http://science.slashdot.org/News for nerds, stuff that mattersen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. serviceThu, 20 Jun 2013 00:32:42 GMTThu, 20 Jun 2013 00:32:42 GMT2hourly11970-01-01T00:00:00Zhelp@slashdot.orgTechnologyDice2013-06-20T00:32:42Zen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. servicehttp://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gifhttp://science.slashdot.org/http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/PYDN-2y48B0/story01.htmgurps_npc writes "Two radical pro-Israel terrorists were caught in upstate NY when they tried to solicit money from various honorable Jewish organizations to build a truck based x-ray weapon. They intended to drive the truck around and then turn on the x-ray machine, focusing on enemies of Israel. But the Jewish organizations they tried to solicit money from refused to participate. Instead they called the FBI, who promptly set up a sting. The men were arrested before the machine was in working order."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=2+Men+Accused+of+Trying+To+Make+X-Ray+Weapon+%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F192rM66"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F19%2F2235254%2F2-men-accused-of-trying-to-make-x-ray-weapon%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/2235254/2-men-accused-of-trying-to-make-x-ray-weapon?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/2235254/2-men-accused-of-trying-to-make-x-ray-weapon?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d869c7e/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665350795/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d869c7e/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665350795/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d869c7e/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665350795/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d869c7e/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/PYDN-2y48B0" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:29:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d869c7e/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C22352540C20Emen0Eaccused0Eof0Etrying0Eto0Emake0Ex0Eray0Eweapon0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuscrime2013-06-20T00:29:00Z2firing-the-cancer-gunscience2,2,2,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d869c7e/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C22352540C20Emen0Eaccused0Eof0Etrying0Eto0Emake0Ex0Eray0Eweapon0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/9qANzwGcxzA/story01.htmsfcrazy writes "A top Monsanto executive has won the prestigious World Food Prize. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the award where Robert T. Fraley, the executive vice president and CTO of Monsanto, won the prize along with two other scientists from Belgium and the US. The award was given for devising a method to insert genes from another organism into plant sell, which could produce new genetic lines with highly favorable traits."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Monsanto+Executive+Wins+World+Food+Prize+%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16LONpB"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F19%2F2212226%2Fmonsanto-executive-wins-world-food-prize%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/2212226/monsanto-executive-wins-world-food-prize?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/2212226/monsanto-executive-wins-world-food-prize?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d86bb1c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665257295/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d86bb1c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665257295/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d86bb1c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665257295/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d86bb1c/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/9qANzwGcxzA" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d86bb1c/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C22122260Cmonsanto0Eexecutive0Ewins0Eworld0Efood0Eprize0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusmoney2013-06-20T00:00:00Zbest-of-brandscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d86bb1c/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C22122260Cmonsanto0Eexecutive0Ewins0Eworld0Efood0Eprize0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/S9-Wq27cNrg/story01.htmastroengine writes "If you were in any doubt as to Curiosity's photography prowess, this panorama of Gale Crater should allay your concerns. In this billion-pixel photo from Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory snapped nearly 900 separate images that were then stitched together to create a wonderful high-definition view from the robot's mast-mounted cameras. 'It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras' capabilities,' said Bob Deen of the Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who assembled the scene. 'You can see the context and also zoom in to see very fine details.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Billion-Pixel+View+of+Mars+Snapped+By+Curiosity%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1bWU0eA"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F19%2F2014237%2Fbillion-pixel-view-of-mars-snapped-by-curiosity%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/2014237/billion-pixel-view-of-mars-snapped-by-curiosity?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/2014237/billion-pixel-view-of-mars-snapped-by-curiosity?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d855cf9/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665716421/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d855cf9/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665716421/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d855cf9/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665716421/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d855cf9/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/S9-Wq27cNrg" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:47:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d855cf9/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C20A142370Cbillion0Epixel0Eview0Eof0Emars0Esnapped0Eby0Ecuriosity0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillmars2013-06-19T20:47:00Zsee-any-good-landing-spots?science0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d855cf9/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C20A142370Cbillion0Epixel0Eview0Eof0Emars0Esnapped0Eby0Ecuriosity0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/EBgt-L-_yy4/story01.htmMarkWhittington writes "Politico reports in a June 18, 2013 story that House Republicans have added a Mars base to its demands for a lunar base in the draft 2013 NASA Authorization bill. Both the Bush-era Constellation program and President Obama space plan envisioned eventual human expeditions to Mars. But if Politico is correct, the new bill will be the first time an official piece of legislation will call for permanent habitation of the Red Planet. The actual legislative language states, 'The [NASA] Administrator shall establish a program to develop a sustained human presence on the Moon and the surface of Mars.