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Submission + - Texas man Gets Full Face Transplant (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: A Texas man recieved the third full face transplant performed in the U.S. yesterday at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The patient was Dallas Wiens, whose face was burned in a power line accident in 2008. He was left blinded and with little sensation where his face used to be. Wiens lost his lips, eyes, nose and much of the muscle and nerve tissue because the burns he suffered penetrated to the bones.

Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of the Burn Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and leader of the surgical team, said in a press conference that Wiens will not look the way he did before, nor will he look like the person who donated his face. The reason is that Wiens' bone structure is different and the tissues will change shape as they heal.
Space

Submission + - Was The Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? (discovery.com)

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astroengine
astroengine writes: "According to two theoretical physicists, our current four-dimensional Universe (3 dimensions of space, 1 dimension of time) is actually an evolution from a lower-dimensional state. The early Universe may have existed with just one spatial dimension (plus one time dimension) up until the Universe cooled below an energy state of 100 TeV. At this point, a transition occurred when the spatial dimension "folded" to create 2 dimensions. At 1 TeV, it folded again to create the Universe we know today: 3 dimensions of space, one of time. This may sound like a purely theoretical study, but there might be evidence of the evolution of universal dimensions in cosmic ray measurements and, potentially, in gravitational wave cut-off frequency."
Microsoft

Submission + - How Xbox Live Enforcement Works (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "The Xbox Live Enforcement team made an appearance at PAX East and showed us how the ban process works on Xbox Live. They use a program called Vulcan which allows the XBL Enforcement team to mark complaints as Accurate, Inaccurate, and Escalate."
NASA

Submission + - NASA satellite nails Mercury orbit (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "NASA has sent the very first spacecraft into an orbit around Mercury, the closest planet on our solar system to the Sun. Now that it is there, NASA's satellite MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) will orbit Mercury about 730 times in the next 12 months, beaming back pictures and never-before-available pictures and data on the planet."
Science

Submission + - New population of mini snow leopard found (mongabay.com) 1

Submitted by rhettb
rhettb writes: The elusive Andean cat, which until the late 1990s was only known to scientists by a couple photographs, has been discovered beyond the Andes mountain range. According to researchers, the wild Andean cat resembles Asia's snow leopard, both in appearance and its habitat above altitudes of 3,000 meters, only in this case the wild cat is about the size of a domesticated feline. But, scientists have now discovered that the cat also inhabits the Patagonian steppe at elevations as low as 650 meters (2,100 feet).
Idle

Submission + - iPhone app claims to be able to turn gay straight (pinknews.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple are being called to ban an iPhone app that claims to be able to cure gays of homosexuality.
Christian group Exodus International claims that people can find “freedom from homosexuality” through prayer and practises conversion therapy.
Linux

Submission + - Egyptian FLOSS protecting the revolution (spirulasystems.com)

Submitted by ezabi
ezabi writes: Old school FLOSS advocates had their behind the scenes role protecting the Egyptian revolution for freedom since its early days, an open source solution provider based in Alexandria-Egypt had an active role securing pro-democracy websites since their beginnings pre January 25th, [their press release|http://www.spirulasystems.com/news/egypt-spirula-and-electronic-war]

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