New Mars Craft Sends Back First Detailed Images

SPACE.com -- New Mars Craft Sends Back First Detailed Images

Extremely detailed pictures from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, taken from 174 miles, above the planet Mars. (I hope it is still a planet, this week ... ;-) )

PC World's 100 Fearless Forecasts

PC World - PC World's 100 Fearless Forecasts

Totally cool stuff, from the near future .... :)

I like, that Google is going to add facial recognition, to the next version of Picasa.

Processor, memory may marry in future computers

Processor, memory may marry in future computers | Tech News on ZDNet

A more thorough explaination of the memory connections, in the recent 80-core prototype processor that Intel developed.

Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched

Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched

They COULD have waited to Easter to discover this "buckyegg" .... ;-)

On the Rim of 'Victoria Crater'

On the Rim of 'Victoria Crater'

Amazing! .. These rovers are the "Timex Watches" of robotic rovers ... :) ... takes a licking, but keeps on ticking ...

SanDisk CompactFlash hits 16GB

SanDisk CompactFlash hits 16GB - Alpha Blog - alpha.cnet.com

Mercy!, Mercy! ... A memory card for ye old digital camera, that cost OVER a Grand!!

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was a new mother, say experts

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was a new mother, say experts�|�Tech&Sci�|�Science�|�Reuters.com

Quite interesting ...

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years | CNET News.com

Amazing! .. Intel has ALREADY created a prototype of this processor, and it does a TRILLION floating-point calculations PER SECOND. Imagine ... a desktop that runs at 1 TeraFlop ... in Five Years ....

Seattle Researchers Map Mouse Brain Down To The Cell Level

komo news | Seattle Researchers Map Mouse Brain Down To The Cell Level

Looks like Paul Allen got the 21,000 genes in the mouse brain, mapped for about 41 Million Dollars. This should lead to great progress in understanding brain disease in humans.

More HERE.

Hasselblad H3D

Hasselblad H3D | Digital Camera Review

Ah! .. Wouldn't life be sweet, if my next camera was the Hasselblad H3D ? ...... ;-)

Seeds 200 years old breathe again

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Seeds 200 years old breathe again

THAT'S what I call stamina ...

More HERE.

"Lucy's Baby" Adds to Early-Human Record

Photo Gallery: "Lucy's Baby" Adds to Early-Human Record

An almost complete skeleton of a 3-yr-old female, Australopithecus afarensis child. The 3.3 million-year-old fossil, nicknamed Selam, predates the "Lucy" fossil by tens of thousands of years, but some are taking to calling the new find, "Lucy's Baby".

Seitz 6x17 Digital shoots at 160 megapixels

Seitz 6x17 Digital shoots at 160 megapixels - Engadget

CHECK OUT THE MAIN SITE ... HERE.

For SLIGHTLY higher resolution ... (And I'm kinda Serious Here ... ) ...
.......... Please Purchase the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter .... ;-)

Go to the second link ... and hold your fingers vertically, and flat, .. and sweep them across the picture of the surfers in Hawaii ... side-to-side ... WHILE counting ... " One Thousand Mississippi "... ;-) ... THAT is the speed of the Fastest exposure time ... 1 second .... I think the fingers demonstration, shows that that is faster than one would imagine ... It is a Scanner after all .....

3D rock carvings recorded with simple equipment

3D rock carvings recorded with simple equipment - tech - 18 September 2006 - New Scientist Tech

Clever ...

Intel takes final hurdle on way to mass-produced silicon laser chips

Intel takes final hurdle on way to mass-produced silicon laser chips | TG Daily

Continued from yesterday, about the Intel breakthrough in silicon photonics.
"Photonic Interconnects" .... sounds a bit like Star Trek, doesn't it ... :)

One Terabit of aggregate bandwidth ... Incredible! ..

Seagate Says 2.5TB Drives By 2009

DailyTech - Seagate Says 2.5TB Drives By 2009

Outstanding!! ... But as usual, we will find a way to consume it, and more ..... ;-)

Major computing advancement will be revealed tonight

The Raw Story | Major computing advancement will be revealed tonight

This is one of those MONUMENTAL paradigm-shifts, that will take us in a new direction, that the majority of people, were not expecting ....

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE:
“Everything will change and laser communications will be everywhere, including fiber to the home.”

More HERE and HERE.

Hubble accident will not affect servicing mission

Hubble accident will not affect servicing mission - space - 14 September 2006 - New Scientist Space

SO ... Everybody keep your fingers crossed for a January 2008 Servicing Mission! ... :)

Researchers decode genome of tree for first time

globeandmail.com : Researchers decode genome of tree for first time

The Black Cottonwood Tree, is the first tree to have it's genome decoded. The timber industry is already making important discoveries based on looking at these newly decoded genes, and cellulosic generation of ethanol may be in the works, in the near future, from these reengineered, and chipped-up trees.

More HERE and HERE.

Glaxo's Avandia cuts risk of developing diabetes

Glaxo's Avandia cuts risk of developing diabetes�|�Reuters.com

Astounding reduction of 60 percent, in the likelihood of developing Type-2 diabetes, for those taking Avandia, as opposed to those taking a placebo. The reduction of risk, in coming down with Type-1 diabetes, was even better, at 62 percent.