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=U.S.+House+Wants+'Sustained+Human+Presence+On+the+Moon+and+the+Surface+of+Mars'%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F15ku8pb"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F19%2F1742217%2Fus-house-wants-sustained-human-presence-on-the-moon-and-the-surface-of-mars%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/1742217/us-house-wants-sustained-human-presence-on-the-moon-and-the-surface-of-mars?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/19/1742217/us-house-wants-sustained-human-presence-on-the-moon-and-the-surface-of-mars?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d849695/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665713997/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d849695/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665713997/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d849695/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665713997/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d849695/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/EBgt-L-_yy4" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:05:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d849695/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C17422170Cus0Ehouse0Ewants0Esustained0Ehuman0Epresence0Eon0Ethe0Emoon0Eand0Ethe0Esurface0Eof0Emars0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillmars2013-06-19T19:05:00Z2somebody-had-them-read-kim-stanley-robinsonscience2,2,1,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d849695/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C190C17422170Cus0Ehouse0Ewants0Esustained0Ehuman0Epresence0Eon0Ethe0Emoon0Eand0Ethe0Esurface0Eof0Emars0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/79F209gYBtg/story01.htmananyo writes "Physicists have resurrected a particle that may have existed in the first hot moments after the Big Bang. Arcanely called Zc(3900), it is the first confirmed particle made of four quarks, the building blocks of much of the Universe's matter (abstract one, abstract two). Until now, observed particles made of quarks have contained only three quarks (such as protons and neutrons) or two quarks (such as the pions and kaons found in cosmic rays)."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=First+Particle+Comprising+Four+Quarks+Discovered%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12Hqf1J"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F18%2F174244%2Ffirst-particle-comprising-four-quarks-discovered%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/174244/first-particle-comprising-four-quarks-discovered?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/174244/first-particle-comprising-four-quarks-discovered?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d76b13b/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665207929/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d76b13b/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665207929/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d76b13b/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665207929/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d76b13b/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/79F209gYBtg" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:48:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d76b13b/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C1742440Cfirst0Eparticle0Ecomprising0Efour0Equarks0Ediscovered0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillscience2013-06-18T17:48:00Zodo-is-going-to-be-busyscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d76b13b/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C1742440Cfirst0Eparticle0Ecomprising0Efour0Equarks0Ediscovered0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Rr3zY2QyUGM/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter ramorim writes "In honor of the Chemist Day, celebrated in Brazil on this day June 18, 2013, I publish a proposal for a new Periodic Table of Elements (Original, in Portugese) in a modular spiral-hexagonal model, with continuity and connectivity for all constituent units of the matter. This proposal indeed permits to extrapolate the hypothetical elements of the G-block and H-block in the same model."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Shapeshifting%3A+Proposal+For+a+New+Periodic+Table+of+the+Elements%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1bRJxRw"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F18%2F1527215%2Fshapeshifting-proposal-for-a-new-periodic-table-of-the-elements%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/1527215/shapeshifting-proposal-for-a-new-periodic-table-of-the-elements?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/1527215/shapeshifting-proposal-for-a-new-periodic-table-of-the-elements?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d754813/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665204997/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d754813/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665204997/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d754813/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665204997/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d754813/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/Rr3zY2QyUGM" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:02:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d754813/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C15272150Cshapeshifting0Eproposal0Efor0Ea0Enew0Eperiodic0Etable0Eof0Ethe0Eelements0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyscience2013-06-18T16:02:00Zsettlers-of-catan-eat-your-heart-outscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d754813/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C15272150Cshapeshifting0Eproposal0Efor0Ea0Enew0Eperiodic0Etable0Eof0Ethe0Eelements0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/heGlzg65KuI/story01.htmilliteratehack writes "NASA has selected a 39-year-old chief technology officer to become a trainee astronaut. Josh Cassada is the current chief technology officer and co-founder of Quantum Opus, a firm that specialises in photonics. Cassada is one of eight individuals selected by NASA from 6,100 applicants for astronaut training, though what their future mission may be has yet to be revealed." Of the astronaut trainees selected, four of them are women &mdash; a new record.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=NASA+Selects+8+New+Astronaut+Trainees%2C+Including+4+Women%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F100kPMw"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F18%2F1533238%2Fnasa-selects-8-new-astronaut-trainees-including-4-women%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/1533238/nasa-selects-8-new-astronaut-trainees-including-4-women?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/1533238/nasa-selects-8-new-astronaut-trainees-including-4-women?