Friday, May 10, 2013
What happened to the ringtone?
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 18:01:38 EDT ]
In the early- to mid-2000s, the ability to play a customized sound for incoming calls -- usually a blaring few seconds of a favorite song called a "mastertone" -- was a fun novelty for people buying their first cellphones. But there has been a sharp decline in ringtone sales over the last half-decade.
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 18:01:38 EDT ]
In the early- to mid-2000s, the ability to play a customized sound for incoming calls -- usually a blaring few seconds of a favorite song called a "mastertone" -- was a fun novelty for people buying their first cellphones. But there has been a sharp decline in ringtone sales over the last half-decade.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Australia to see second solar eclipse in 6 months
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 09:18:18 GMT ]
By Joe RaoSpace.comA spectacular "ring of fire" solar eclipse will be visible from northern Australia Friday morning local time, treating lucky skywatchers in the region to their second solar eclipse in less than six months.During this week's annular solar eclipse, which begins late Thursday Eastern time due to time zone differences, the moon's disk will appear to be about 4.5 percent smaller tha...
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 09:18:18 GMT ]
By Joe RaoSpace.comA spectacular "ring of fire" solar eclipse will be visible from northern Australia Friday morning local time, treating lucky skywatchers in the region to their second solar eclipse in less than six months.During this week's annular solar eclipse, which begins late Thursday Eastern time due to time zone differences, the moon's disk will appear to be about 4.5 percent smaller tha...
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Buzz Aldrin envisions US leading way to Mars
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 09:18:19 GMT ]
By Tariq MalikSpace.comNEW YORK — The moon is not enough for Buzz Aldrin, the second man ever to walk on the lunar surface. If humanity is to truly realize its space travel potential, there is only one place it will find it: Mars.Aldrin's new book "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" landed in bookstores Tuesday to chart out a course that could put astronauts on the surface of Mars b...
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 09:18:19 GMT ]
By Tariq MalikSpace.comNEW YORK — The moon is not enough for Buzz Aldrin, the second man ever to walk on the lunar surface. If humanity is to truly realize its space travel potential, there is only one place it will find it: Mars.Aldrin's new book "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" landed in bookstores Tuesday to chart out a course that could put astronauts on the surface of Mars b...
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Pre-caffeine tech: Internet stalkers, Steampunk LEGO!
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 13:46:01 GMT ]
Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Here's a woman who used the Internet to make her ex-boyfriend's life miserable, for years after their breakup.Here's some students who built a robotic locker opener for disabled classmate.Here's how not to look stupid on Twitter. And here's why the Facebook phone flopped, in case you were wo...
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 13:46:01 GMT ]
Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Here's a woman who used the Internet to make her ex-boyfriend's life miserable, for years after their breakup.Here's some students who built a robotic locker opener for disabled classmate.Here's how not to look stupid on Twitter. And here's why the Facebook phone flopped, in case you were wo...
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Ancient quarry used to build Jerusalem found
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 15:36:16 GMT ]
By Jeanna BrynerLiveScience A huge quarry, along with tools and a key, used by workers some 2,000 years ago, have been discovered during an excavation in Jerusalem prior to the paving of a highway, the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) announced.The first-century quarry, which fits into the Second Temple Period (538 B.C. to A.D. 70), would've held the huge stones used in the construction of the...
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 15:36:16 GMT ]
By Jeanna BrynerLiveScience A huge quarry, along with tools and a key, used by workers some 2,000 years ago, have been discovered during an excavation in Jerusalem prior to the paving of a highway, the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) announced.The first-century quarry, which fits into the Second Temple Period (538 B.C. to A.D. 70), would've held the huge stones used in the construction of the...
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Search is on for Lindbergh's lost French rivals
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 15:58:13 GMT ]
By Eric NiilerDiscovery NewsSearch teams using underwater sonar, scuba divers and new accounts will try to solve one of the great aviation mysteries of all time: What happened to the L’Oiseau Blanc, or White Bird, a 31-foot long cloth-and-wood biplane that vanished while trying to cross the Atlantic from Paris to New York in 1927.The disappearance of the plane and crew has been the subject of deca...
[ Thu, 09 May 2013 15:58:13 GMT ]
By Eric NiilerDiscovery NewsSearch teams using underwater sonar, scuba divers and new accounts will try to solve one of the great aviation mysteries of all time: What happened to the L’Oiseau Blanc, or White Bird, a 31-foot long cloth-and-wood biplane that vanished while trying to cross the Atlantic from Paris to New York in 1927.The disappearance of the plane and crew has been the subject of deca...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Engage! Astronomers need your assistance to detect space warps
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 14:25:31 GMT ]
Think you can find space warps? Astronomers have recruited thousands of citizen scientists to look for exoplanets, galaxies, moon craters and other cosmic curiosities — and now they need your help to go after one of the weirdest phenomena in space-time: gravitational lenses.The Space Warps website gives Internet users the opportunity to sift through telescope images and spot galaxies so massive th...
