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Physicists in the US and Singapore are the first to use light from distant galaxies to perform a systematic search for cosmic strings — massive structures that may have been created just after the Big Bang. Although the team has found no evidence of cosmic strings in the small patch of sky they surveyed, they have been able to set an upper limit on the mass per unit length of the strings. The team is now working to improve their results by looking at larger patches of the sky.
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via PhysicsWeb @ 1:20 3rd Jul
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mister_woods writes "It's not just governments that lose private data. Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) reports that market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has lost 41,000 private data records of their survey participants. By simply changing the customer ID number in the browser's address bar access could be gained to comprehensive survey results, including names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and much more sensitive data. A CCC spokesman described this as 'unprofessional, grossly negligent and above all deeply worrying' and sees this loss as a vindication for its calls for strict regulations for public and private sector data collectors."
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via Slashdot @ 7:13 7th Jul
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New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date: ten promising candidates thought to lie at a distance of 13 billion light-years (~redshift 7.5).
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via Science Daily @ 21:19 24th Jul
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Scientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have found the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date: ten promising candidates thought to lie at a distance of 13 billion light-years.
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via NetIndia123.com @ 5:52 26th Jul
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Washington, July 25 : Scientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have found the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date: ten promising candidates thought to lie at a distance of 13 billion light-years.
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via NewKerala.com @ 19:24 25th Jul
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By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date.
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via Innovations Report @ 22:11 26th Jul
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LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies(TM) With the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game
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via Red Orbit @ 2:10 3rd Jul
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TMCNet: LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies(TM) with the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game
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via TMC Net @ 19:51 2nd Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO - LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment announced today the Star Wars Galaxies™ Trading Card Game as part of the fifth anniversary celebration for the massively multiplayer game, Star Wars Galaxies. The first release for the online trading card
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via Earthtimes.org @ 15:00 2nd Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2008--LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment announced today the Star Wars Galaxies(tm) Trading Card Game as part of the fifth anniversary celebration for the massively multiplayer game, Star Wars Galaxies. The first release for the online trading card game, Champions of the Force, is scheduled to be released late this summer, following several months filled with in-game anniversary events.
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via Macro World Investor @ 21:24 2nd Jul
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Astronomers may have underestimated the extent to which interstellar dust obstructs our view of other galaxies. New research suggests that dust blocks half of all the starlight in the universe from reaching Earth, meaning there is a lot more light and radiation out there than previously accounted for. By looking at galaxies in different orientations, Simon Driver, director of St. Andrews Observatory in Scotland, observed how much light the dust within spiral galaxies blocked. Using a new model of dusty galaxies developed by Richard Tuffs of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Driver then recalculated how much energy the dust blocks for 10,000 galaxies. The newly calibrated model showed far more hidden energy than expected; that energy then heats up the obscuring dust.
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via Discover Magazine @ 16:43 23rd Aug
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Weather-proofing topped the list as the most desirable feature camera buyers are looking for, according to a recent survey. J.D.Power’s Camera Usage and Satisfaction Survey revealed that, while point and shoot, and DSLR camera users are missing this attribute in their cameras, a majority of ultra compact users hope for more internal memory in future models. The survey also reveals that Internet product and review sites are the most important resource in guiding buyers with their market research.
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via Digital Photography Review @ 15:49 5th Aug
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Hubble Space Telescope image shows Einstein ring of one of the SLACS gravitational lenses, with the lensed background galaxy enhanced in blue. A. Bolton (UH/IfA) for SLACS and NASA/ESA.