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d7543a3/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665204515/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d7543a3/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665204515/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d7543a3/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665204515/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d7543a3/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/heGlzg65KuI" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:40:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d7543a3/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C15332380Cnasa0Eselects0E80Enew0Eastronaut0Etrainees0Eincluding0E40Ewomen0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyspace2013-06-18T15:40:00Z2bruce-willis-in-the-wheel-well-with-a-pipe-wrenchscience2,2,2,2,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d7543a3/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C15332380Cnasa0Eselects0E80Enew0Eastronaut0Etrainees0Eincluding0E40Ewomen0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/4LoM4a62goQ/story01.htmtheodp writes "Bill Gates already called dibbs on polio, so British Airways had to settle for tackling the 'global misalignment of talent' problem, putting '100 of the most forward-thinking founders, CEOs, venture capitalists, and Silicon Valley game-changers' on a flight from San Francisco to London to 'innovate and collaborate to find an effective solution to this growing global challenge.' UnGroundedThinking.com showcases the winning concepts, which include Advisher (an online community to help foster women in STEM), INIT ('nutritional labels' to disclose products' 'STEM ingredients'), DGTL (rewards young women with fashionable clothes for completing coding challenges), Beacons in a Backpack (solar powered backpacks pre-loaded with videos, multimedia content, and game-powered educational tools that also serve as mobile hotspots for rural/remote areas), Tech21 (STEM education program aimed at 21-years-and-older post-college grads in the workforce), Certify.me (allows STEM talent from across the globe to audition for potential employers via standardized-quality assessments), and STEAM Truck (a mobile dance lab where STEM art installations teach kids that science is fun and valuable). 'This has the feel of Southby [SXSW],' gushed a Google Ventures general partner. "It's a serendipitous occasion. It's about time we presented engineers to kids as role models &mdash; not just firefighters, cops, doctors, detectives. Who knows? Maybe The Internship changes that.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=UnGrounded%3A+British+Airways+Attempts+to+Bottle+Some+Startup+Spirit%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14HMtj7"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F18%2F135240%2Fungrounded-british-airways-attempts-to-bottle-some-startup-spirit%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/135240/ungrounded-british-airways-attempts-to-bottle-some-startup-spirit?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/135240/ungrounded-british-airways-attempts-to-bottle-some-startup-spirit?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d73728d/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665293149/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d73728d/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665293149/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d73728d/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665293149/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d73728d/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/4LoM4a62goQ" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:27:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d73728d/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C135240A0Cungrounded0Ebritish0Eairways0Eattempts0Eto0Ebottle0Esome0Estartup0Espirit0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothybusiness2013-06-18T13:27:00Z8brainstorming-dammit-not-barnstormingtechnology8,7,4,2,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d73728d/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C180C135240A0Cungrounded0Ebritish0Eairways0Eattempts0Eto0Ebottle0Esome0Estartup0Espirit0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/-_g5N-GYXDM/story01.htmsciencehabit writes "Show a native-born Chinese person a picture of the Great Wall, and suddenly they'll have trouble speaking English, even if they usually speak it fluently. That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that reminders of our home country can complicate our ability to speak a new language. The findings could help explain why cultural immersion is the most effective way to learn a foreign tongue and why immigrants who settle within an ethnic enclave acculturate more slowly than those who surround themselves with friends from their new country."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+To+Learn+a+Foreign+Language%3F+Avoid+Reminders+of+Home%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19egPe4"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F2233245%2Ftrying-to-learn-a-foreign-language-avoid-reminders-of-home%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/2233245/trying-to-learn-a-foreign-language-avoid-reminders-of-home?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/2233245/trying-to-learn-a-foreign-language-avoid-reminders-of-home?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6b37d4/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666181389/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6b37d4/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666181389/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6b37d4/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666181389/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6b37d4/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/-_g5N-GYXDM" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:43:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6b37d4/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C22332450Ctrying0Eto0Elearn0Ea0Eforeign0Elanguage0Eavoid0Ereminders0Eof0Ehome0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerscience2013-06-17T23:43:00Zwhat-about-esperantoscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6b37d4/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C22332450Ctrying0Eto0Elearn0Ea0Eforeign0Elanguage0Eavoid0Ereminders0Eof0Ehome0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Cgd4JzLe1PE/story01.htmsciencehabit writes "In a few years, an iPhone app may give you a 3D layout of a room as soon as you step into it. Researchers have developed an algorithm that spits out the shape and contours of complex structures (including Switzerland's Lausanne Cathedral) using data compiled from four randomly placed microphones. The technology, which relies on the same sort of echolocation bats and dolphins use to navigate, could be used to develop more realistic echoes in video games and virtual reality simulations and to eliminate the echo from phone calls."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Echolocation+For+Your+Cell+Phone%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10rmfCb"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F2038207%2Fecholocation-for-your-cell-phone%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/2038207/echolocation-for-your-cell-phone?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/2038207/echolocation-for-your-cell-phone?