Microsoft bans up to 1 million Xbox Live users
Up to an estimated 1 million players who use Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles.
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Archive for November 11th, 2009
Va. teen suffers rare illness after swine flu shot
A 14-year-old Virginia boy is struggling to walk after coming down with a suspected case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu. The cases raises anti-vaccine fears, but health officials see no link.
Cosmic Log: Asteroid buzzes past Earth
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Asteroid-watchers say a space rock about as big as a garage came with 9,000 miles of Earth, just 15 hours after it was detected.
Tool School: A Quicker Way to Cut Steel
Learn how to weild a plasma cutter like a pro and you can slice through steel like butter
Building things from metal can seem intimidating—metal just feels so much more permanent than, say, wood, and with the all the sparks and pressurized cylinders, it seems like just a matter of time before you blow up your […]
Are You Drinking Water From Outer Space Right Now?
A study suggests that Earth’s water was imported by asteroids, long after the planet was first formed
Life on Earth first came out of the oceans, but the water itself may have originated from extraterrestrial space rocks. A new study points to a turbulent period when the solar system’s giant planets hurled chunks of icy rubble […]
NASA Scientist Converts iPhone into Chemical Sniffer
A new plug-in iPhone device can detect airborne ammonia, chlorine gas and methane
Cell phones have increasingly become mobile labs and tech tools for researchers, and now NASA has gotten in on the act. A postage-stamp-sized chemical sensor allows iPhones to sniff out low airborne concentrations of chemicals such as ammonia, chlorine gas and methane.
A puff […]
Carbon Nanotube Sponge Could Suck Up Oil Spills
A new carbon sponge can soak up 180 times its own weight in organic matter
Spongebob may want to look into a nanotech upgrade that could permit him to walk on water. Chinese scientists have created carbon nanotube sponges that don’t absorb water, leaving them plenty of room for absorbing oil or other icky organic goo.
The […]
China’s Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm to Beijing
In The People’s Republic of China, it’s no secret that the Party controls just about everything. But as Beijing suffers through its second major snowstorm this season, residents are growing weary of their leadership’s control-freak tendencies. After all, while the storm came as a surprise to residents, the government knew about it all along. […]
Cancer protein ‘can be disarmed’
Scientists say they have found a way to disarm a protein thought to play a key role in leukaemia and other cancers.
Shiver Me Timbers! Scientists Discover Deep Sea Crab Feeding on Wooden Shipwrecks
A new article in the journal Marine Biology brings to light the interesting feeding habits of the deep sea crab Munidopsis andamanica, better known to the world (somewhat perplexingly) as the squat lobster. It seems that the this particular animal eats exclusively discarded wood that sinks to the seafloor — trees, leaves, old wooden shipwrecks […]
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