Advances in Spinal Cord Injury Treatments
I normally do not link to very many health articles, but after literally smashing my L1 vertebrae in June and still dealing with the recovery from that injury and the new hardware in my back I read a lot of…
Lycos Antispam Screensaver Debuts
Make Love Not Spam, regardless of it's poorly-punctuated name, is an antispam effort lead by Lycos Europe. Users who download the screensaver allow their unused processor time to go toward flooding the websites advertised in spam e-mail. Sounds good, but there are two catches, and they are both significant. First, what is flooding?
Cassini probe snaps Mimas
All I can say is the Cassini probe keeps sending back some seriously cool pictures. [The Register] [Cassini Home Page]
ISS Crew moves Soyuz to new docking port
The ISS crew took a short ride today and re-arranged parking at the ISS. The move was actually to free up a airlock so that a space walk can be performed early next year. [SpaceToday]
Hubble Telescope replacement work begins
I am obviously out of the loop as I did not even realize that a new space based telescope was being made. But with the condition of the shuttle will their still be the heavy lift of the shuttle available…
Lie Detector test coming to a MRI near you
I have always thought that Lie Detector test where subjective, but it seems that using an MRI and watching brain activity has detected some interesting brain activity that occurs when a person lies, [ZDNet]
Mars Rovers 320 days and counting
It is always great to see that our taxpayers dollars have went a long way. Rovers Opportunity and Spirit continue to collect science even though running on reduced power. The next true test will be to see just how long…