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via Universe Today @ 16:09 21st Jul
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via TheServerSide.com @ 7:02 8th Aug
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More news on dark matter this week: By analyzing light from dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe – 10 million times the mass of the sun. This mass could be the smallest known “building block” of the mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter. Stars that form within these building blocks clump together and turn into galaxies. Scientists know very little about the microscopic properties of dark matter, even though it accounts for approximately five-sixths of all matter in the universe. “By knowing this minimum galaxy mass, we can better understand how dark matter behaves, which is essential to one day learning how our universe and life as we know it came to be,” said Louis Strigari, lead author of this study from the University of Cal
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via Universe Today @ 8:26 31st Aug
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SAN FRANCISCO-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment announced today the Star Wars Galaxies
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via SmartBrief @ 12:25 3rd Jul
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Cosmic voids really are devoid of matter. Astronomers have found that even the pervasive 'dark matter' which accounts for about 80% of the mass of the universe is not present in these voids, which are areas of vast emptiness in space that can be tens of millions of light-years across. "Astronomers have wondered for a quarter-century whether these voids were 'too big' or 'too empty' to be explained by gravity alone," said University of Chicago researcher Jeremy Tinker, who led the new study using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II). "Our analysis shows that the voids in these surveys are exactly as big and as empty as predicted by the 'standard' theory of the universe."
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via Universe Today @ 17:07 17th Aug
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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2008--A new survey reveals that almost 50 percent of attorneys are members of online social networks and over 40 percent of attorneys believe professional networking has the potential to change the business and practice of law over the next five years. However, less than ten percent say they can rely on their current network to help them work more efficiently and cost effectively. The survey of 650 attorneys also reveals the high degree of interest more than 40 percent among lawyers in joining an online professional network designed specifically for their profession.
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via Macro World Investor @ 1:09 11th Jul
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A new survey sent to users of the invitation-only survey site u.talk.back asks the question: which would you rather get, Guitar Hero World Tour, or Rock Band 2? Along with the question, each game is described with various new features. Things such as Rock Band DLC working in RB2, new online modes, and more are described for Rock Band 2, while World Tour is given some new instrument information, as well as a peak at the names and bands involved.
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via NG4.com @ 7:35 30th Jun
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Survey Highlights: According to the NDS DVR Report, an international survey of over 1,000 DVR owners: -- Italians rank the DVR, such as MySKY and MySKY HD set-top boxes, as the fourth most indispensable household item (59%), after the washing machine (97%), the microwave oven (64%) and the hairdryer (61%) -- Italians rank the DVR as the second most essential household technology item they can't live without (73%), beaten only by the mobile phone (95%) -- 78% of Italians with partners say that having a DVR makes for a happier home life
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via MarketWatch @ 4:32 3rd Sep
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Survey Highlights: According to the NDS DVR Report, an international survey of over 1,000 DVR owners: -- Brits rank the DVR as the third most indispensable household item (70%), after the washing machine (95%) and the microwave oven (71%) -- Brits rank the DVR as the second most essential household technology item they can't live without (78%), beaten only by the mobile phone (80%) -- 62% of Brits with partners say that having a DVR makes for a happier home life
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via MarketWatch @ 4:32 3rd Sep
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On large scales, the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic. This means that no matter where you are located in the cosmos, give or take the occasional nebula or galactic cluster, the night sky will appear approximately the same. Naturally there is some 'clumpiness' in the distribution of the stars and galaxies, but generally the density of any given location will be the same as a location hundreds of light years away. This assumption is known as the Copernican Principle. By invoking the Copernican Principle, astronomers have predicted the existence of the elusive dark energy, accelerating the galaxies away from one another, thus expanding the Universe. But say if this basic assumption is incorrect? What if our region of the Universe is unique in that we are sitting in in a location where the average density is a lot lower than other regio
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via Universe Today @ 2:22 24th Jul
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The Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences compiles information about degree recipients, departments, faculties, and students in the mathematical sciences at four-year colleges. The Second Report on the 2007 Survey, published in the August Notices of the AMS, highlights new doctoral recipients and provides data on starting salaries and other employment information.
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via MAA Online @ 7:38 27th Aug
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Washington, July 30 : In a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found that so-called barred spiral galaxies were far less plentiful 7 billion years ago than they are today, in the local universe.
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via Malaysia Sun @ 13:31 30th Jul
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