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6abed1/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666178690/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6abed1/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666178690/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6abed1/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666178690/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6abed1/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/Cgd4JzLe1PE" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:32:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6abed1/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C20A3820A70Cecholocation0Efor0Eyour0Ecell0Ephone0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusscience2013-06-17T21:32:00Z7map-it-outscience7,6,5,3,1,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6abed1/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C20A3820A70Cecholocation0Efor0Eyour0Ecell0Ephone0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/34PkMUaX66s/story01.htmLasrick writes "Evie Sobczak won a trip to Jet Propulsion Lab for her biofuel invention: 'For a fifth-grade science fair, Evie Sobczak found that the acid in fruit could power clocks; she connected a cut-up orange to a clock with wire and watched it tick. In seventh grade, she generated power by engineering paddles that could harness wind. And in eighth grade, she started a project that eventually would become her passion: She wanted to grow algae and turn it into biofuel.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Teen's+Biofuel+Invention+Turns+Algae+Into+Fuel%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11tGvOO"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F1945215%2Fteens-biofuel-invention-turns-algae-into-fuel%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/1945215/teens-biofuel-invention-turns-algae-into-fuel?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/1945215/teens-biofuel-invention-turns-algae-into-fuel?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6adbe1/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665094370/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6adbe1/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665094370/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6adbe1/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665094370/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6adbe1/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/34PkMUaX66s" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:03:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6adbe1/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C19452150Cteens0Ebiofuel0Einvention0Eturns0Ealgae0Einto0Efuel0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusbiotech2013-06-17T21:03:00Z3muck-in-the-truckscience3,3,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6adbe1/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C19452150Cteens0Ebiofuel0Einvention0Eturns0Ealgae0Einto0Efuel0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/tQsxWprECxk/story01.htmkkleiner writes "A self-described think tank of engineers and inventors called Two Bit Circus have completed a successful crowdfunding campaign to launch a high tech reinvention of carnivals from yesteryear. The campaign raised over $100k to launch the STEAM Carnival (as in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) to take place in Los Angeles and San Francisco next year. Showcasing robots, fire, and lasers, the goal of the carnival is to inspire young people into science and technology through these entertaining and educational events."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=High+TechCarnival+Aims+To+Entertain%2C+Inspire%2C+and+Educate%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18SFTdX"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F1939249%2Fhigh-techcarnival-aims-to-entertain-inspire-and-educate%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/1939249/high-techcarnival-aims-to-entertain-inspire-and-educate?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/1939249/high-techcarnival-aims-to-entertain-inspire-and-educate?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6a5c8d/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665171989/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6a5c8d/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665171989/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6a5c8d/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665171989/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6a5c8d/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/tQsxWprECxk" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:45:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6a5c8d/l/0Lentertainment0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C19392490Chigh0Etechcarnival0Eaims0Eto0Eentertain0Einspire0Eand0Eeducate0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuseducation2013-06-17T20:45:00Z24don't-send-in-the-cyborg-clownsentertainment24,24,19,15,6,2,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6a5c8d/l/0Lentertainment0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C19392490Chigh0Etechcarnival0Eaims0Eto0Eentertain0Einspire0Eand0Eeducate0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/IrKCyKQmF64/story01.htmMTorrice writes "A surprising suite of microbial species colonizes plastic waste floating in the ocean, according to a new study. The bacteria appeared to burrow pits into the plastic. One possible explanation is that bacteria eat into the polymers, weakening the pieces enough to cause them to break down more quickly and eventually sink to the sea floor. While the microbes could speed the plastic's decay, they might also cause their own ecological problems, the researchers say."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ocean+Plastics+Host+Surprising+Microbial+Array%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11KOXco"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F190225%2Focean-plastics-host-surprising-microbial-array%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/190225/ocean-plastics-host-surprising-microbial-array?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/190225/ocean-plastics-host-surprising-microbial-array?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6a46b5/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665633384/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6a46b5/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665633384/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6a46b5/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665633384/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d6a46b5/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/IrKCyKQmF64" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:59:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6a46b5/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C190A2250Cocean0Eplastics0Ehost0Esurprising0Emicrobial0Earray0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusscience2013-06-17T19:59:00Z1life-will-find-a-wayscience1,1,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d6a46b5/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C190A2250Cocean0Eplastics0Ehost0Esurprising0Emicrobial0Earray0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/tsbZMXPi5-E/story01.htmZothecula writes "Applied DNA Sciences (ADNAS) has developed a new approach to solve crimes using DNA tagging. The difference is that instead of tagging the objects being stolen, the company's system tags the perpetrator with DNA. While this has been tried before by applying the DNA to a fleeing criminal with a gun, ADNAS has adopted a more subtle approach."