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Google has teamed up with Dish Network to offer a set-top box based on the Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reports. The box is sa...
Recent investigations into the role that social networks play in our everyday lives show that a lot more things than researchers initially thought ...
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The shadow of Saturn's moon Dione, cast onto the planet, is elongated in dramatic fashion. The moon itself does not appear here, but the shadow ...
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The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, lies approximately 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Orion. (Meade DSI Pro III CCD ca...
Between the grains of sand on the sea floor there is an unknown and unexplored world. Pierre De Wit at Gothenburg University knows this well, and h...
Google Inc and No. 2 U.S. satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp are jointly testing a television programing search service, the Wall Street Journ...
PIA12836: Ablaze with Infrared Light
[28 Seconds Ago] The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia.
s it a bird, or a plane? No, it's comet Siding Spring streaking across the sky, as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. This movie stitches together five frames taken by WISE as it orbited Earth during its ongoing infrared survey of the whole sky. The images span about eight hours of time.
The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia. The snowball-like mass of ice and dust spent billions of years orbiting in the deep freeze of the... Read More »2010-03-10 07:17:15 | comments
Carbon nanotubes can produce powerful waves that could be harnessed for new energy systems
[6 Hours Ago] Big Power from Tiny Wires: Carbon Nanotubes Can Produce Powerful Waves That Could Be Harnessed for New Energy Systems
A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say.
The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, "opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare," says Michael Strano, MIT's Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, who was the senior author of a pape... Read More »2010-03-10 01:19:41 | comments
Google Working On Android-Based Set-Top Box
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Google has teamed up with Dish Network to offer a set-top box based on the Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reports. The box is said to be operated via a keyboard and will serve YouTube videos straight to a TV set.
The partnership between Google and Dish Networks will allow users of the set-top box to search through video content from Dish and YouTube, and also personalize video playlists, sources close to the matter told WSJ.
Google has been testing the set-top box s... Read More »2010-03-09 16:52:34 | comments
Cooperation Spreads Through Social Networks
[17 Hours Ago] Many other unexpected things do too
Recent investigations into the role that social networks play in our everyday lives show that a lot more things than researchers initially thought are spreading through the connections that keep us together. Investigators have found, for example, that happiness, smiling, loneliness, obesity, and workplace-related problems spread through the networks, but now a new research has demonstrated that cooperation seems to do the same, by up to three degrees of separation. Studying the dynamic of human interac... Read More »2010-03-09 14:10:51 | comments
