After over 20 years of neglect, the planet Venus is once more drawing NASA’s eye for ambitious new missions. Read more…
Archive for July, 2010
Perfectly circular, powerful Hurricane Celia spaned hundreds of miles over the Pacific Ocean in this image from June 24, 2010. Rough-textured clouds surround the storm’s distinct eye. Farther from the center of the storm, spiral arms appear thinner and smoother. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image [...]
Future missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils Read more…
A bright hot star with more than 70 times the mass of our sun will live fast and die young. Read more…
It didn’t take long for adult entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services. In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees. Read more…
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users. Read more…
Technologies and gadgets that debuted in science fiction films and novels. Predicting Crime, Flying Cars, Space Tourism First Appeared in Science Fiction. Read more…
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users. Read more…
No “significant” personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office. Read more…
Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books. Read more…