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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.

A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest machine in a list issued by US and European researchers.

South Africa's east coast city of Durban is looking at the feasibility of turning the urine it collects from 95,000 dry toilets into fertilizer.

Do you feel as if it's a challenge to find entry-level IT hires who can enter your workplace with the basic level of professionalism that the job requires? You're not alone.

Modality, Inc. today announced the release of the Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy from Elsevier for use in the modalityBODY App for iPad. The complete atlas presents a healthy human body through a variety of modern imaging techniques, and is available for In App Purchase via the modalityBODY App. Users may also download a free sampler of the Imaging Atlas of the Human Body from the modalityBODY Store within the app, a place where registered users can access and purchase premium content.

Doctors from Pisa Hospital have conducted the world's first robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant on a woman in Italy.

Magnetometers developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the Juno mission to Jupiter were delivered recently to Lockheed Martin in Denver. Designed and built by an in-house team of Goddard scientists, engineers and technicians, these instruments will map the planet's magnetic field with great accuracy and observe its variations over time. Each of the two vector magnetometers carries with it a pair of non-magnetic star cameras to determine its orientation in space with commensurate accuracy. These were designed and built by a team led by John Jorgensen at the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the little carbon spheres throughout our Milky Way galaxy -- in the space between stars and around three dying stars. What's more, Spitzer detected buckyballs around a fourth dying star in a nearby galaxy in staggering quantities -- the equivalent in mass to about 15 of our moons.

David Hunter, Dean for Academic Affairs and Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, is the contact principal investigator for a four-year, $10.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue studying the genetic and biological mechanisms that contribute to cancer. The new study aims to discover additional genetic variants associated with risk of breast cancer; characterize the function of variants discovered to date; and assess how these may interact with environmental factors and what their utility may be in predicting breast cancer risk — ideally leading to new insights that can eventually be translated into better ways of preventing and treating the disease. The grant brings together projects led by Doug Easton of the University of Cambridge, UK, John Quackenbush of the HSPH Department of Biostatistics, and Peter Kraft of the HSPH Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and numerous colleagues.

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and partner iRobot Corp. [NASDAQ: IRBT] today announced that they have received an initial contract with the U.S. Air Force to provide Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGV) to its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team. The contract calls for up to 70 model 310 SUGV robots, with an initial value of $3.84 million. The Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract will run through September 2012.