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June 17, 2013

8:30 PM | Google Reveals Massive Iranian Phishing Scheme

Google banner in a Swedish parody parade Don't be evil! Wikimedia Commons A suspicious email attack leads to...nothing? Government email spying in the United States may have all the headlines, but America hardly has a monopoly on privacy violations. Google revealed a massive phishing scheme against users of Google products in Iran last Wednesday. Phishing is the malevolent cousin of Spam email. A phishing email looks legitimate, and contains a link that sends users to a page perfectly mimicking […]

8:24 PM | Dracula’s Children

Millions of years ago, some bats gave up their old habits of hunting for insects and tried something …

8:18 PM | Supreme Court rules natural genes not patentable

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday, June 13th, that Myriad Genomics Inc. may not retain exclusive rights to the use of DNA sequence information for breast cancer associated genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, stating that Myriad had not created anything new in identifying the genes. Continue reading →

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8:10 PM | How to Turn Your Cell Phone Into a Dolphin

New algorithm allows scientists to determine the shape of a room from the sounds of echoes

8:04 PM | A view of Halley’s Comet from the Lick Observatory on June...

A view of Halley’s Comet from the Lick Observatory on June 6, 1910

8:01 PM | Archae-Facts: Henry VIII and NASA! Welcome to Archae-Facts, the...

Archae-Facts: Henry VIII and NASA! Welcome to Archae-Facts, the place to find bite-sized chunks of Archaeological Trivia! Today, we examine the connection between Henry VIII and Neil Armstrong! Armour images courtesy of the Royal Armoury, Leeds. Thank you. via Archaeos0up.

8:01 PM | Unleashing Synonyms To Catch E-Book Pirates

Watch That Grammar Closeup of an e-book on a reader device by NotFromUtrecht on Wikimedia Commons New software automatically changes words and grammar in e-books. Sounds like a scenario that could have come straight from The Phantom Tollbooth's Dictionopolis. Researchers have created a program to catch pirates by their commas... to trap them with paragraph breaks. The new program, still under development at the Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, automatically creates subtle alternative […]

7:45 PM | Laser scans flesh out the saga of Cambodia's 1,200-year-old lost city

Laser-scanning technology reveals that the Cambodian lost city of Mahendraparvata, dating back to a time before Angkor Wat, was much more extensive than previously thought. The latest word about the high-tech hunt for hidden ruins came over the weekend in an on-the-scene report f …

7:33 PM | John Hersey isn’t read much anymore. Here’s why he should be.

Day 17 of Blogathon 2013 On August 6, 1945, an American plane called the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. A year later The New Yorker printed John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” in which Hersey described the cataclysm in the voices of six survivors. Hersey, who got the idea of focusing [...]The post John Hersey isn’t read much anymore. Here’s why he should be. appeared first on The Writer's Clinic.

7:30 PM | Hands-On with Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Game Capture Device

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7:30 PM | How Amelia Earhart Flew Across The Atlantic 85 Years Ago Today

Amelia Earhart, 1936 Harris Ewing collection via Wikimedia Commons From the Popular Science archive, the story of Amelia Earhart's historic journey on June 17, 1928. "First Woman Flies Overseas," republished in full below, originally appeared in the September 1928 issue of Popular Science magazine. On June 17, 1928, 30-year-old Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. "The flight of the Friendship is intended to point the road toward the seaplane […]

7:25 PM | Graphene oscillator circuitry reaches the Gigahertz range

Researchers make the electronic equivalent of "hello, world" and then some.

7:02 PM | PAY ATTENTION!!! The new episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart...

PAY ATTENTION!!! The new episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart is all about how our brain deals with information overload. It seems like every week someone tells us how the internet and the digital age are overloading our brains. Sure, sometimes it feels like we’re being fed more information than we can handle, and that we’re paying attention to the wrong things. Are we giving our brain a fair shot? I mean, it’s a pretty powerful device. I explore some science that show how paying attention […]

7:01 PM | Magnetic Graphene Clouds Can Be Made To Appear And Disappear

Magnetic Graphene University of Manchester Toggling graphene's magnetic field on and off could lead to faster, smaller electronics. Add another point to the list of reasons why graphene, the darling child of material physics, is a wunderkind. A team led by researchers at the University of Manchester has succeeded in turning magnetism on and off in graphene, an important step for the field of spintronics, the study of the way electrons spin in solid-state physics. Spintronic memory has great […]

7:01 PM | Seeing Pictures of Home Can Make It Harder To Speak a Foreign Language

Being exposed to faces or images that you associate with your home country primes you to think in your native tongue, a new study shows

7:01 PM | Transcendental Numbers - Numberphile via numberphile: Numbers...

Transcendental Numbers - Numberphile via numberphile: Numbers like e and Pi cannot be made using normal algebra. Discussing transendental numbers, algebraic numbers, pi, e and other stuff. Featuring Australia’s Numeracy Ambassador, Simon Pampena. Simon’s website: http://www.numbercrunch.com.au/ Transcendental Numbers (extra footage) - Numberphile This is some extra stuff from Simon Pampena we didn’t use in the first video! via Numberphile.

