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Comment Re:Believe it or not (Score 0) 69

by racoon00 on Monday May 12, 2014 @06:53AM (#46977773) Attached to: Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister

How did they decide whether it's a sister or brother?

Comment It's hell lot of money (Score 1) 79

by racoon00 on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @01:31AM (#43847569) Attached to: Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record

Did Woz got some share out of it?

Russians Find "New Bacteria" In Lake Vostok 147

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 07, 2013 @07:27PM from the new-germ-on-the-block dept.

tverbeek writes "Russian scientists believe they have found a new type of bacteria in the sub-glacial Lake Vostok. From the article: 'The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria which bore no resemblance to existing types, said Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics. "After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database," he said. "We are calling this life form unclassified and unidentified," he added.'"

Submission + - Need a better font for coding i? Thanks Adobe (boingboing.net)

Submitted by

tqft

on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @12:10AM

tqft writes: "From the sourceforge page
"Source Sans is a set of monospaced OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well coding environments. This family of fonts is a complementary design to the Source Sans family."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/

License
Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1)

Hope to see it Debian (& other) repository's soon."

Submission + - Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas (nasa.gov)

Submitted by kelk1 on Monday September 24, 2012 @03:30PM

kelk1 writes: If the size and mass of this gas halo is confirmed, it also could be an explanation for what is known as the "missing baryon" problem for the galaxy [...] a census of the baryons present in stars and gas in our galaxy and nearby galaxies shows at least half the baryons are unaccounted for [...] Although there are uncertainties, the work by Gupta and colleagues provides the best evidence yet that the galaxy's missing baryons have been hiding in a halo of million-kelvin gas that envelopes the galaxy.

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