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=DNA+Fog+Helps+Identify+Trespassers%2C+Thieves%2C+and+Brigands%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZXKFRs"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F1536238%2Fdna-fog-helps-identify-trespassers-thieves-and-brigands%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/1536238/dna-fog-helps-identify-trespassers-thieves-and-brigands?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/1536238/dna-fog-helps-identify-trespassers-thieves-and-brigands?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d68a9da/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666172087/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d68a9da/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666172087/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d68a9da/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666172087/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d68a9da/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/tsbZMXPi5-E" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:45:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d68a9da/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C15362380Cdna0Efog0Ehelps0Eidentify0Etrespassers0Ethieves0Eand0Ebrigands0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusbiotech2013-06-17T16:45:00Z1you're-covered-in-itscience1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d68a9da/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C15362380Cdna0Efog0Ehelps0Eidentify0Etrespassers0Ethieves0Eand0Ebrigands0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/4IjAoOyQQ2Q/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter Rebecka Schumann writes "Ontario couple Ken Campbell and Nicole Sauve said a recent fence installation led them to discover what is being labeled a historical find. Sauve, who said the duo originally believed the skeleton to be from bones of an animal, called the Ontario Provincial Police to investigate; Forensic Anthropologist Michael Spence confirmed the bones were that of an aboriginal woman who died at age 24 between the late 1500s to the early 1600s. In spite of reporting their find and Spence's evaluation, Suave and Campbell were told they were required to hire an archeologist to assess their property at their own expense under Ontario's Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act. The act, which requires evaluation for all properties found to house human remains, has the Canadian couple stuck with a big bill."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Canadian+Couple+Charged+%245k+For+Finding+400-Year-Old+Skeleton%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F17g8No2"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F17%2F134237%2Fcanadian-couple-charged-5k-for-finding-400-year-old-skeleton%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/134237/canadian-couple-charged-5k-for-finding-400-year-old-skeleton?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/17/134237/canadian-couple-charged-5k-for-finding-400-year-old-skeleton?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d677cc9/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666167610/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d677cc9/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666167610/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d677cc9/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666167610/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d677cc9/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/4IjAoOyQQ2Q" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:24:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d677cc9/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C1342370Ccanadian0Ecouple0Echarged0E5k0Efor0Efinding0E40A0A0Eyear0Eold0Eskeleton0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuscanada2013-06-17T14:24:00Z4you-found-it-you-bought-itscience4,4,2,2,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d677cc9/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C170C1342370Ccanadian0Ecouple0Echarged0E5k0Efor0Efinding0E40A0A0Eyear0Eold0Eskeleton0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/g0B9pYQQyOk/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter steve_mark66 writes "Australian archaeologists using remote-sensing technology have uncovered an ancient city in Cambodia that has remained hidden for more than a millennium under dense jungle undergrowth. The discovery of Mahendraparvata, a 1,200-year-old lost city that predates Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex by 350 years, was part of the Hindu-Buddhist Khmer Empire that ruled much of Southeast Asia from about 800 to 1400 A.D., during a time that coincided with Europe's Middle Ages" The Age has a story of its own, with video.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Archaeologists+Discover+Lost+City+In+Cambodian+Jungle%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZVLES9"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F16%2F2123242%2Farchaeologists-discover-lost-city-in-cambodian-jungle%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/16/2123242/archaeologists-discover-lost-city-in-cambodian-jungle?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/16/2123242/archaeologists-discover-lost-city-in-cambodian-jungle?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5e9132/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665596582/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5e9132/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665596582/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5e9132/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665596582/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5e9132/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/g0B9pYQQyOk" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:25:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5e9132/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C160C21232420Carchaeologists0Ediscover0Elost0Ecity0Ein0Ecambodian0Ejungle0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyearth2013-06-16T21:25:00Z2find-the-recipe-book-for-us-pleasescience2,2,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5e9132/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C160C21232420Carchaeologists0Ediscover0Elost0Ecity0Ein0Ecambodian0Ejungle0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/zY80s_TNekg/story01.htmNew rules for labs that use chimpanzees as test subjects may be on the horizon. From the New York Times blog: "The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal came in response to a petition filed in 2010 by the Jane Goodall Institute, the Humane Society of the United States, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and other groups. It would require permits for interstate commerce involving any chimpanzees, or for what the law calls 'taking,' which could be anything from harassment to major harm to something as simple as obtaining a blood sample. And those permits, Mr. Ashe said, would be granted only if the action could be shown to benefit the survival of the species. If the new rule is enacted, it will be a major success for animal welfare groups, a grave disappointment for some scientists and another sign of the profound changes over the last half-century in the way animals are used and imagined in science and popular culture." The L.A. Times lauds the proposed rule change in an editorial.