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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Starburst captured: Students photograph exploding star in pinwheel galaxy

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:46 PM PDT

In the Pinwheel Galaxy some 21 light years from Earth, a supernova beams brightly, out-shining its cosmic neighbors and causing a stir among starwatchers.

iPhone turned into spiPhone: Smartphone senses nearby keyboard vibrations and deciphers sentences

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Engineers have discovered how to program a smartphone to sense nearby keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent accuracy.

Computing building blocks created from bacteria and DNA

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:19 AM PDT

Scientists have successfully demonstrated that they can build some of the basic components for digital devices out of bacteria and DNA, which could pave the way for a new generation of biological computing devices.

Cyber war might never happen

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:27 AM PDT

Cyber war, long considered by many experts within the defense establishment to be a significant threat, if not an ongoing one, may never take place according to one expert. He argues that cyber warfare has never taken place, nor is it currently doing so and it is unlikely to take place in the future.

Seeing through walls: New radar technology provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:27 AM PDT

The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new radar technology. Researchers have built a system that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture of the activity on the other side.

How the Milky Way killed off nearby galaxies

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:21 AM PDT

Researchers have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. More than 12 billion years ago, the intense ultraviolet light from these stars dispersed the gas of our Galaxy's nearest companions, virtually putting a halt to their ability to form stars and consigning them to a dim future. Now astronomers have explained why some galaxies were killed off, while stars continued to form in more distant objects.

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