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Reblogged from Biotech Boardwalk: Standard-essential patents are becoming a hot topic in intellectual property law. Recently, Google agreed to a consent order with the Federal Trade Commission over its pursuit of injunctions against companies needing to use its standard-essential patents. In the latest development, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Department of Justice issued … Continue reading »
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today's installment of dirty space news asks the question: does albedo affect libido? that's how i interpret this research by aomawa shields and collaborators, anyway! the way a planet's climate behaves is caused by many factors, one of which is the the kind of light that shines from the star around which the planet orbits, and how this light reflects of the planet's ice and water. the amount of light reflected is called "albedo" and can be thought of as measuring the "whiteness"
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There was a Curiosity telephone conference this morning to make an exciting announcement: they're (almost) done at Glenelg and are preparing for the drive south to Mount Sharp. Allow me an editorial comment: finally!
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After spending the past four months drilling holes in rocks on Mars, the team controlling NASA's Curiosity rover has set a course for the $2.5 billion mission's ultimate destination, a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain in the middle of the crater where Curiosity landed 10 m …
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They're baaaack: Movies about aliens are invading the theaters again — in forms ranging from the evil villains of "Pacific Rim" to the benign federation of "Star Trek Into Darkness."
The saga of extraterrestrials menacing Earth goes at least as far back as "War of the …
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Although NASA's "Asteroid Initiative" has received early criticism, the technology developed to capture an asteroid could be applied to a future Mars sample return mission. Continue reading →
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Researchers generally don't care for the term "missing link," but in the case of the oldest articulated primate skeleton ever discovered, paleontologist Christopher Beard says the missing-link label might almost be merited.
"It certainly in some ways could qualify for that term, …
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The Kepler space telescope's target stars appear to be bigger than astronomers realized.
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Reblogged from The Nerd Next Door: When the Minor Planet Center cataloged the Rosetta Space Probe as an asteroid? Yeah. Me too. It was awesome. What with all the attention surrounding asteroid 1998 QE2 and its newly discovered moon, I thought I'd take some time to talk about my favorite asteroid of all time, 2007 … Continue reading »
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Un gruppo di ricercatori dell’University of Southampton stanno lavorando ad un progetto scientifico che potrebbe svelare i segreti della struttura del nostro Universo. Kostas Skenderis, a capo del Dipartimento di […]
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That’s about how much space stuff falls on the planet. I think that is an incredible amount, don’t you? Most of this comes in the form of dust the size of grains of sand. That is like a Blue Whale (the largest animal ever found on the Earth) a day falling from the sky. So … Continue reading »
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The Kennedy family name is laden with history and brings to mind a definite set of characteristics: glamor, power, intelligence, wealth, influence. Kennedys have had their name on a president, numerous senators, representatives, ambassadors, and other high office holders.
The Kennedy dynasty, if you wish to call it that, has seen its share of triumphs and disasters, of course. I need not go into detail; scores of books have been written about them, from putting humans on the Moon and the
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