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News Briefs 23-04-2010

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing…”

  • Mysterious radio waves are coming from an unknown object in a nearby galaxy.
  • Steampunk time-travellers or 1940’s hipster?
  • The Moon, electrified.
  • New, incredible images of the Sun, newly illuminated, thanks to NASA’s SDO. More here and here.
  • In case ‘we have a problem’, NASA has an escape plan. Not to be confused with the X-37. More here about the mysterious launch.
  • The ‘Masks of Identity’, Part One.
  • The source of the Zodiac’s glow, identified.
  • Creating a simulated brain, one memresistor at a time.
  • New, deadly fungus is on the move in Canada and US.
  • Not every orca is the same.
  • New hope for bionics. Calls to Oscar Goldman were not returned.
  • Dam construction in the Amazon moves forward, despite protests from locals and James Cameron.
  • Will one web language create a digital tower of Babel?
  • All hail ‘lungless frog’ and ’ninja slug’, coming soon to a cartoon network near you.
  • The importance of sounds while you sleep.
  • The last photos of Einstein’s desk.

Quote of the Day:

“We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

A. Einstein

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