Wednesday, February 22, 2012

22 FEB 2012, WED: Sci & Tech

Science


Physicists' atom-smashing quest inspires French movie director

GMA News - 
PARIS - Ludovic Bource, who composed the score for the Oscar-tipped French silent movie "The Artist," hopes to set to music the mammoth scientific quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the "God particle.

Plant blooms again after spending 32000 years in permafrost

Irish Times - 
SCIENTISTS HAVE revived a fertile plant from the remains of its 32000-year-old fruit found deep in the Siberian ice and buried within the fossilised burrows of ancient squirrels.

Environmental destruction in Palawan bared

Tempo - 
Philippines - The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) was asked yesterday to investigate and file criminal charges if necessary against local officials for allegedly allowing the destruction of Palawan's natural resources.

Space travel Code of Conduct aims to limit junk in orbit

Gadling - 
by Chris Owen (RSS feed) on Feb 21st 2012 at 2:00PM Decades of space travel activities have the Earth's orbit littered with space junk.

Development-weary Singaporeans back 'Green Corridor'

Sin Chew Jit Poh - 
by Simin Wang SINGAPORE, February 21, 2012 (AFP) - The air is crisp and sunlight filters softly through foliage punctuated by pink and yellow flowers as birds and crickets supply the soundtrack for joggers, cyclists and nature lovers.

Ancient Rock Concerts: Notion that Stonehenge was used for spiritual ritual is...

God Discussion - 
The New York Times reports today that a scientist says that Stonehenge might not have been a place of spiritual worship and ritual.

Dramatic rise in forest fires projected for Canada's West due to warming

Globe and Mail - 
Wildfires, which already burn more than 350 million hectares globally causing an estimated 340000 deaths, will double in number in the near future, leading forest-fire experts have warned.

What the Vikings can teach us about climate change

Responding to Climate Change (press release) (blog) - 
By RTCC Staff Norse settlers facing economic, political and climatic turmoil more than 600 years ago, could teach modern societies how best to respond to these shifts, according to scientists.

Alien Waterworld First of Its Kind Ever Observed

Voice of America - 
February 21, 2012 Alien Waterworld First of Its Kind Ever Observed VOA News Astronomers have discovered a new type of ocean-covered alien planet that is the only one of its kind ever found inside or outside our solar system.

Scientist admits he lied to get climate documents

MiamiHerald.com - 
By NEELA BANERJEE WASHINGTON -- A noted California scientist and environmental activist has admitted that he assumed a false identity to obtain and distribute internal documents from a libertarian group that questions climate change.

Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger

BBC News - 
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News, Vancouver Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year.

Blue-white Rigel is at the foot of Orion

EarthSky - 
The three sparkling blue-white stars of Orion's Belt are fairly easy to spot, even on this moonlit night. As viewed from this hemisphere, this compact line of stars can be found in the south to southeast sky at nightfall.

Dolphins: so smart they could be classified as 'non-human persons'

NEWS.com.au - 
Scientists want dolphins and whales declared 'non-human persons' due to their high intelligence and social skills. Picture: Escape Source: Supplied DOLPHINS and whales are so intelligent they should be recognised as "non-human persons", scientists have ...

NASA's LRO unearths recent geological activity on moon

The State Column - 
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken pictures of the moon's crust that reveal that recent geological activity may have occurred, according to a NASA press release.

Chinese 'fossil forest' found preserved under volcanic ash

DigitalJournal.com - 
By Leigh Goessl By Leigh Goessl. In a notable discovery, researchers have found a 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved in ash.

Researchers Develop Single-Atom Transistor

PC Magazine - 
By Damon Poeter Moore's Law could be safe for another decade or so. An international team of scientists has demonstrated a working transistor comprised of a single atom–nearly 100 times smaller than the 22-nanometer cutting-edge transistors fabricated ...

Russia regenerates 30000-year-old flower

CBS News - 
This undated photo provided by the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences show a Sylene stenophylla plant regenerated from tissue of fossil fruit.

Glenn marks 50 years since historic orbit of Earth

Boston.com - 
Sen. John Glenn talks, via satellite, with the astronauts on the International Space Station, before the start of a roundtable discussion titled "Learning from the Past to Innovate for the Future" Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.

UN agency issues flood warning as Danube thaws

Sofia Echo - 
People walk on the bank of the Danube River with piles of broken ice in Belgrade, February 20 2012. Meltdown of ice on the Danube in Serbia's capital completely destroyed dozens of boats, pontoons and floating restaurants.

