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Cloud Computing to Aid Endangered-Species Conservation Efforts

A major network of zoos and aquariums in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific is implementing a cloud-computing solution to improve efficiency and encourage collaboration between conservation scientists.

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The cloud-computing solution will enable the system of zoos to spend more time and funds on the species that they work to protect.

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NIST's Top Tips for Evaluating Emerging Technologies

After five years of evaluating emerging military technologies, a team of NIST researchers is more than familiar with the difficulties and rewards of this process. The team recently released its lessons learned from the assessment.

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The SCORE framework allows technology evaluators to assess the potential of new tools.

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NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe

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Composite image of Chandra Deep Field South.

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Enterprise App Stores Harness HTML5

Software developers used to have to rewrite their apps for each platform they serve, duplicating their efforts for Apple's iOS, Google's Android, RIM's BlackBerry Playbook and Hewlett-Packard's webOS, but no more. Now, enterprise IT can provide universal HTML5 apps provisioned from cloud-computing resources to serve employees, regardless of platform.

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The Volt client application allows enterprises to authenticate their employees' mobile devices from the cloud-based Antenna Mobility Platform from which universal HTML5 applications are provisioned.

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New Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action

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This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life.

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Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011

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Trajectory of 2011 MD from the general direction of the Sun.

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Smarter Task-Transfers Use Mobile Cameras

MIT and Google have devised a method of transferring tasks between your smartphone and your computer by merely pointing the cell-phone camera at your PC's screen.

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Google’s Deep Shot, developed with MIT, transfers tasks from the desktop to a smartphone, or vice versa, by merely pointing the phone’s camera at the PC screen.

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Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon

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Dramatic plumes (cloudy, white areas), both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm

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Modern power grids are vulnerable to solar storms.

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Japan Retakes Supercomputing Lead

The latest version of the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday and, as expected, there are many changes.

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The K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science is the world’s most powerful supercomputer today.