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Submission + - WASP-43b: Weather map for a planet 260 light years away

Submitted by kfogel
kfogel writes: Exoplanet research has gotten sophisticated enough to do a temperature map of a planet that's 260 light years away! Color me impressed. This video explains the new results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... See also the full news release at http://hubblesite.org/newscent... (and for details, see the Related Links at http://hubblesite.org/newscent...).

Comment I named mine VIRUS (Score 1) 458

by mAineAc (#44631357) Attached to: My SSID Is...
I am in a rural area and not likely that anyone would use it. I leave it wide open and I figure if anyone wants to take a chance they won't get infected they can give it a try. I used to have someone piggyback on it. I haven't seen anyone since I changed the name.

Submission + - Nokia X6 Unlocked GSM Phone (blogspot.com)

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Yanst3r
Yanst3r writes: "A powerful entertainment and on-the-go social networking device, the Nokia X6 features a lush 3.2-inch widescreen capacitive touch display, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, integrated GPS with free Ovi Maps Navigation, and 16 GB of internal memory. You’ll have tons of space to save your pictures, music, video clips, and data, and you can always grab more games and applications downloaded from the Ovi Store. The Nokia X6 provides one-touch access to your music, social networks and messaging, and the Ovi Store. The 5-megapixel camera offers excellent Carl Zeiss optics and DVD-quality video capture...."
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Submission + - Rendering PDFs in JavaScript (blogspot.com)

Submitted by theweatherelectric
theweatherelectric writes: With the release of Emscripten 1.0, Mozilla's Alon Zakai has put together a demo which renders PDF documents in JavaScript. He writes, 'I released Emscripten 1.0 over the weekend, which came with a demo of rendering PDFs entirely in JavaScript (warning: >12MB will be downloaded for that page). Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler which allows running code written in C or C++ on the web. In the linked demo, Poppler and FreeType were compiled to JavaScript from C++.'

Submission + - Scientists aim to improve photosynthesis (cam.ac.uk)

Submitted by
vasanth
vasanth writes: "Two new initiatives at the University of Cambridge aim to address the growing demand on the Earth’s resources for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.

Four transatlantic research teams – two of which include academics from Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences – will explore ways to overcome limitations in photosynthesis which could then lead to ways of significantly increasing the yield of important crops for food production or sustainable bioenergy.

Despite the fact that photosynthesis is the basis of energy capture from the sun in plants, algae and other organisms, it has some fundamental limitations. There are trade-offs in nature which mean that photosynthesis is not as efficient as it could be – for many important crops such as wheat, barley, potatoes and sugar beet, the theoretical maximum is only 5%, depending on how it is measured. There is scope to improve it for processes useful to us, for example increasing the amount of food crop or energy biomass a plant can produce from the same amount of sunlight."

Submission + - A CO2 to oil process (wattsupwiththat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/23/2011) —University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and carbon dioxide, a goal funded by a $2.2 million United States Department of Energy grant.

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