TrES-2b is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the starlight falling on it.
TrES-2b, a planet orbiting a distant star is darker than coal, reflecting less than one percent of the starlight falling on it, according to a paper published on Thursday.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: It’s amazing how a single newscast can set the world on fire.
The very second Standard & Poor’s announced they had downgraded the U.S. Credit rating, communications systems around the world began to boil. Reaction time was critical and those who could react the quickest were able to position the negative news into something less negative, perhaps even a positive.
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The sensor is so thin it can be worn comfortably on the skin without the patient noticing it.
Monitoring a patient’s vital signs could soon be a simple as sticking on a tiny, wireless patch similar to a temporary tattoo. (Pic and video)
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Total video game sales fell 20% from $855.3 million in July 2010 to $687 million last month.
Video game sales have been dropping monthly. But, between June 2010 and June 2011 the drop in video game sales has been really big.
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China will surpass Japan in total media spending this year.
Advertising in China, still developing compared to countries like the US and Japan, is beginning to catch up to the demand of consumer-facing companies looking to expand their reach among the world’s largest population and its growing buying power. eMarketer estimates that by the end of this year, ad spending in the China will increase enough to make the country the second-largest advertising market in the world.
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Taking advantage of the wind in Iowa.
Iowa now gets a higher percentage of its power from wind than any other state in the nation. The Des Moines Register is reporting that Iowa’s wind generation hit the 20% mark last quarter, supplying the state with a full one fifth of its energy needs. That’s really good — like, Denmark good. Stats like this make it harder and harder for cleantech foes to deny that renewable power is fast becoming an integral part of the American energy mix…
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Do black holes NOT swallow everything?
New research by scientists at the University of York gives a fresh perspective on the physics of black holes. Black holes are objects in space that are so massive and compact they were described by Einstein as “bending” space. Conventional thinking asserts that black holes swallow everything that gets too close and that nothing can escape, but the study by Prof. Samuel Braunstein and Dr. Manas Patra suggests that information could escape from black holes after all…
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Artist’s rendition showing the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2).
DARPA has launched an experimental unmanned hypersonic glider from an air base on the central California coast.
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The NYPD has formed Facebook and Twitter units in order to track down and monitor criminals and criminal behavior on social media sites.
The New York Police Department has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
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Scientists have come up with a brand new drug called DRACO that seems to be able to hunt down and destroy any and all viruses.
Antibiotics, such as penicillin, can treat most bacterial infections. But when it comes to viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, antibiotics are useless.
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The new gene therapy to treat leukemia uses the patients’ own blood cells to hunt down and wipe out their cancer.
The first clear success with gene therapy to treat leukemia, turning the patients’ own blood cells into assasins that hunt down and wipe out their cancer has been reported by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Students love technology.
It’s a fact that college students are obsessed with technology. Key surveys were performed recently to gauge students’ tech use scientifically. And OnlineEducation.net has made an infographic based on results from the student/technology study. (Infographic)
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