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 14:25:31 GMT ]
Think you can find space warps? Astronomers have recruited thousands of citizen scientists to look for exoplanets, galaxies, moon craters and other cosmic curiosities — and now they need your help to go after one of the weirdest phenomena in space-time: gravitational lenses.The Space Warps website gives Internet users the opportunity to sift through telescope images and spot galaxies so massive th...
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Cosmic rays may spark Earth's lightning
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:15:14 GMT ]
By Charles Q. ChoiLiveScienceAll lightning on Earth may have its roots in space, new research suggests.Lightning flashes on Earth about 100 times per second, but what triggers lightning in thunderstorms remains mostly unknown. Especially odd is the fact that decades of analysis suggest electrical fields within thunderclouds have only a tenth or so of the strength needed to spark a lightning bolt.M...
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:15:14 GMT ]
By Charles Q. ChoiLiveScienceAll lightning on Earth may have its roots in space, new research suggests.Lightning flashes on Earth about 100 times per second, but what triggers lightning in thunderstorms remains mostly unknown. Especially odd is the fact that decades of analysis suggest electrical fields within thunderclouds have only a tenth or so of the strength needed to spark a lightning bolt.M...
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Robot learns to recognize objects on its own
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:16 GMT ]
When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on a table – and figured out how it could lift them.The researchers didn't even know the objects were in the room. Instead of being frightened at their robot's independent streak, the researchers po...
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:16 GMT ]
When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on a table – and figured out how it could lift them.The researchers didn't even know the objects were in the room. Instead of being frightened at their robot's independent streak, the researchers po...
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Rescuer Charles Ramsey becomes instant supermeme
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:31:46 GMT ]
Charles Ramsey, the man whose decision to investigate screams coming from a neighboring home led to the discovery of three women who'd been missing for years, is being celebrated as a hero — particularly online.A recording of the 911 call Ramsey placed as well as various television interviews are serving as fodder for the meme machine, especially his observation that "I knew something was wrong wh...
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:31:46 GMT ]
Charles Ramsey, the man whose decision to investigate screams coming from a neighboring home led to the discovery of three women who'd been missing for years, is being celebrated as a hero — particularly online.A recording of the 911 call Ramsey placed as well as various television interviews are serving as fodder for the meme machine, especially his observation that "I knew something was wrong wh...
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Syria Internet back up after day-long outage
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:59:04 GMT ]
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's Internet and phone lines started working again on Wednesday evening, residents said, after a day-long blackout left much of the population cut off from the outside world. Communication networks have been crucial for opposition activists trying to get out videos and information about a two-year conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people. Activists called the outage ...
[ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:59:04 GMT ]
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's Internet and phone lines started working again on Wednesday evening, residents said, after a day-long blackout left much of the population cut off from the outside world. Communication networks have been crucial for opposition activists trying to get out videos and information about a two-year conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people. Activists called the outage ...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Record star explosion 'eye-wateringly bright'
[ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:59:51 GMT ]
By Miriam KramerSpace.comTwo NASA space telescopes have captured what appears to be the most powerful star explosion ever detected, a cosmic event so luminous that scientists dubbed it "eye-wateringly bright" despite being 3.6 billion light-years from Earth.On April 27, NASA's Swift Space Telescope and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope spotted the highest-energy gamma-ray burst (GRB) — an explos...
[ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:59:51 GMT ]
By Miriam KramerSpace.comTwo NASA space telescopes have captured what appears to be the most powerful star explosion ever detected, a cosmic event so luminous that scientists dubbed it "eye-wateringly bright" despite being 3.6 billion light-years from Earth.On April 27, NASA's Swift Space Telescope and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope spotted the highest-energy gamma-ray burst (GRB) — an explos...
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Lava shows most of our carbon churns in deep Earth
[ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:59:52 GMT ]
By Becky IskinLiveScienceMost of Earth's carbon clusters deep beneath the surface, in hot mantle rocks that churn below the planet's thin crust."Most people probably don't recognize that the vast majority of carbon — the backbone of all life — is located in the deep Earth, below the surface — maybe even 90 percent of it," Elizabeth Cottrell, a geologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural Histo...
[ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:59:52 GMT ]
By Becky IskinLiveScienceMost of Earth's carbon clusters deep beneath the surface, in hot mantle rocks that churn below the planet's thin crust."Most people probably don't recognize that the vast majority of carbon — the backbone of all life — is located in the deep Earth, below the surface — maybe even 90 percent of it," Elizabeth Cottrell, a geologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural Histo...
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