Bionic Arms Controlled By Thought Alone

wnbc.com - News - Bionic Arms Controlled By Thought Alone

This is TERRIFIC !! ... I am so proud to see this happening for these people ....

Oldest writing in the New World discovered

Oldest writing in the New World discovered - being-human - 14 September 2006 - New Scientist

Perhaps 3000 year-old-writing, on a stone tablet, found in a gravel quarry, and almost used for road-fill. The epigraphic at the bottom of this article, is not to be missed. Some say the symbols are writing, and MAY be a Poem.

Former 'tenth planet' named for goddess of discord

Former 'tenth planet' named for goddess of discord - space - 14 September 2006 - New Scientist Space

I GET IT !! ... Named after the Goddess of Lawlessness ... Lucy Law-Less-ness ... ;-)

OR in this case .. since "Xena" was abandoned ... Lawless-Less ..... :)

The Joys of an Almost Unlimited--8GB--Memory Card

PC World Today @ PC World The Joys of an Almost Unlimited--8GB--Memory Card

Being able to capture 140 pictures-a-day, for OVER two and a half weeks, at 8 megapixel resolution, AND at the highest resolution setting, qualifies as almost "Unlimited" in my book too .... :)

I like the first respondents, idea about taking a cardreader/HDD along, on vacation, to do daily pix dumps.

NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Planned Flight Path

NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Planned Flight Path

The data about to start coming in, from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, should be phenomenal. It will be fabulous to see the channels, hidden under wind-blown dust and dirt, along with invisible craters, and WHO KNOWS how many, and to what depth, layers of water ice.

Ice caps are melting even in winter, global warming evidence mounts

Ice caps are melting even in winter, global warming evidence mounts

Like the article points out ... at this rate, the Arctic may be ice-free in summer, by the end of the century.

Samsung Declares 'Flashtopia'

Samsung Declares 'Flashtopia'   | Telecoms Korea

PRAM 64-Gigabyte flash memory cards, built with 40-nm NANDs would be SWEET !! ... Especially nice for a solid-state-disk for Windows Vista perhaps ....

More HERE.

Genetic Surprise Confirms Neglected 70-Year-Old Evolutionary Theory

Genetic Surprise Confirms Neglected 70-Year-Old Evolutionary Theory | PhysOrg.com

How species could arise that were incapable of breeding, and producing viable offspring, with their close-relative species, had always been a puzzle to me.
This article explains that it is accomplished by having a critical gene HOP OVER to a DIFFERENT Chromosome!!
From the Article:
"That was really exciting," says Masly. "It was completely unexpected and it made the cause of this hybrid's sterility very simple; the gene's on number four in one species and on number three in the other, so when you mate the two, every now and then you'll get a male with a combination that includes no gene at all. These guys are sterile because they completely lack a gene that's necessary for fertility."

Earth-like planets may be more common than once thought

Earth-like planets may be more common than once thought | PhysOrg.com

Suites me fine .... ;-)

Genetic map identifies close to 200 cancer genes

Genetic map identifies close to 200 cancer genes | Health | Reuters.co.uk

Fascinating ... 122 genes REQUIRED to mutate, in order for breast cancer to form ... and 71 genes REQUIRED to mutate in order for colorectal cancers to form. Of these, ONLY TWO are the SAME genes.

More HERE

Vegetative patient 'communicates'

Vegetative patient 'communicates' | BBC News

(FMRI) .. These Functional-MRIs are astounding. I mean .. the ability to SEE in a live patient, the rapidly-changing areas of the brain, where THOUGHT is occuring!

IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer

IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer | CNET News.com

Hitting 1.6 Petaflops, when it gets to the second phase ... :)

Google eyes filing cabinets

Google eyes filing cabinets | The Register

Open-Source (OCR) Optical Character Recognition from Google and HP ... Dusting-off the Tesseract engine ...

More HERE and HERE.

Located HERE. Files HERE.

The phone, the thief, his wife and a Chihuahua?

The phone, the thief, his wife and a Chihuahua? | CNET News.com

The Chihuahua is INNOCENT!! .. I tell you! ... ;-)

Majority of Dinosaurs May Await Discovery

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Majority of Dinosaurs May Await Discovery

Get At It Boys! .. Get At It !! ... :)

'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin dies

'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin dies - Asia-Pacific - MSNBC.com

Sometimes life demands risks ... other times they can be brought on unnecessarily.

Killed by a stingray barb ...

I feel sad for the wife and children he left behind ....

Mobile Internet to Become Faster Than Fixed Line

The Korea Times : Mobile Internet to Become Faster Than Fixed Line

4G in 4 yrs ... at least for SOME of us ...

Drinking juiced fruit and veg 'cuts Alzheimer's risk by 76%'

Drinking juiced fruit and veg 'cuts Alzheimer's risk by 76%' | the Daily Mail

Drink More Juice! .... :) .. Green Tea Too! ...

More HERE.

Engineered Immune Cells Beat Back Cancer

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Engineered Immune Cells Beat Back Cancer

Engineering genes to cause tumors to regress ... Smart ...