6:17 PM
Two Viking lander sites likely contained organics that were destroyed when instruments heated them. So, we discovered compounds that make biology possible on Mars...and destroyed them as we tried to detect them:
http://news.discovery.com/space/viking-lander-mars-microbes.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
New UAV can adjust its shape according to wind gusts based on flight phase and weather patterns, allowing it to operate in severe weather situations. This amphibious UAV may be used for search and rescue, forest fire monitoring, and border control:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/uav-can-withstand-severe-weather-changing-shape
US military planners have been preparing for conflicts that will occur due to global warming:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/22886/coming_conflicts_of_climate_change.html
The DOD pays extra for special features in chips such as to be able to do operate at below freezing temperatures in high-flying planes. Many companies, mostly from China, have been trying to ship counterfeit chips to the DOD (5.6 million counterfeit chips seized in less than 3 years!) and many have entered the US and even are in current military systems...posing a big problem for warplanes and other systems:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/fake-chips-china-threaten-us-military-systems
Article about how the longest underground tunnel (57 km, 35.4 miles) was built. The Swiss tunnel will reduce the travel time via rail from Zurich to Milan by 1.5 hours:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Tunnelling_through_a_mountain.html?cid=28276254&rss=true
The National Transportation Safety Board is asking the FAA to require all passengers to have their own seats and seat belts, *including children under the age of 2* (kids that young can now sit on an adult's lap). The FAA rejected the request in the past and will apparently reject the requirement again. The FAA says that the safest place for an infant or toddler on a flight is in a seat using an approve child restraint, but it says that families with small children will drive instead of fly if they had to pay full price for an infant's ticket...and traveling by highway is much more dangerous than flying:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/07laps.html?_r=1
Concrete accounts for 5% of the world's man-made CO2 emissions--3 billions tons of cement are made each year and each ton of cement emits about 1,763 pounds of CO2 during manufacture. A British startup has developed a new cement (based on magnesium silicates instead of limestone) that *absorbs and stores* CO2 when it is produced:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/new-cement-absorbs-co2
Michigan researchers have found that forcing mismatched alloys together could increase the efficiency of solar cells. This is like the process for making homogenized milk, where the high-fat cream and low-fat milk that would naturally separate are forced to mix together at high pressure:
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7962
Taking daily tablets of large doses of Vitamin B half cut brain shrinkage in half in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia. This could be a breakthrough for people facing Alzheimer's:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6875CL20100909
Psychologists are studying why certain dance moves attract women:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/08/psychologists-killer-dance-moves-men
Poland became the 4th country (Sweden, Norway, and Uzbekistan are the others) to have commercial LTE service:
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/09/07/poland-becomes-fourth-lte.htm
Maravedis says that the US will get an LTE blitz this fall:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/maravedis-lte-blitz-coming-fall/2010-09-08#ixzz0z4D9F4qK
Free application enables Android users to have their phone's notifications forwarded to one or more computers:
http://www.androidcentral.com/remote-notifier-android-forward-notifications-your-phone-your-computer
T-Mobile has released details on its new G2 smartphone and pre-sales will start on Friday:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/t-mobile-g2-comes-out-from-hiding-begins-pre-order-this-month/
Analysts have really turned on RIM and its new BlackBerry platform, talking about threats from the iPhone and Android in the consumer market and renewed competition from Microsoft Windows Phone 7 in the enterprise market:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/analysts-sour-rims-blackberry-strategy/2010-09-09
Apple lifted its restrictions on Flash development for the iPhone, just months after they banned Flash development. This will allow developers to design and build apps in Flash and then convert them to Apple-approved code--Flash is still unusable on the iPhone and iPad:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/apple-lifts-restrictions-flash-development-iphone/2010-09-09#ixzz0z4IzF9es
Pres. Obama proposed a $50 billion plan to fix roads, rail lines and airport runways--I know that this is motivated by a need to create jobs with elections coming up, but I like it because our nation's infrastructure is way behind on its infrastructure maintenance needs:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-07-obama07_ST_N.htm
Man (at least most of his body parts) was found inside the belly of a shark in the Bahamas:
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/2010/09/man-found-in-sharks-belly-1742.html
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has designed a stylish hospital gown for the Cleveland Clinic to replace the old tie-in-the-back gown all hospitals have used forever. The clinic's logo is printed on the fabric and it the print pattern even spells the name of the Clinic. The gown has side ties, eliminating the open-back look, and is receiving praise for how functional it is for the medical staff while being comfortable to patients:
http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/09/designer_diane_von_furstenberg.html
http://news.discovery.com/space/viking-lander-mars-microbes.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
New UAV can adjust its shape according to wind gusts based on flight phase and weather patterns, allowing it to operate in severe weather situations. This amphibious UAV may be used for search and rescue, forest fire monitoring, and border control:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/uav-can-withstand-severe-weather-changing-shape
US military planners have been preparing for conflicts that will occur due to global warming:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/22886/coming_conflicts_of_climate_change.html
The DOD pays extra for special features in chips such as to be able to do operate at below freezing temperatures in high-flying planes. Many companies, mostly from China, have been trying to ship counterfeit chips to the DOD (5.6 million counterfeit chips seized in less than 3 years!) and many have entered the US and even are in current military systems...posing a big problem for warplanes and other systems:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/fake-chips-china-threaten-us-military-systems
Article about how the longest underground tunnel (57 km, 35.4 miles) was built. The Swiss tunnel will reduce the travel time via rail from Zurich to Milan by 1.5 hours:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Tunnelling_through_a_mountain.html?cid=28276254&rss=true
The National Transportation Safety Board is asking the FAA to require all passengers to have their own seats and seat belts, *including children under the age of 2* (kids that young can now sit on an adult's lap). The FAA rejected the request in the past and will apparently reject the requirement again. The FAA says that the safest place for an infant or toddler on a flight is in a seat using an approve child restraint, but it says that families with small children will drive instead of fly if they had to pay full price for an infant's ticket...and traveling by highway is much more dangerous than flying:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/07laps.html?_r=1
Concrete accounts for 5% of the world's man-made CO2 emissions--3 billions tons of cement are made each year and each ton of cement emits about 1,763 pounds of CO2 during manufacture. A British startup has developed a new cement (based on magnesium silicates instead of limestone) that *absorbs and stores* CO2 when it is produced:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/new-cement-absorbs-co2
Michigan researchers have found that forcing mismatched alloys together could increase the efficiency of solar cells. This is like the process for making homogenized milk, where the high-fat cream and low-fat milk that would naturally separate are forced to mix together at high pressure:
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7962
Taking daily tablets of large doses of Vitamin B half cut brain shrinkage in half in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia. This could be a breakthrough for people facing Alzheimer's:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6875CL20100909
Psychologists are studying why certain dance moves attract women:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/08/psychologists-killer-dance-moves-men
Poland became the 4th country (Sweden, Norway, and Uzbekistan are the others) to have commercial LTE service:
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/09/07/poland-becomes-fourth-lte.htm
Maravedis says that the US will get an LTE blitz this fall:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/maravedis-lte-blitz-coming-fall/2010-09-08#ixzz0z4D9F4qK
Free application enables Android users to have their phone's notifications forwarded to one or more computers:
http://www.androidcentral.com/remote-notifier-android-forward-notifications-your-phone-your-computer
T-Mobile has released details on its new G2 smartphone and pre-sales will start on Friday:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/t-mobile-g2-comes-out-from-hiding-begins-pre-order-this-month/
Analysts have really turned on RIM and its new BlackBerry platform, talking about threats from the iPhone and Android in the consumer market and renewed competition from Microsoft Windows Phone 7 in the enterprise market:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/analysts-sour-rims-blackberry-strategy/2010-09-09
Apple lifted its restrictions on Flash development for the iPhone, just months after they banned Flash development. This will allow developers to design and build apps in Flash and then convert them to Apple-approved code--Flash is still unusable on the iPhone and iPad:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/apple-lifts-restrictions-flash-development-iphone/2010-09-09#ixzz0z4IzF9es
Pres. Obama proposed a $50 billion plan to fix roads, rail lines and airport runways--I know that this is motivated by a need to create jobs with elections coming up, but I like it because our nation's infrastructure is way behind on its infrastructure maintenance needs:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-07-obama07_ST_N.htm
Man (at least most of his body parts) was found inside the belly of a shark in the Bahamas:
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/2010/09/man-found-in-sharks-belly-1742.html
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has designed a stylish hospital gown for the Cleveland Clinic to replace the old tie-in-the-back gown all hospitals have used forever. The clinic's logo is printed on the fabric and it the print pattern even spells the name of the Clinic. The gown has side ties, eliminating the open-back look, and is receiving praise for how functional it is for the medical staff while being comfortable to patients:
http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/09/designer_diane_von_furstenberg.html