7:00 PM | Echolocating app will let you map a room with sound

Just as bats use sound to navigate, an app now being developed could help you find your way around using sound alone

6:45 PM | 2013 U.S. News STEM Solutions National Conference Begins Today!

As announced earlier, the Festival has joined forces with U.S. News & World Report to host the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference at the Festival Expo during the week of April 21, 2014 in Washington, DC – bringing together the largest K-12 STEM outreach event and leading advocates of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from the Solutions Conference. Today marks…

6:30 PM | Prometheus Riff with Rebecca, PZ & MST3K’s Bill Corbett & Kevin Murphy!

The schedule for CONvergence is up, and the SkepchickCon track is loaded with science and skepticism panels, hands-on workshops, and more, including Prometheus Debunked, a live riffing of that gawdawful movie with Rebecca and PZ and Bill Corbett (aka Crow T Robot) and Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax fame. This panel and others, as well as hands-on workshops, science demonstrations, and nightly themed parties is happening in less than 3 weeks! Find out more […]

6:25 PM | Fish Diseases Threaten Food Supply In Warm Climates

Aquaculture industry may be vulnerable to disease outbreaks. Originally published: Jun 17 2013 - 2:15pm By: Tegan Wendland, ISNS Contributor Science category: Animals Biology Environment News section: Inside Science News Service […]

6:20 PM | Japan's 'Unbeatable' Air Hockey Robot Built to Study Human Interaction

There's a certain shame in losing a game of air hockey. The mallets are so big, the goals so small--it should be so easy to prevent that disc from slipping past. Of course, it's not so easy, but imagine that shame of loss being compounded by your opponent's complete lack of a pulse. It doesn't even have a head, really, just a cube with some orange circles for eyes and a flat red line for a mouth. Imagine losing a game of air hockey to a robot.You can, if you go to Japan. But you'd also have a […]

6:19 PM | Transportation Studies and Climate Change Modeling Net 2013 Blue Planet Prizes

Winners are a Japanese researcher who developed a climate supercomputer and an American engineer who studies the environmental effects of transportation systems

6:16 PM | Floating One of the Last Wild Rivers: Yampa Journal, Day 1

This is the Yampa, one of the Colorado Basin’s, and the nation’s, last wild rivers. American Rivers named the Colorado River the #1 Most Endangered River in the country in April, and protecting the Yampa is one important puzzle piece for ensuring a healthier Colorado Basin in the long-term. The purpose of this five-day trip is to bring leaders together to explore the value of the wild Yampa and discuss the river’s future. There are 20 of us – decision-makers, local officials, […]

6:15 PM | Wearable Computer-Socks Guaranteed To Be The Smelliest Computers You Own

Sensoria Socks Heapsylon They look less silly than Google Glass. Less silly than those toe-shoes too, actually. Fitness trackers are, slowly but surely, getting better. First there was the Fitbit (I mean, the Fitbit is still wildly popular, but it is the most basic type of tracker): a small pedometer with an app. Then there was the Basis Band, which added in real-world goals and more advanced sensors like a heart rate monitor and perspiration sensor. And soon, it seems, runners will have […]

6:00 PM | Super Cute Baby Cheetahs In this bonus episode, Elizke and...

Super Cute Baby Cheetahs In this bonus episode, Elizke and Desmond are thrilled to welcome four new fluffy faces to the Camp Cheetah family. Shadow’s newborn cubs provide hope for the future of the project, as these endangered cats will be prepped to eventually roam free in the surrounding reserve. But raising cheetah cubs is no easy feat, and everyone from surrogate cheetah mom Yakira to the family dogs gets involved. via Earth Touch.

6:00 PM | NASA Explains Curiosity Rover's 17 Cameras

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6:00 PM | The Bug Chicks: Putting the 'Art' in Arthropod

High school students blend science, art, and arthropods.

5:45 PM | What Mice Do When You're Not Looking

24/7 trackers give researchers insight into how mice mate, form social hierarchies, and more. Behold the rodent equivalent of 'Big Brother.' Turns out Americans aren't the only ones getting spied on lately. By hooking up groups of mice with precise trackers, researchers have gotten a closer look at how societies form. At least in mice, the answer is: fast. Weizmann Institute scientists introduced mice fitted with tracking chips into a square, 4-meter pen lined with video cameras. The […]

5:31 PM | Will new tectonic fault system kill the Atlantic?

A new zone of crust-swallowing geological faults seems to be opening in the Atlantic – the vast ocean may have "caught" subduction from the dying Mediterranean

5:30 PM | Ultrabooks Getting PCIe SSDs Soon

The two most notable features of Apple's latest MacBook Air refresh are power-efficient Haswell processors and fast PCI-Express-based storage drives. Those laptops are on sale now. On the PC side, we can expect Ultrabooks with Haswell to begin rolling out in the next few months, definitely in time for back-to-school shopping season. And some of those new ultrabooks will get PCIe storage, courtesy of Samsung's newly announced XP941 series of SSDs. Samsung, who also makes the flash storage for […]

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