Natural Bridge on the Moon

 "Natural bridges on the Earth are typically the result of wind and water erosion - not a likely scenario on the Moon. So how did this natural bridge form? The most likely answer is dual collapse into a lava tube. From the Apollo era, SELENE, and LROC images, we know that lava tubes did form in the Moon's ancient past."

Source: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/277-Natural-Bridge-on-the-Moon!.html

Cameron Diaz: 'I love Alex Rodriguez too much'

Diaz recalled: "We were watching the game, and I was eating, and I was getting down to, like, the last couple pieces of popcorn. And all of a sudden, I see [Alex's] hand coming in.

"Anybody who knows me does not put their hand in my food, especially when it's close to my mouth. I said, 'What are you...?' And then I went, 'You know what? I love you too much, I'm going to give it to you. You deserve it.'"


Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a326141/cameron-diaz-i-love-alex-rodriguez-too-much.html

Giant Globe Made of 10,000 Live-Updating OLED Panels

 "“Geo-Cosmos” is made up of 10,362 OLED panels that display continuously-updating satellite footage of our tiny blue marble, representing what our planet looks like from space in something close to realtime. It replaces an earlier model covered in LED panels, offering museum-goers a full 10 million pixels, a resolution 10 times greater than its predecessor."
 
Source: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/worlds-largest-spherical-oled-display-10000-panel-globe-updated-satellite-pics

100,000 times hotter than the centre of the Sun

"Professor Geoffrey Taylor, from the University of Melbourne and part of the scientific team involved with the Large Hadron Collider's Atlas Detector, describes the work as an amazing achievement.

"This state of matter doesn't exist anywhere naturally on Earth and is thought to only now occur during the collision of two neutron stars," he said.

"This will help our understanding of the dynamics of the astrophysical processes taking place as a star collapses.

"Looking at how particle jets and subatomic particles like W and Z bosons are created in heavy lead ion collisions compared to lighter hydrogen proton collisions gives us an insight into the conditions that existed in a quark gluon plasma when the universe was just milliseconds old."

Professor Taylor says the results were accomplished in just two weeks of atom smashing.

"These collisions are also generating antimatter, which will help us try to understand why we live in a stable universe of matter when equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created in the big bang," he said.

"It takes our understanding of things that are happening in the cosmos one step further."

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/14/3243341.htm

Images capture moment brain goes unconscious

"Our jaws just hit the ground," said Professor Brian Pollard from Manchester Royal Infirmary on seeing the images for the first time.
"I can't tell you the words we used as it wouldn't be polite over the phone."

"Professor Pollard explained that the brain's structures should not change over a minute-long scan, and so any differences that he and his team see as the patient falls asleep must therefore be due to changes in their brain's activity.
It is hoped that this technique could be used to learn about the nature of consciousness, but it is also likely to help doctors make headway in monitoring the health of a person's grey matter after they have suffered a head injury or stroke."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13751783

Mystery of Egyptian Pyramid's Secret Hieroglyphics Solved

Strange hieroglyphs written in red paint and sealed within the structure for 4,500 years.


"The markings are hieratic numerical signs. They read from right to left, meaning 100, 20, 1. The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits," said  Luca Miatello, an independent researcher who specializes on ancient Egyptian mathematics.

 "If the figures are numbers and they are the precise measurement of the shaft, then it's amazing," he said. "It would be a huge, rare clue to what the architect was thinking. For example, why take the trouble to precisely measure and record the length if the shaft was only used for a mundane purpose or simply abandoned?”

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/08/mystery-egyptian-pyramids-secret-hieroglyphics-solved/

IPv6 day is more than just larger internet addresses, says Verisign

"Today is the day that the internet community has to stop running away from IPv6, with some of the largest websites and content distribution networks switching over to IPv6 for 24 hours."

"Danny McPherson, chief security officer at Verisign told The INQUIRER, "In general, the community is much more aware of the issue of IPv4 exhaustion and the implications on IPv6 preparedness. As the RIRs begin to exhaust their remaining IPv4 allocations, in very short order the pain will become much more evident." In many ways IANA announcing the allocation of the final IPv4 blocks was a watershed moment for IPv6 deployment, making companies realise that the need to migrate to IPv6 is far closer than it has ever been before.

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2076934/ipv6-day-larger-internet-addresses-verisign

Anthony Weiner: I will work hard to win back their trust and try to persuade them

"It was a very hurtful thing to do," he said. "If you're looking for some kind of deep explanation for this, I simply don't have one."

"It was a dumb thing to do to tell lies about it, because it just led to more lies,"

"I will work hard to win back their trust and try to persuade them," he said. "I have worked very hard for my constituents … Nothing about this should reflect on my official duties or on my oath of office … I certainly used bad judgment here."



Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-06-anthony-weiner-photo_n.htm

DNA computer 'calculates square roots'

"Those circuits were smaller [than those of the current work], but more importantly, they were built using more complex DNA molecules that made systems more difficult to debug and had other problems," Professor Winfree told BBC News.

"We are no longer pursuing the goal targeted by Len Adleman's original DNA computing experiment: to compete with silicon by using the massive parallelism of chemistry to solve combinatorial problems in mathematics," he explained


"Instead, our goal is now - and has been for many years - to enrich chemistry itself so that molecular behaviours can be programmed.

"We'd like to make chemical systems that can probe their molecular environments, process chemical signals, make decisions, and take actions at the chemical level."


Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13626583

Jose Mourinho: I'm nobody

I don't make those decisions. If the club want to do something, I'm nobody. We all agree on Higuain and Benzema: we want to keep them."
"I have no more power than I had before. 'Madrid are looking for a new model within the organisation. Having a good structure [at the club] is not a guarantee of success, but a bad structure that is not suited to the modern game - that is a guarantee of failure. We must modernise and aim for perfection.
''I will still only be a coach and nothing more. With Valdano, there was nothing personal. I wish him all the best."


Source: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/925510/jose-mourinho-rules-out-gonzalo-higuain-and-karim-benzema-sales?cc=5739

Mladic tells judges was defending people, country

"Mladic's arraignment was his first public appearance since he went into hiding nearly 16 years ago. Wearing a gray suit, tie and cap, he stood looking bullish between two guards, who each held one of his arms to support him, as the hearing started. He took off the cap when he sat down to reveal a nearly bald head.
He spoke slowly — his stare as steely as during the war when he was the strutting leader of the Bosnian Serb army — and appeared to understand the proceedings clearly."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110603/ap_on_re_eu/eu_war_crimes_mladic

Favicon games in 16x16px - Big fun in small space

"Like Defender of the favicon, the games are rendered using a 16×16 pixels canvas and each frame is exported as a 32bits PNG image and the link tag of the favicon is replaced. Unfortunately only Opera and Firefox have the subtle combination of capabilities that make this feat possible."

ping pong: http://www.p01.org/releases/Favicon_games_and_Smart_fortwo/Pong/

fav race: http://www.p01.org/releases/Favicon_games_and_Smart_fortwo/FavRace/


Source: http://www.p01.org/releases/Favicon_games_and_Smart_fortwo/

Endeavour lands safely after final mission

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Endeavour astronauts are basking in the glow of mission success Wednesday morning after winding up a spectacular flight with the 25th and final landing of the orbiter NASA built to replace Challenger."

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2011-06-01-endeavour-landing-atlantis_n.htm