BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Engineering Earth ‘is feasible’. A UK Royal Society study has concluded that many engineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change are “technically possible”. Such approaches could be effective, the authors said in their report. But they also stressed that the potential of geo-engineering should not divert [...]
New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute – Network World. Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use [...]
DailyTech – International Space Updates, September 2009. Japanese companies Mitsubishi and IHI have agreed to join a $21 billion project that aims to create a solar-power generator in space that can send electricity back to Earth. “It sounds like a science-fiction cartoon, but solar power generation in space may be a significant alternative energy source [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Create World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser. The new laser breakthrough may one day usher in a new era in computing power by providing CPU makers with the ability to use light rather than electronic circuitry in processors. The key breakthrough was a method that the researchers devised to squeeze the light into a [...]
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | We’re all mutants, say scientists. Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology. Scientists have been trying to get an accurate estimate of the mutation rate for over 70 years. However, only now has it [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Galaxy’s ‘cannibalism’ revealed. The vast Andromeda galaxy appears to have expanded by digesting stars from other galaxies, research has shown. When an international team of scientists mapped Andromeda, they discovered stars that they said were “remnants of dwarf galaxies”.
BBC NEWS | Health | Gel hope for brain injury repair. An injectable hydrogel could aid recovery from brain injury by helping stimulate tissue growth at the site of the wound, researchers say. Research on rats suggests the gel, made from synthetic and natural sources, may spur growth of stem cells in the brain.