Technology


And now (finally) the all-new Civic

Philippine Star - 
By Kap Maceda Aguila (The Philippine Star) Updated February 22, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Let's start at the end of Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) president and general manager Tatsuya Natsume's speech.

Facebook seeks to improve iOS app discovery

Inside Facebook - 
Facebook added additional settings to help native iOS applications get traffic from the mobile News Feed, search and other avenues, the company announced today in a blog post.

Mobile's Coming Costs Put CFOs on the Spot

CFOworld - 
The iPad/iPhone-driven BYOD trend means demand for mobile bandwidth is expanding exponentially. That's interesting as a reflection of the boom in mobile devices across consumer and enterprise markets, but means problems for carriers.

Apple Disses Proview CEO Over iPad Trademark Fight

Forbes - 
Apple, in the midst of an increasingly nasty fight over the iPad name in China, sent a letter yesterday to the CEO of Proview demanding he stop making “false and misleading statements” about Apple to the media and to the public.

Feds ID land in Az for renewable energy projects

TucsonSentinel.com - 
WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management has recommended 237100 acres of public land in Arizona are suitable for renewable energy development, part of an effort to speed up the process for clean-energy companies looking to set up shop in the state.

Kia Opens Largest Dealership in Metro Manila

Philippine Star - 
By Ulysses Ang (The Philippine Star) Updated February 22, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Fresh from the launch of its head-turning Rio sub-compact car, Columbian Autocar Corporation (CAC), the official distributor of Kia automobiles in the ...

Concepts at the Car Show

Canada.com (blog) - 
The Canadian International Auto Show is taking place in downtown Toronto this week. Car companies from every corner of the world have descended upon the city's convention centre to set up bright lights and revolving stages, ready to show off what their ...

'Shylock' financial malware making a comeback

GMA News - 
Computer users in financial institutions may have to be more careful in the workplace, as a financial malware is making a comeback.

PS Vita adds extra functions for North American and Euro launch

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
Maps, video recording, a new Facebook feature and support for Apple Macs are added to the PlayStation Vita on the eve of its general release in North America and European debut on February 22.

Message apps 'cost mobile operators $13.9b' last year

Ninemsn - 
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Nokia users get new mobile experience with Belle

Malaya - 
Based on a browsing data gathered by StatCounter, an invisible reliable web tracker, the Symbian platform is still the leading the operating system in mobile phones.

LG Mobile announces L7, L5, L3 Android phones to be shown off at MWC 2012

Ubergizmo (blog) - 
By Tyler Lee on 02/21/2012 03:23 PST Remember yesterday we reported that LG was teasing us on its Facebook page at an announcement they would be making today?

iOS 5.1 Reveals Quick Camera Actions From iPhone Lockscreen

MotoringCrunch - 
With iOS 5.0 debuting late last year alongside the iPhone 4S, it comes as no surprise that with the impending release of the iPad 3, Apple may release an update to their mobile OS.

Japanese-Egyptian team starts restoring King Khufu's second solar boat

Ahram Online - 
The northern side of King Khufu's great pyramid was brimming with media on Monday. TV anchors, journalists, photographers and archaeologists crowded to witness the Japanese scientific team take samples of wooden beams of Khufu's second solar boat, ...

Apple tests 8-inch iPad: Sources

TODAYonline - 
Officials at Apple's suppliers, who requested anonymity, said the tech giant has shown them screen designs for a new device with a screen size of around eight inches an said the company is qualifying suppliers for it.

'F1 2011' makes its play with PS Vita launch trailer

Yahoo! Philippines News - 
Formula One game F1 2011 is making its way to the PlayStation Vita as part of the new handheld's launch line-up, with a trailer here to highlight its selling points.

Cumulus Global & Google Apps Host Executive Briefing at Technology Summit

NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - 
Cumulus Global and Google Apps are hosting an Executive Luncheon at the Hartford Business Journal's e-Marketing and Technology Summit on February 29, 2012, at Maneeley's in South Windsor, CT.

Presidents Day Sales 2012: Where Can You Get the Best Online Deals?

International Business Times - 
By Surojit Chatterjee: Subscribe to Surojit's RSS feed America will celebrate President's Day, a day to honor the nation's greatest leaders, on Monday, but to many, it also means a day off from work and getting some of the best shopping deals of the ...

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