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February 27 2007

  • The New Horizons
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     spacecraft makes a flyby of the planet Jupiter
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     on its way to Pluto
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    . BBC News

  • A hail storm
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     damages the external tank
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     of STS-117
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     while sitting on the launch pad
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    , and will delay the launch by at least multiple weeks. (SpaceRef.com)


February 25 2007

  • The Rosetta
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     spacecraft
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     successfully swings by the planet
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     Mars
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     on its way to the comet
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     67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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    . (BBCNews)

February 23 2007

  • In a poster session at the Cosyne 07 academic conference, researchers at IBM
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    's Almaden Research Center
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     and the University of Nevada
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     present a neural
    Neuron
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    -level computer simulation
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     of half a mouse
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     brain
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     at one tenth its normal speed; the massively parallel simulation, covering the equivalent of one second's brain activity, is run on an IBM Blue Gene/L
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     supercomputer
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     with 4096 processor
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    s, each one having 256 MB
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     of memory (for a total memory size of 1 TB
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    ). The presentation's title is "Towards real-time, mouse-scale cortical
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     simulations". (BBC News) (NordicHardware.com)

February 11 2007

  • Researchers identify genetic
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     clues to type 2 diabetes. (Boston Globe)

February 7 2007

  • ICANN
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     reports that its root nameserver
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     is under a massive denial-of-service attack
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     from an unknown source. At the same time, servers managed by US Defense Department and UltraDNS are also being targeted. (BBCNews)


February 2 2007

  • An IPCC
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     meeting at Paris
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    , France
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    , ends with a report that finds a probability of 90 % or higher that human
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     actions are creating a warming trend in the world's climate, causing global warming
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    . (Reuters)
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