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Space Observatory Provides Clues to Creation of Earth's Oceans

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New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered water with the same chemical signature as our oceans in a comet called Hartley 2 (pictured at right).

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Fossils Help Rev Hard-Hit Newfoundland Fishing Area

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Guy Narbonne, a paleontologist at Queen's University in Ontario, inspects a fossil at the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland. It is filled with half-a-billion-year-old treasures like this one.

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Three Scientists Share Nobel Prize In Medicine

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NobelPrize.org

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NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth

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NEOWISE observations indicate that there are at least 40 percent fewer near-Earth asteroids in total that are larger than 330 feet, or 100 meters. Our solar system's four inner planets are shown in green, and our sun is in the center. Each red dot represents one asteroid. Object sizes are not to scale.

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NIH to make a mightier mouse resource for understanding disease

Publicly available resource will add detailed medical information about knockout mice

Over the next five years, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases. NIH today awarded a set of cooperative agreements totaling more than $110 million to begin the second phase of the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP).

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World's Largest Academic Cloud

Not to be left behind in the dust of industry marching forward, academia recently unveiled their largest cloud computing platform, aimed at providing the petabytes of storage required for giant scientific simulations and big-data analytics.

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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud is connected to 10 other supercomputer sites nationwide on the high-speed TeraGrid network.

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3D Pico Projectors Grow at Double Digits

As sizes shrink down to palm-size pico projectors, and with a new injection of interest from 3D, double-digit market growth in projectors offers a beacon of hope that global economic uncertainty cannot dim.

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The thumb-size pico-projector's micro mirror is fabricated in the center of a thumbnail-size MEMS chip

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His Honor, Watson

Legal experts believe that IBM's Watson could be a major tool in helping judges interpret legal statutes. The machine could even appear as an expert witness during trials.

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In trials of the future, IBM’s Watson could appear on witness stands and in judges’ chambers.

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A new standard of street level imagery to be showcased at INTERGEO by BLOM

Blom is excited to bring a new product to INTERGEO 2011; BlomSTREET™ - Powered by Cyclomedia. On stand D43 of Hall 7, Blom will be demonstrating how geographically accurate street level spherical images, complete with metric capabilities, are an essential tool for street asset inventory, situational awareness for emergency services and responders, and road and waterworks, amongst others.

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IBM and 3M Herald New Era of 3D Electronics

A new era of 3D semiconductors will stack as many as 100 planar microchips into compact cube-shaped packages, instead of today's wide-flat packages, according to IBM, which has partnered with 3M to create the necessary adhesives.

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IBM and 3M are developing a new type of adhesive (blue) that can glue together up to 100 microchips into stacks of semiconductors that realize 3D electronics 1,000 times more powerful than today's flat, planar chips.