warming it aims to stop
By David RobertsPosted 02.03.2011 at 10:46 am
Engineering the atmosphere to forestall the worst results of global warming was once considered too hubristic to seriously contemplate. The grim prospects for passing an international climate-change treaty have changed that. Last year the National Academies of Science in the U.S. and the Royal Society in the U.K. both convened meetings on geoengineering.
A company based in Puerto Rico wants to install
iris-detection capabilities in everything from cell phones to ATMs, beefing up personalized security options in an increasingly networked world. But privacy advocates say overuse of iris scans could cause problems for civil liberties and identity theft, especially if databases are ever compromised or if mistakes are made.
Android is finally ready to take on the iPad, and the fantastic-looking Motorola Xoom--with Android 3.0--might be the one to do it
Today, Google fully demonstrated the next version of Android, version 3.0--also known as Honeycomb--to the press, finally showing off the completely redesigned interface, the new app strategy, and the first tablet to use Honeycomb: the Motorola Xoom. This is the first tablet to really offer a challenge to Apple's iPad, and
one of our favorite gadgets from this year's CES, so it's really exciting to see both hardware and software in action.
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