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NASA

NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space 139

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hope-sean-enjoyed-it-anna dept.
coondoggie writes "After a three day delay, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer this morning blasted into space courtesy of a Delta II rocket and will soon begin bathing the cosmos with infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The space agency says the WISE spacecraft will circle Earth over the poles, scanning the entire sky one-and-a-half times in nine months. The idea behind the spacecraft is to uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets."
Space

Australian Student Balloon Rises 100,000 Feet, With a Digital Camera 174

Posted by timothy from the shame-about-the-iso-setting dept.
hype7 writes "An Australian student at Deakin University had a fascinating idea for a final project — to send a balloon up 100,000ft (~30,000 metres) into the stratosphere with a digital camera attached. The university was supportive, and the project took shape. Although there were some serious hitches along the way, the project was successful, and he managed to retrieve the balloon — with the pictures. What's really amazing is that the total cost was so low; the most expensive part was buying the helium gas for approximately AUD$250 (~USD$200)."
Sci-Fi

Design Starting For Matter-Antimatter Collider 191

Posted by samzenpus from the dump-the-warp-core dept.
couch_warrior writes "The Register is carrying a story on the early design efforts for the next generation of high-energy particle accelerators. They will be linear, and will collide matter and antimatter in the form of electrons and positrons. The obvious question will be: once we have a matter-antimatter reactor, how long till we have warp drive, and will the Vulcans show up for a sneak-peak?"
Security

Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services 183

Posted by Soulskill from the nowhere-to-run-to-baby dept.
nandemoari writes "It seems as if the massive phishing campaign reported yesterday was not specific to Hotmail, as was initially believed. According to a report by the BBC, many Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts have also been compromised. Earthlink, Comcast, and AOL were also affected. While the source of the latest attacks has not been determined, many are pointing to the same bug that claimed at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail. Microsoft has done their part in blocking all known hijacked Hotmail accounts and created tools to help users who had lost control of their email. An analysis of the data from Hotmail showed the most common password among the compromised accounts to be '12345.' On their end, Google responded to the attacks by forcing password resets on the affected accounts."
Government

Submission + - Help save Fermilab!!!!

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stox
stox writes: "Due to our congress's incredible shortsightedness, Fermilab is running out of money.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-fermi_19dec19,1,2424810.story

I urge all the members of slashdot to contact their representatives as soon as possible. Not only will this result in Fermilab possibly missing the discovery of the Higgs Boson, but it may seal its fate in 2009. Unless the world is confident in our commitment to the International Linear Collider http://www.linearcollider.org/cms/, they may decide to build it somewhere else. Please make difference, call your congressman, Fermilab is too great a resource for this nation to lose. Please remember that Fermilab was one of the First major institutions to make a commitment to Linux. Also, many Linux contributors have been on Fermilab's staff."

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