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January 4, 2010
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Good Morning,
To start off the New Year, here is a great video that is
sure to remind us of how greatly things have changed in a
time span of less than a lifetime due to technology. Check
out the link below the last article for a history lesson
on the evolution of video games.
Until Next Time,
Erin
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Earth's moon gets down to -416F
LOS ANGELES - It gets colder on the Earth's moon than any
other place in the solar system a man-made spacecraft has
measured, U.S. scientists say. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter has measured temperatures in the always-shadowed
craters of the moon and found it gets as low as minus 416
degrees Fahrenheit, the BBC reported. "The moon has one of
the most extreme thermal environments of any body in the
solar system," Professor David Paige of the University of
California-Los Angeles told the British broadcaster.
"During the middle of the day, temperatures can get up to
about 400K (261 degrees Fahrenheit) at the equator; and at
the poles at night, they can get very cold." The coldest
spot, he said, was on the southwestern edge of the floor of
the moon's Hermite Crater. Paige passed along his findings
at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, the biggest
annual gathering of Earth scientists.
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Physicists predict cooler computers
TORONTO - Canadian physicists say they have discovered new
behaviors of light occurring within photonic crystals. Uni-
versity of Toronto quantum optics researchers Professor
Sajeev John and doctoral student Xun Ma said their findings
could lead to faster optical information processing and
compact computers that don't overheat. "We discovered that
by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum inside a photonic
crystal, we can completely control the electronic state of
artificial atoms within the vacuum," Ma, lead author of the
study, said. "This discovery can enable photonic computers
that are more than 100 times faster than their electronic
counterparts, without heat dissipation issues and other
bottlenecks currently faced by electronic computing." John
said he and Ma designed a vacuum in which light passes
through circuit paths whose character changes drastically
and abruptly with the wave length of the light. "A vacuum
experienced by light is not completely empty, and can be
made even emptier," said John. "It's not the traditional
understanding of a vacuum." Ma added: "In this vacuum,
the state of each atom -- or quantum dot -- can be manipu-
lated with color-coded streams of laser pulses that sequen-
tially excite and de-excite it in trillionths of a second.
These quantum dots can in turn control other streams of
optical pulses, enabling optical information processing and
computing." The research is reported in the journal Physical
Review Letters.
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Some insects able to survive freezing
CHICAGO - A microscope the size of a football field near
Chicago is being used to study why some insects can survive
freezing, researchers said. The Advanced Photon Source and
its high-energy x-rays are filming the formation of ice and
the freezing of insects for a study at the University of
Western Ontario, Canada. "We're comparing Chymomyza amoena,
an insect native to Ontario that survives freezing, with
Drosophila melanogaster, because they're very close rela-
tives," university biologist Brent Sinclair said. The work
is important because melanogasters -- common fruit flies --
share much of the same genetic makeup as humans and finding a
way to freeze and revive them is a priority of researchers
worldwide, Sinclair said. So far, Sinclair's team has learned
that some insects freeze at higher temperatures than others,
which implies the ability to survive freezing may be cellular
or biochemical in nature rather than because of structural
differences, the university said in a release Monday.
Video: The Evolution on Videogames
A short trip through the evolution of video games. From
pixel to polygons, atari to HD, this is a visual ride
through various video game genres as they evolved with
new technology and talent from game developers.
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