NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini Observatory in Hawaii have teamed up with the Juno spacecraft to probe the mightiest storms in the solar system, taking place more …read more Source:: Science
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Microsoft: Application Inspector is now open source, so use it to test code security
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•Microsoft offers up the security tool it uses to probe untrusted third-party software components in its applications. …read more Source:: Linux
Can entangled qubits be used to probe black holes?
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•Information escapes from black holes via Hawking radiation, so it should be possible to capture it and use it to reconstruct what fell in: if given time longer than the …read more Source:: Science
Waves in Saturn’s rings give precise measurement of planet’s rotation rate
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•Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the …read more Source:: Science
Breakthrough opens door to smartphone powered $100 ultrasound machine
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•Engineers have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation — no bigger than …read more Source:: Science
Under pressure, hydrogen offers a reflection of giant planet interiors
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•Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the interiors of giant planets — where experts believe it gets squeezed until it …read more Source:: Science
Pluto probe survives encounter, phones home
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•LAUREL, Md. (Reuters) – A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Philae space probe thought lost wakes in comet’s shadows
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•FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The Philae lander space probe thought lost has woken up some seven months after officials thought it marooned in the shadows on a comet, the European Space …read more Source:: UKScienceNews