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Proposed+Rule+Would+Drastically+Restrict+Chimp+Research%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F124xjzl"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F16%2F1418202%2Fproposed-rule-would-drastically-restrict-chimp-research%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/16/1418202/proposed-rule-would-drastically-restrict-chimp-research?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/16/1418202/proposed-rule-would-drastically-restrict-chimp-research?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5c2a4e/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665051686/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5c2a4e/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665051686/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5c2a4e/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665051686/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5c2a4e/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/zY80s_TNekg" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:20:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5c2a4e/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C160C141820A20Cproposed0Erule0Ewould0Edrastically0Erestrict0Echimp0Eresearch0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyusa2013-06-16T15:20:00Zdrawing-certain-linesscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5c2a4e/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C160C141820A20Cproposed0Erule0Ewould0Edrastically0Erestrict0Echimp0Eresearch0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Ep8hYT5jiKY/story01.htmThorfinn.au sends this quote from Space.com: "The pervading carpet of perchlorate chemicals found on Mars may boost the chances that microbial life exists on the Red Planet &mdash; but perchlorates are also perilous to the health of future crews destined to explore that way-off world. Perchlorates are reactive chemicals first detected in arctic Martian soil by NASA's Phoenix lander that plopped down on Mars over five years ago in May 2008. It is likely both of NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 measured signatures of perchlorates, in the form of chlorinated hydrocarbons. Other U.S. Mars robots &mdash; the Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity &mdash; detected elemental chlorine. Moreover, orbital measurements taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft show that chlorine is globally distributed. [Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith] said microbes on Earth use perchlorate for an energy source. They actually live off highly oxidized chlorine, and in reducing the chlorine down to chloride, they use the energy in that transaction to power themselves. In fact, when there's too much perchlorate in drinking water, microbes are used to clean it up, he said. Furthermore, seasonal flow features seen on Mars may be caused by high concentrations of the brines of perchlorate, which has a strong attraction to water and can drastically lower its freezing point, Smith told SPACE.com. The high levels of perchlorate found on Mars would be toxic to humans, Smith said."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Future+Astronauts+Must+Deal+With+Toxic+Chemicals+In+Martian+Soil%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11R1aPR"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F15%2F2328237%2Ffuture-astronauts-must-deal-with-toxic-chemicals-in-martian-soil%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/15/2328237/future-astronauts-must-deal-with-toxic-chemicals-in-martian-soil?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/15/2328237/future-astronauts-must-deal-with-toxic-chemicals-in-martian-soil?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d59f51c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665124708/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d59f51c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665124708/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d59f51c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665124708/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d59f51c/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/Ep8hYT5jiKY" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:30:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d59f51c/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C150C23282370Cfuture0Eastronauts0Emust0Edeal0Ewith0Etoxic0Echemicals0Ein0Emartian0Esoil0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillmars2013-06-16T09:30:00Z1nice-place-to-visit-but-don't-drink-the-soilscience1,1,1,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d59f51c/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C150C23282370Cfuture0Eastronauts0Emust0Edeal0Ewith0Etoxic0Echemicals0Ein0Emartian0Esoil0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/E8kdRNQieH8/story01.htmschwit1 sends this news from Businesweek: "After 2,000 years, a long-lost secret behind the creation of one of the world's most durable man-made creations ever &mdash; Roman concrete &mdash; has finally been discovered by an international team of scientists, and it may have a significant impact on how we build cities of the future. Researchers have analyzed 11 harbors in the Mediterranean basin where, in many cases, 2,000-year-old (and sometimes older) headwaters constructed out of Roman concrete stand perfectly intact despite constant pounding by the sea. The most common blend of modern concrete, known as Portland cement, a formulation in use for nearly 200 years, can't come close to matching that track record. In seawater, it has a service life of less than 50 years. After that, it begins to erode. The secret to Roman concrete lies in its unique mineral formulation and production technique. As the researchers explain in a press release outlining their findings, 'The Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock. For underwater structures, lime and volcanic ash were mixed to form mortar, and this mortar and volcanic tuff were packed into wooden forms. The seawater instantly triggered a hot chemical reaction. The lime was hydrated &mdash; incorporating water molecules into its structure &mdash; and reacted with the ash to cement the whole mixture together.