Saturday, March 12, 2011

DSoM Post Is Fusion Generation Just Around The Corner and UpState

Laser Heats Up Fusion Quest

The Target Chamber at the National Ignition Facility

Physicists at the $3.5bn National Ignition Facility (NIF) say they have taken an important step in the bid to generate fusion energy using ultra-powerful lasers. By focusing NIF's 192 laser beams onto a tiny gold container, researchers have achieved the temperature and compression conditions that are needed for a self-sustaining fusion reaction – a milestone that they hope to pass next year

Link: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45374

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4w2l7km

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From: http://physicsworld.com

Phase-Change Memory Becomes More Portable

Link: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45376

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6xb3jra

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From: http://physicsworld.com

PAMELA Data Challenge Cosmic-Ray Theory

Scientists in the European collaboration PAMELA say they have evidence that challenges the current theory of how cosmic rays are accelerated through the universe.

Link: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45322

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4v6ayf9

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Friday, March 11, 2011

DSoM Post 'Supermoon' Moves Closer to Earth: Rock The Week

The moon will pass within just 221,567 miles of the earth next week.

'Supermoon' Moves Closer to Earth

Will Arrive Next Week and be the Closest to the Earth

in Decades.

Link: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/857855-supermoon-moves-closer-to-earth-rock-the-week

Could 'Supermoon' Next Week Disrupt Earth's Weather?

Link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1364124/Lunar-perigee-Supermoon-cause-weather-chaos-Earth-week.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4ernsa2

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

DSoM Post: Where's Tyche, the 9th Planet?

"Looking Through the Clouds of Information, Wingman

probes the pundits questions:"

From: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/

On February 14th, the UK's Daily Mail reported the possible discovery of a planet four times bigger than Jupiter and lurking in the outer solar system. From there, the story quickly spread like a wildfire on the Internet, seeing coverage by mainstream outlets including the Huffington Post and TIME online. The tone of various news stories varied from “Tyche, Giant Hidden Planet, May Exist In Our Solar System” (The Huffington Post) to “Astronomers Question Existence of Solar System's Mystery Planet Tyche” (Fox News).

So, is there Really a New Planet Lying Out There?

Link: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/03/where-is-tyche-the-new-10th-9th-planet-getting-to-the-bottom-of-the-story.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

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TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4olznm4

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Monday, February 28, 2011

DSoM Post: NASA Goes to the Cloud with Ubuntu's Help

From: http://www.linuxfordevices.com

NASA Backed Open Cloud Platform rev'd,

Tapped by Ubuntu

Link: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OpenStack-Bexar-release/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/46c8ccu

Open source cloud computing platform OpenStack -- backed by NASA and Rackspace -- announced a second release codenamed "Bexar," offering stability enhancements, IPv6 support, internationalization, and more hypervisors. Meanwhile, Canonical will bundle OpenStack in its upcoming Ubuntu Linux 11.04, and announced a separate cloud-related deal with OpenStack partner Dell.

Canonical also publicly announced it will support OpenStack, another open-source cloud operating system, backed by Rackspace and NASA, in Ubuntu 11.04, Server Edition, expected in April.

Smarter Heads are in the Clouds

Link:

http://www.openstack.org

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

DSoM Post Listening to the Universe with LOFAR

From: http://science.slashdot.org

LOFAR Is the Largest Telescope on Earth

There lives a brand new piece of Europe's already-massive Low Frequency Radio Array radio telescope: a clever EU-wide installation that uses low-tech antennas and supercomputer-power data processing to transform into a giant mega-telescope, absorbing cosmic radio waves from the full sky.

From: http://www.motherboard.tv