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Rosetta fuels debate on origin of Earth’s oceansesa.int
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapour from its target comet to be significantly different to that found on Earth. The discovery fuels the debate on the origin of our planet’s oceans. -
Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
Mathematicians have made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart prime numbers can stray. -
Project Maelstrom: The Internet We Build Nextblog.bittorrent.com
An invite-only Alpha to help build the distributed web. It started with a simple question. What if more of the web worked the way BitTorrent does? Project Maelstrom begins to answer that question w... -
Smarter Artificial Skin for Prosthetic Hands | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
South Korean and U.S. researchers have developed a stretchable material that senses touch, pressure, and moisture, and could be used to give artificial limbs feeling. -
Rosetta fuels debate on origin of Earth’s oceansblogs.esa.int
Tweet Rosetta has found that the composition of the water vapour at Comet 67P/C-G is significantly different to that found on Earth. The observations were made by the ROSINA instrument and are reported this week in the journal Science. Our full story i... -
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Wouldn't it be fun to build your own Google? - O'Reilly Radarradar.oreilly.com
For the last few millennia, libraries have been the custodians of human knowledge. By collecting books, and making them findable and accessible, they have done an incredible service... -
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How To Measure Planck’s Constant Using Lego | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
If you’re searching for the perfect present for the physicist who has everything, how about a Lego kit for measuring one of the universe’s fundamental constants? - mail.mozilla.org
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Debugging Network Applicationsbecomealinux.ninja
If you’re a software developer, odds are you’ve written some kind of client-server or peer-to-peer application. Sometimes you get stuck, and find it’ … -
SoundViz | Your favorite sound as beautiful artsoundviz.com
Any song or recorded voice converted into a visual soundwave and printed as a high-quality fine art print or gallery wrapped canvas. Each soundwave is unique and designed by you. -
Security Backdoors are Bad News—But Some Lawmakers Are Taking Action to Close Themeff.org
As many privacy advocates have pointed out recently, it looks like some people in the federal government are intent on reviving the failed Crypto Wars of the 90s. And despite recent assurances, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ... -
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Fantastically Wrong: The Scientist Who Thought 22 Trillion Aliens Live in Our Solar System | WIREDwired.com
In 1837, the Scottish scientist Thomas Dick had a big idea. A really, really big idea: Build “a huge triangle or ellipsis of many miles in extent, in Siberia or any other country.” He figured that because there are some 22 trillion aliens living in our... -
Special K, a Hallucinogen, Raises Hopes and Concerns as a Treatment for Depressionnytimes.com
Some see ketamine as an effective drug for some patients, and others see it as a dangerous hallucinogen that has not been studied enough.