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ancient+Roman+Concrete+Is+About+To+Revolutionize+Modern+Architecture%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1bHgFLI"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F15%2F1238226%2Fancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/15/1238226/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/15/1238226/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d54f922/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666113655/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d54f922/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666113655/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d54f922/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666113655/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d54f922/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/E8kdRNQieH8" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:36:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d54f922/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C150C12382260Cancient0Eroman0Econcrete0Eis0Eabout0Eto0Erevolutionize0Emodern0Earchitecture0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskilltechnology2013-06-15T15:36:00Zwhen-in-rometechnology0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d54f922/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C150C12382260Cancient0Eroman0Econcrete0Eis0Eabout0Eto0Erevolutionize0Emodern0Earchitecture0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/W2ROBMoa8_Y/story01.htmMarkWhittington writes "A draft version of the 2013 NASA Authorization Bill nixes any funding for President Obama's asteroid retrieval mission and instead directs NASA to return astronauts to the lunar surface as soon as possible, funding of course permitted. The NASA bill is currently working its way through the House Science Committee. Thus far the Senate has not taken up NASA authorization. However the cancellation of the asteroid retrieval mission and an insistence on returning to the moon, which both President Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden have opposed, would place Congress on a collision course with the White House should that version of the bill be passed by both houses of Congress."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Draft+NASA+Funding+Bill+Cancels+Asteroid+Mission+For+Return+To+the+Moon%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12N6zuA"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F15%2F122243%2Fdraft-nasa-funding-bill-cancels-asteroid-mission-for-return-to-the-moon%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/15/122243/draft-nasa-funding-bill-cancels-asteroid-mission-for-return-to-the-moon?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/15/122243/draft-nasa-funding-bill-cancels-asteroid-mission-for-return-to-the-moon?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5417e5/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666112580/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5417e5/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666112580/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5417e5/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666112580/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d5417e5/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/W2ROBMoa8_Y" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:33:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5417e5/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C150C1222430Cdraft0Enasa0Efunding0Ebill0Ecancels0Easteroid0Emission0Efor0Ereturn0Eto0Ethe0Emoon0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillspace2013-06-15T14:33:00Zflip-flopscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d5417e5/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C150C1222430Cdraft0Enasa0Efunding0Ebill0Ecancels0Easteroid0Emission0Efor0Ereturn0Eto0Ethe0Emoon0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/tm6cbZ_nANk/story01.htmalphadogg writes "Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said. The FDA issued new cybersecurity recommendations for medical devices on Thursday, following reports that some devices have been compromised. Recent vulnerabilities involving Philips fetal monitors and in Oracle software used in body fluid analysis machines are among the incidents that prompted the FDA to issue the recommendations."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=FDA+Calls+On+Medical+Devicemakers+To+Focus+On+Cybersecurity%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F198TScq"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F14%2F213204%2Ffda-calls-on-medical-devicemakers-to-focus-on-cybersecurity%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/213204/fda-calls-on-medical-devicemakers-to-focus-on-cybersecurity?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/213204/fda-calls-on-medical-devicemakers-to-focus-on-cybersecurity?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4ed209/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665188123/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4ed209/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665188123/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4ed209/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665188123/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4ed209/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/tm6cbZ_nANk" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:48:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4ed209/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C21320A40Cfda0Ecalls0Eon0Emedical0Edevicemakers0Eto0Efocus0Eon0Ecybersecurity0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillsecurity2013-06-14T21:48:00Zi-don't-need-to-tweet-from-my-pacemakerit0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4ed209/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C21320A40Cfda0Ecalls0Eon0Emedical0Edevicemakers0Eto0Efocus0Eon0Ecybersecurity0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/CIy7l-gFZ0I/story01.htmaarondubrow writes "Researchers recently created OpenfMRI, a web-based, supercomputer-powered tool that makes it easier for researchers to process, share, compare and rapidly analyze fMRI brain scans from many different studies. Applying supercomputing to the fMRI analysis allows researchers to conduct larger studies, test more hypotheses, and accommodate the growing spatial and time resolution of brain scans. The ultimate goal is to collect enough brain data to develop a bottom-up understanding of brain function."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=A+Database+of+Brains%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F178y7wa"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F14%2F1453257%2Fa-database-of-brains%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/1453257/a-database-of-brains?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/1453257/a-database-of-brains?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4cdc74/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665088981/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4cdc74/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665088981/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4cdc74/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665088981/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4cdc74/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/CIy7l-gFZ0I" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:19:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4cdc74/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C14532570Ca0Edatabase0Eof0Ebrains0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskilldatabase2013-06-14T16:19:00Z2quickly-DDOSed-by-zombie-botnetscience2,2,1,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4cdc74/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C14532570Ca0Edatabase0Eof0Ebrains0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/9XabrwLvsLU/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Today Mozilla announced the Mozilla Science Lab, a project to help modernize scientific practices to make better use of the open web. "Scientists created the web &mdash; but the open web still hasn't transformed scientific practice to the same extent we've seen in other areas like media, education and business. For all of the incredible discoveries of the last century, science is still largely rooted in the "analog" age. Credit systems in science are still largely based around "papers," for example, and as a result researchers are often discouraged from sharing, learning, reusing, and adopting the type of open and collaborative learning that the web makes possible.' Hopefully this can be another step in moving away from traditional publishing practices, and encourage a new generation of scientists to make their data available in more useful ways."