Botnets: What They Are and How to Avoid Them
Last month, the head of an international securities fraud ring was sentenced to federal prison for manipulating stock prices by using botnets to distribute spam promoting those stocks.
View ArticleHighly preserved mammoth presents scientists with blood sample
An extremely well preserved woolly mammoth has been found by Russian scientists in Siberia, announced Wednesday.
View ArticleData from NASA Rover's Voyage to Mars Aids Planning
This set of artist's concepts shows NASA's Mars Science Laboratory cruise capsule and NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is being built now at NASA's Johnson Space Center and will one day send astronauts...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Internet Balloons
Google scientists have launched up to 30 helium-filled test balloons into the skies above New Zealand, with the dream of bringing the Internet to nearly five billion people across the globe without...
View ArticleHome servers offer inexpensive cloud storage to consumers
Space Monkey is another alternative to energy-consuming data centers that replaces standalone hard-drives with inexpensive home cloud storage devices.
View ArticleNASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021
The U.S. space agency says its proposed asteroid capture mission takes several of NASA's ongoing initiatives and aligns them for one major mission.
View ArticleKerry Praises Genetically Modified Crops
The World Food Prize Foundation has announced that its prestigious prize this year goes to three scientists who helped advance the development of genetically modified crops. The announcement Wednesday...
View ArticleGoogle Street View Goes Way, Way Up
Google Street View allows anyone with an Internet connection to tour many parts of the globe virtually, and now you can even take a virtual tour of Dubai’s BurjKhalifa, the world’s tallest building.
View ArticleSolar-Powered Plane Completes Flight Over US
A solar-powered aircraft has completed its history-making cross-country trip over the United States.The experimental Solar Impulse landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport
View ArticleNASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.The planet is
View ArticleResearchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake
Humanmade sound in the world’s oceans, such as ship noise or seismic testing, may interfere with marine animals’ ability to use sound effectively for essential navigation and communication.
View ArticleUrine Could One Day Power Cell Phones
Dr. IoannisIeropoulos from the University of Bristol is an expert at harnessing power from unusual sources using microbial fuel cells.
View ArticleKeys duplicated from digital copies stored in the cloud
KeyMe is a kiosk that enables anyone to cut a new copy of their house key from a digital file stored in the cloud.
View ArticleHamburger Grown in Laboratory
Today, scientists unveiled what they are calling the first hamburger to be made from meat produced in a laboratory instead of a cow.
View ArticleNASA's Space Launch System Program PDR: Answers to the Acronym
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Program recently completed its preliminary design review, commonly referred to as PDR. A quick inquiry of "What is PDR?" on a search engine pulls up everything from...
View ArticleMummy Juanita – Inca Girl Frozen For 500 Years
Momia Juanita (Spanish for "Mummy Juanita"), also known as the Inca Ice Maiden and Lady of Ampato, is the well-preserved frozen body of an Inca girl who was killed as an offering to the Inca gods...
View ArticleHeliophysics Nugget: Mapping Tons of Meteoric Dust in the Sky
Larger meteoroids cause bright flashes of light when they hit Earth's atmosphere, such as this fireball caught during the Perseid meteor shower Aug. 12, 2006. The bulk of meteoric activity is much less...
View ArticleSurgical tool smokes out cancer: method sniffs for molecular sign of certain...
A new tool could tell surgeons within seconds whether they are slicing through cancerous or healthy tissue. The tool, which analyzes smoke produced by electric currents used to cut or destroy tissue,...
View ArticleDrone smartphone app to help heart attack victims in remote areas announced
German non-profit organization Definetz announced on Friday the development of the 'Defikopter': a medical drone, launched by smartphoneapp, designed to be able to fly defibrillators to heart attack...
View ArticleAndroid lock screen ads earn cash for consumers
Advertising space on smartphones has now become prime real estate, and a new startup called Locket is enabling consumers to sell their lock screens in order to earn some extra cash.
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