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Law Enforcement Websites Under Attack By Hackers
Science & Tech  (tags: computer, computers, habitat, humans, interesting, internet, investigation, news, society, tech, technology, world )

John
- 111 days ago - windstream.net
Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous
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NTSB Recommends Ban on Driver Cell-Phone Use
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, research, safety, law, driving while texting, death, selfish attitudes, stupidity, focus, study, investigation, tech, environment, news )

Cal
- 164 days ago - azcentral.com
States should ban all driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic devices, except in emergencies, the National Transportation Board said
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3D Solar System Scope Simulator
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, space, science, tech, stars, night-sky, 3D, model, simulation, planets, interesting, simulator, solar-system, universe )

PinkMindy
- 165 days ago - syix.com
Interactive 3D model of our Solar System Planets and Night Sky with individual star identification. Using this you no longer need a high-powered telescope. Control your date-time observations zooming in and out with alternate views. Cool stuff that rocks!
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Mars Rover Curiosity Takes Off - NASA Science
Science & Tech  (tags: Mars Rover, New, technology, scientists, Planet, research, study, investigation, nasa, news, NewTechnology, space, interesting, environment, computers, design, Gizmos, science, concept, habitat, discovery, tech, world )

Elizabeth
- 180 days ago - science.nasa.gov
"We are very excited about sending the world's most advanced scientific laboratory to Mars," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "MSL will tell us critical things we need to know about Mars, and while it advances science, we'll be working on the....
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Is the New Physics Here? Atom Smashers Get An Antimatter Surprise | Large Hadron Collider LHCb | Matter & Antimatter Asymmetry &
Science & Tech  (tags: Discovery, research, study, tech, performance, Gizmos, interesting, scientists, news, world )

Elizabeth
- 188 days ago - space.com
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile (27 km) circular particle accelerator underground near Geneva, Switzerland, have been colliding protons at high speeds to create explosions of energy. From this energy many subatomic particles are...
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Sahara Solar Power Plans Could Suck Up 20% of Region's Water - Tech Change Needed
Science & Tech  (tags: Sahara, Solar, Power, Plans, Could, Suck, Up, 20% of, Region's, Water, Tech, Change, Needed )

Agnes
- 202 days ago - treehugger.com
Tapping into the Sahara Desert's vast solar power potential (not to mention wind power) seems like a great idea -- and the first solar power project of the massive Desertec project is scheduled to start construction soon. But should concentrating solar
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Getting Arrested at Occupy Wall Street? There's An App for That
Science & Tech  (tags: Gizmos, tech, safety, app, OWS, phone, free download )

Jelica
- 214 days ago - brooklynpaper.com
Midwood-based software developer Jason Van Anden has created a smartphone application tailored to the Occupy Wall Street crowd -- a program that allows you to send a mass text message at the moment you are getting collared by cops.
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Quantum Levitation of An Object---Video
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, energy, humans, interesting, news, NewTechnology, science, world, tech, technology )

Kenneth
- 217 days ago - sync.sympatico.ca
Watch a supercooled object levitate in the air above a magnet. Position can be changed, can move along a magnetic strip etc. Super neat weird and wonderful. Should be an application for this in the future.
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To Fight Oil Spills, An Open-Source Swarm of Robotic Sailboats (Video)
Science & Tech  (tags: science, tech, To, Fight, Oil, Spills, An, Open, Source, Swarm, of, Robotic, Sailboats, (Video) )

Agnes
- 218 days ago - treehugger.com
Ask anyone who lives in the Gulf or the Niger Delta: oil spills are very nasty, and they don't clean themselves up. Chemical dispersants can make spills worse. And deploying hundreds of people in boats to run the clean-up presents a host of health
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Rhode Island Senator Does The Unthinkable: Takes A Strong Public Stand on Climate (Video)
Science & Tech  (tags: science, tech, A, Strong, Public, Stand, on, Climate )

Agnes
- 219 days ago - treehugger.com
Last week Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island has done what pitifully few members of Congress or the Obama administration have done lately: Take a stand, articulately, passionately, and accurately about climate change in an official
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NASA and Japan Create Spectacular Map of Earth (Video)
Science & Tech  (tags: science, tech, NASA, Japan, Create, Spectacular, Map, of, Earth )

Agnes
- 219 days ago - treehugger.com
Google Earth is the go-to software for viewing the planet in detail. However, a new topographical map created by NASA and Japan's Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument is showing up even Google Earth with a "global dig
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Federal Review Finds Little Evidence to Support Seal Cull
Science & Tech  (tags: science, tech, finds, support, seal cull )

Agnes
- 230 days ago - ctv.ca
As minister mulls seal cull, review shows little evidence to show they work As Canada's fisheries minister contemplates whether to approve a five-year cull of 140,000 grey seals on the East Coast, his own department has released a study that concludes th
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Online Gamers Crack Enzyme Riddle
Science & Tech  (tags: interesting, environment, discovery, design, concept, computers, medicine, health, humans, technology, tech, study, research, investigation, geneticengineering, NewTechnology, news )

Penelope
- 250 days ago - abc.net.au
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or World of Warcraft: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
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NASA Unveils Giant New Rocket Design
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Rocket, Design, Space, Science, Tech )

Katie
- 254 days ago - nytimes.com
To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago.
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Black Hole Caught For First Time Ever Consuming A Star! - Video   video
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, swift, star, space, astronomy, science, black-hole, tech, technology, youtube, video, news, x-ray, discovery, interesting, good-news )

PinkMindy
- 275 days ago - youtube.com
-- A Scientific First!!!: NASA's Swift spacecraft detected intense X-ray flare radiation and zoomed-in to capture for the first time a black hole swallowing a star!
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