ASTRONOMERS FIND ONE OF THE OLDEST STARS IN THE MILKY WAY

https://www.universetoday.com/138450/astronomers-find-one-oldest-stars-milky-way/

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ZIKA VIRUS (03): AMERICAS, ASIA, RESEARCH, OBSERVATIONS

http://www.promedmail.org/post/5600535

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Synchronized Galactic Orbit Challenges Our Best Theory of How the Universe Works

https://gizmodo.com/synchronized-galactic-orbit-challenges-our-best-theory-1822631071

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"Passwords: 4 Biometric Tokens and How They Can Be Beaten"

https://www.darkreading.com/operations/passwords-4-biometric-tokens-and-how-they-can-be-beaten/a/d-id/1330939

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It's almost F🌡 R💽 I📻 D🖥 A🔩 Y!

ALMA Discovers Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules in Nearby Galaxy

https://scitechdaily.com/alma-discovers-surprisingly-complex-organic-molecules-in-nearby-galaxy/

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When I was young, Carl Sagan's Cosmos series brought home so much for me -- science, our place in the universe, even politics.

I sometimes wonder what Sagan would have thought of things we've learned in the 22 years since his death. He missed out on a lot.

I'll never forget Episode 8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEkIuJ0QLE

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The Search for Dark Matter: an overview

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.08128.pdf

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Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting

https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/01/27/0653225/two-more-gamers-may-be-charged-in-fatal-kansas-swat-shooting

Putting The Sister In Solar: The Movement Bringing Women Out Of Energy Poverty

"For Africans living in rural areas, electricity is scarce and unlikely to arrive any time soon. In rural Tanzania, just 7% of people have access to power and approximately 70 million people outside of Nigeria’s cities are without electricity.

. . .

" These are the issues that disproportionately affect women."

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/27/putting-sister-solar-movement-bringing-women-energy-poverty

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NIST's superconducting synapse may be missing piece for 'artificial brains'

"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that 'learns' like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in future computers operating like the human brain.

. . .

"'The NIST synapse has lower energy needs than the human synapse...'"

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nist-superconducting-synapse-piece-artificial.html

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Here's How Graphene Makes Photodetectors 100,000 Times More Responsive Than Silicon

"While the mechanism may not be too different than semiconductor photodetectors, these devices are based on proton transport as opposed with all current photodetectors today, which are based on electron transport."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/graphene-photodetectors-100000-times-more-responsive-than-silicon-photodiodes

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NASA’S INSIGHT LANDER SPREADS ITS SOLAR WINGS. IT’LL FLY TO MARS IN MAY, 2018

"May 2018 is the launch window for NASA’s next mission to Mars, the InSight Lander. InSight is the next member of what could be called a fleet of human vehicles destined for Mars. But rather than working on the question of Martian habitability or suitability for life, InSight will try to understand the deeper structure of Mars."

https://www.universetoday.com/138376/nasas-insight-lander-spreads-solar-wings-itll-fly-mars-may-2018/

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Here’s why the epidemic of malicious ads grew so much worse last year

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/malvertising-factory-with-28-fake-agencies-delivered-1-billion-ads-in-2017

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State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2017

https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2017

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The Effects of the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities

"Spectre and Meltdown aren't anomalies. They represent a new area to look for vulnerabilities and a new avenue of attack. They're the future of security­ -- and it doesn't look good for the defenders."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/01/the_effects_of_3.html

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