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Mozilla+Launches+Initiative+To+Adapt+Scientific+Practice+To+the+Open+Web%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11kSC0F"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F14%2F1450235%2Fmozilla-launches-initiative-to-adapt-scientific-practice-to-the-open-web%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/1450235/mozilla-launches-initiative-to-adapt-scientific-practice-to-the-open-web?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/1450235/mozilla-launches-initiative-to-adapt-scientific-practice-to-the-open-web?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4c0d4c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666088527/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4c0d4c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165666088527/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4c0d4c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165666088527/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4c0d4c/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/9XabrwLvsLU" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:17:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4c0d4c/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C1450A2350Cmozilla0Elaunches0Einitiative0Eto0Eadapt0Escientific0Epractice0Eto0Ethe0Eopen0Eweb0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillmozilla2013-06-14T15:17:00Zdead-trees-need-not-applyscience0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4c0d4c/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C1450A2350Cmozilla0Elaunches0Einitiative0Eto0Eadapt0Escientific0Epractice0Eto0Ethe0Eopen0Eweb0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/maQHhbfgq8g/story01.htmtaikedz writes "Fiona Fox, chief executive of the Science Media Center, has claimed that leading scientists independently advising the UK government are being actively prevented from speaking to the public and media, especially in times of crisis when scientific evidence is necessary for a fully open and educated public debate, such as the current badger culling policy, and the past volcanic eruptions and ash fallout and their effects. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whom many of these scientists are advising, denies any such practices."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=UK+Government+'Muzzling'+Scientists%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F17M1rrJ"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F14%2F1327229%2Fuk-government-muzzling-scientists%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/1327229/uk-government-muzzling-scientists?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/1327229/uk-government-muzzling-scientists?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4bf882/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665179144/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4bf882/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665179144/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4bf882/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665179144/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d4bf882/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/maQHhbfgq8g" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:54:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4bf882/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C13272290Cuk0Egovernment0Emuzzling0Escientists0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskilluk2013-06-14T14:54:00Z4information-wants-to-be-free-just-shut-up-for-a-couple-weeks-firstnews4,3,2,1,1,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d4bf882/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C140C13272290Cuk0Egovernment0Emuzzling0Escientists0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/buOvH5RTGQo/story01.htmFreshly Exhumed writes "Dave Siever always fancied himself as something of a musician, but also realized he did not necessarily sing or play in perfect key. Then he strapped on the electrodes of a device made by his Edmonton company, and zapped his brain's auditory cortex with a mild dose of electricity. The result, he claims, was a dramatic improvement in his ability to hear pitch, including the sour notes he produced himself. 'Now I tune everything and I practise my singing over and over and over again, because I'm more sensitive to it.' Mr. Siever was not under the supervision of a doctor or psychologist, and nor is he one himself. He is part of an extraordinary trend that has amateur enthusiasts excited, and some scientists deeply nervous: do-it-yourself brain stimulation." With studies suggesting that small doses of electricity can: increase your memory, help you learn new tasks, make you better at math, turn you into a sniper in minutes, and most importantly make the ugly seem attractive, we can expect a lot of brain zapping in the next few years.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Do-It-Yourself+Brain+Stimulation+Has+Scientists+Worried%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11cNzCI"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F06%2F13%2F2222244%2Fdo-it-yourself-brain-stimulation-has-scientists-worried%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/13/2222244/do-it-yourself-brain-stimulation-has-scientists-worried?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/06/13/2222244/do-it-yourself-brain-stimulation-has-scientists-worried?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d436a16/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665152849/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d436a16/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665152849/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d436a16/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665152849/u/49/f/647403/c/35028/s/2d436a16/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/buOvH5RTGQo" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:50:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d436a16/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C130C22222440Cdo0Eit0Eyourself0Ebrain0Estimulation0Ehas0Escientists0Eworried0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusscience2013-06-13T23:50:00Z7a-little-zap-will-do-youscience7,7,4,4,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647403/s/2d436a16/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A60C130C22222440Cdo0Eit0Eyourself0Ebrain0Estimulation0Ehas0Escientists0Eworried0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm