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Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/BZ4_Vyub25Y/Keeping-Pacemakers-Safe-From-Hackers
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control have now developed a scheme for protecting implantable medical devices against wireless attacks. The approach relies on using ultrasound waves to determine the exact distance between a medical device and the wireless reader attempting to communicate with it." I had no idea that things have gotten so bad that hearts are being hacked.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1559253/Keeping-Pacemakers-Safe-From-Hackers?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/1559253"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1559253/Keeping-Pacemakers-Safe-From-Hackers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/fGrVnABLQds/90-of-200-CUNY-Students-Cant-Do-Basic-Algebra-Problems
vvaduva writes "Basic algebra involving fractions and decimals stumped a group of City University of New York freshmen — suggesting city schools aren't preparing them, a CUNY report shows. During their first math class at one of CUNY's four-year colleges, 90% of 200 students tested couldn't solve a simple algebra problem, the report by the CUNY Council of Math Chairs found. Only a third could convert a fraction into a decimal."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/206240/90-of-200-CUNY-Students-Cant-Do-Basic-Algebra-Problems?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/206240"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/206240/90-of-200-CUNY-Students-Cant-Do-Basic-Algebra-Problems?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/5px1F2-L8hw/Bug-Wears-Armor-Made-of-Poo
richardkelleher writes "It seems it doesn't always roll downhill, sometimes it is armor. The case-bearing leaf beetle apparently protects itself by constructing armor made from excrement. Females of these species typically construct bell-shaped receptacles made of feces around an egg immediately after they lay one."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1553250/Bug-Wears-Armor-Made-of-Poo?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/1553250"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1553250/Bug-Wears-Armor-Made-of-Poo?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sxt8MeidBMVBGOak-hm-pqHdJL8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sxt8MeidBMVBGOak-hm-pqHdJL8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/5px1F2-L8hw" height="1" width="1"/>samzenpus2009-11-12T16:38:00+00:00idleprotection-you-can-smellscience44,4,3,3,0,0,0http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1553250/Bug-Wears-Armor-Made-of-Poo?from=rssNASA, European Space Agency Want To Go To Mars
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/vXDyZod-O2s/NASA-European-Space-Agency-Want-To-Go-To-Mars
coondoggie writes "NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are aiming to cooperate on all manner of robotic orbiters, landers and exploration devices for a future trip to Mars. Specifically, NASA and ESA recently agreed to consider the establishment of a new joint initiative to define and implement their scientific, programmatic, and technological goals for the exploration of Mars. The program would focus on several launch opportunities with landers and orbiters conducting astrobiological, geological, geophysical, climatological, and other high-priority investigations and aiming at returning samples from Mars in the mid-2020s."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1415240/NASA-European-Space-Agency-Want-To-Go-To-Mars?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/1415240"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1415240/NASA-European-Space-Agency-Want-To-Go-To-Mars?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ecI00CLy9otvziq1jt_6N-NFzmk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ecI00CLy9otvziq1jt_6N-NFzmk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/vXDyZod-O2s" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2009-11-12T15:47:00+00:00marsmerging-to-beat-their-competitorsscience120120,110,81,65,18,10,5http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1415240/NASA-European-Space-Agency-Want-To-Go-To-Mars?from=rssGreat White Sharks Visiting San Francisco
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/VjocvPISbu4/Great-White-Sharks-Visiting-San-Francisco
Ponca City, We love you writes "Juliet Eilperin writes in the Washington Post that while for years, humans have thought of great white sharks as wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore, it turns out we were wrong. Scientists lured 179 great white sharks to their boat with a carpet decoy designed to look like a seal, and used a lance to attach satellite tags with the aid of 2.3-inch titanium darts to track the sharks and discovered that Pacific white sharks spend months near the northern and central California coast between August and February, foraging among elephant seals, sea lions, and other prey. The sharks were spotted as far inland as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, east of the Golden Gate Bridge. 'It shows you how wild it is off our West Coast of North America. This is Yellowstone,' says Stanford University marine sciences professor Barbara A. Block. The fact that 'a major concentration' of great whites can ignore humans 'shows us the sharks are really minding their own business. The number of interactions with people is very small, considering,' says Salvador J. Jorgensen."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/0026221/Great-White-Sharks-Visiting-San-Francisco?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/0026221"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/0026221/Great-White-Sharks-Visiting-San-Francisco?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/LKYJWhDtVJ8/Mimicking-Materials-and-Structures-In-Nature
eldavojohn writes "From special organic molecules to organic surfaces with special properties to organic concrete, MIT's Technology Review takes a look at inspirations in nature that materials scientists are currently mimicking for human purposes. You may be able to name other fields that have turned to evolution for inspiration as well."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/0011257/Mimicking-Materials-and-Structures-In-Nature?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/0011257"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/0011257/Mimicking-Materials-and-Structures-In-Nature?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/CN-Ji5kgatw/New-Dinosaur-Species-Discovered-In-South-Africa
silentcoder writes "Scientists at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa today announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of dinosaur. The new species was named Aardonyx Celestae from the Afrikaans word for "earth" and the Greek for claw. Earthclaw is particularly interesting as it provides a crucial link between the early dinosaurs and the later giant Sauropods. It was discovered during a routine dig on a farm in the Northern Free State (South Africa's central province). Two other species were discovered on the same site, but their announcement will only happen later after further laboratory testing has been done."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/004247/New-Dinosaur-Species-Discovered-In-South-Africa?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/12/004247"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/004247/New-Dinosaur-Species-Discovered-In-South-Africa?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/GRoRv3sxvq4/Heart-of-the-Milky-Way-Photos-From-NASA
PBH submitted a link to a really amazing composite image of the Milky Way released by NASA. They combined infrared, visible, and x-ray images taken by Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra to create one beautiful image to commemorate the 400 years since 1609, when Galileo looked up.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1550233/Heart-of-the-Milky-Way-Photos-From-NASA?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/11/1550233"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1550233/Heart-of-the-Milky-Way-Photos-From-NASA?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/yxCD6D8sXT0/Unknown-7m-Asteroid-Almost-Impacted-Earth
xp65 writes "A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth — just over one Earth diameter, 1/30 the lunar distance — on Friday, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST, a 7-meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our planet. This is the third-closest known non-impacting Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey and was quickly identified by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge MA as an object that would soon pass very close to the Earth. JPL's Near-Earth Object Program Office also computed an orbit solution for this object, and determined that it was not headed for an impact." The article notes, "On average, objects the size of 2009 VA pass this close about twice per year and impact Earth about once every 5 years."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1810213/Unknown-7m-Asteroid-Almost-Impacted-Earth?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/10/1810213"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1810213/Unknown-7m-Asteroid-Almost-Impacted-Earth?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/TlMvynw4B4Y/US-Navy-Was-Ordered-To-Listen-For-Martian-Broadcast
MarkWhittington writes "It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960. The historians at the blog Letters of Note have uncovered a telegram sent in 1924 by then Chief of Naval Operations Edward W. Eberle instructing the United States Navy to listen for radio transmissions from the planet Mars."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1758233/US-Navy-Was-Ordered-To-Listen-For-Martian-Broadcast?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1758233"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1758233/US-Navy-Was-Ordered-To-Listen-For-Martian-Broadcast?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/jEoqnC4C-ew/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab
xp65 writes "NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. 'We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space,' said Michel Nuevo, research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 'We are showing that these laboratory processes, which simulate occurrences in outer space, can make a fundamental building block used by living organisms on Earth.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/232238/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/232238"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/232238/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3vfRQqwjKpBoOnvKJ_8nEj4CNY8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3vfRQqwjKpBoOnvKJ_8nEj4CNY8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/jEoqnC4C-ew" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-11-09T23:58:00+00:00biotechbut-not-as-we-know-itscience234234,225,190,124,34,26,12http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/232238/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab?from=rssWhat Computer Science Can Teach Economics
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/obTXDVicwvA/What-Computer-Science-Can-Teach-Economics
eldavojohn writes "A new award-winning thesis from an MIT computer science assistant professor showed that the Nash equilibrium of complex games (like the economy or poker) belong to problems with non-deterministic polynomial (NP) complexity (more specifically PPAD complexity, a subset of TFNP problems which is a subset of FNP problems which is a subset of NP problems). More importantly there should be a single solution for one problem that can be adapted to fit all the other problems. Meaning if you can generalize the solution to poker, you have the ability to discover the Nash equilibrium of the economy. Some computer scientists are calling this the biggest development in game theory in a decade."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2024229/What-Computer-Science-Can-Teach-Economics?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2024229"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2024229/What-Computer-Science-Can-Teach-Economics?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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futurity.org writes with news that Iowa State researchers have made a breakthrough that could eventually lead to a cure for Parkinson's. Identifying the protein that kills the dopamine-producing cells in the brain has allowed the researchers to disable it and could be the first step in the development of new treatments. "Now, Kanthasamy’s group is looking for additional compounds that also can serve to neutralize protein kinase-C. By identifying more compounds that perform the function of neutralizing kinase-C, researchers are more likely to locate one that works well and has few side effects. This discovery is expected to provide new treatment options to stop the progression of the disease or even cure it. 'Once we find the compound, we need to make sure it’s safe. If everything goes well, it could take about 10 years, and then we might be able to see something that will truly make a difference in the lives of people with this disorder,' says Kanthasamy."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1824234/Researchers-Neutralize-Parkinsons-Dopamine-Killers?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1824234"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1824234/Researchers-Neutralize-Parkinsons-Dopamine-Killers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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An anonymous reader writes "By 2030 [Japan] wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. The government has just picked a group of companies and a team of researchers tasked with turning the ambitious, multi-billion-dollar dream of unlimited clean energy into reality in coming decades."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1520226/Japan-Eyes-Solar-Station-In-Space?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1520226"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1520226/Japan-Eyes-Solar-Station-In-Space?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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antdude writes "The New York Times' Well blog reports that 'for some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don't necessarily lose weight.' A study published online in September 2009 in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results. In the study, 58 obese people completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets. The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that. How can that be?"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0556210/Why-Doesnt-Exercise-Lead-To-Weight-Loss?from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/0556210"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0556210/Why-Doesnt-Exercise-Lead-To-Weight-Loss?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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