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The Dawn probe spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral in September of 2007, used Mars as a slingshot in February of 2009 and has now reached the asteroid belt, where it will remain. Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt – [universetoday.com] The Dawn spacecraft – which is on a course to study the asteroid [...]

US cyber-warfare planning and activities have advanced beyond defensive measures. At some point, simply sitting back and waiting for an attack while piling resources into massive firewalls and other defenses, like the Maginot Line in WWII, no longer makes sense. It becomes necessary to develop at least an awareness of offensive techniques in order to [...]

Respirocytes are hypothetical, artificial red blood cells, capable of carrying extra oxygen and releasing it into the body and absorbing carbon dioxide and transporting it out. This could make it possible to hold your breath for several hours or to survive life-threatening events such as heart attacks by increasing the minimum response time needed before [...]

Electronic circuits that are transferred onto a thin film of silk can be implanted into biological tissue without being rejected. It is anticipated that this will enable bridging of neural interfaces and a wide variety of cyborg-like applications. Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics – [technologyreview.com] By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made [...]

Ernst Mach was born in 1838 in what was then part of Austria and now part of the Czech Republic. He was a physicist and philosopher and studied wave dynamics, fluid mechanics and shock waves. He was the first to study super-sonic motion. Multiples of the speed of sound are now designated by numbers named [...]

Computational techniques that mimic the process of biological evolution are considered to be “evolutionary computation”. This is an umbrella term that can include the areas known as; evolutionary/genetic algorithms, evolutionary/genetic programming, evolutionary/genetic strategies and more. Biological evolution works through a somewhat random or haphazard insertion of mutations and other variations that produce diversification in biological [...]

German magazine Der Spiegel describes how a computer hack by the Israeli foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, enabled Israel to identify and eventually destroy a Syrian nuclear installation. How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor – [spiegel.de] In late 2006, Israeli military intelligence decided to ask the British for their opinion. But almost at [...]

Zeolites are microporous structures made of aluminosilicate minerals that tend to absorb water like a sponge. Because of their ability to attach positive ions and sort substances by molecular size, they are often referred to as molecular sieves. Database details 2.7 million possible structures for molecular sieves – [nanowerk.com] Zeolites can be viewed as “a [...]