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Captain Crunch & Co -A Video: The Secret History of Hacking

Don't miss this spellbinding Discovery Channel video on the history of hackers and hacking from Captain Crunch to Apple founder Steve Wozniak and the Homebrew Computer Club to the infamous cyber  outlaw, Kevin Mitnick.

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Life Found Teeming Deep in Antarctic Abyss

Scientists using a submersible remotely operated vehicle (ROV)  have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3,500 metres in the Southern Ocean waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only in the upper ocean. The discovery completely changes scientists’ understanding of the major food source for fish, squid, penguins, seals, and whales.

As Temperatures Hit Record Lows, Global Warming Takes a Punch to the Gut

Snow cover around the world is greater than it’s ever been in over four decades. The Arctic Sea ice that was hysterically lamented this past year for having hit the "lowest levels on record” (which actually weren’t even kept for the region before 1972) is on the rebound. Temperatures in the US are at record-breaking lows. According to the National Weather Service, temperature were just one degree shy of beating a record low held since 1888 earlier this month, as temperatures fell to an extreme 40 below zero in Embarrass, Minnesota. (Yes, that is the real name of the city, and it’s purely a humorous coincidence that the name appears to cleverly poke fun at global warming alarmists everywhere.)

Search for the "God Particle" Continues

Hoping for Higgs: Scientists worldwide have been anticipating the Large Hadron Collider more keenly than a child waiting for Christmas after Santa announces he has a twin brother, and this year they're both giving presents.  You may have heard of this - you may even know they're after the Higgs boson - but for those of us without multiple PhDs, what does this thing actually do?

Did a "Big Bang" in Our Solar System Create Venus as We Know It?

Over the past several years the formation of our own solar system has been of high importance in scientific circles. Many scientists have focused their attention on the inner four planets, and found that we bounced around like a ball in a pinball machine in our early formative years.

Now an impact theory is arising as an explanation for the formation of our evil twin: Venus (xray image left).

"Encyclopedia of Life" -Online 'Macroscope' Launched

“The launch of the Encyclopedia of Life will have a profound and creative effect in science. It aims not only to summarize all that we know of Earth’s life forms, but also to accelerate the discovery of the vast array that remain unknown. This great effort promises to lay out new directions for research in every branch of biology.” EOL Video

Edward O. Wilson, Harvard evolutionary biologist and naturalist.

Now Showing in a Cosmos Near You

In further proof that the universe can kick our butt at just about anything, the double galaxies of NGC4676 are putting on a pyrotechnics display that Jerry Bruckheimer couldn't imagine if he mainlined LSD and directly applied two thousand volts to his visual cortex.  They're colliding in a process leading astrophysicists describe as "totally awesome".  They've got a sense of cinema style to it too, drawing the stellar spectacular out in extreme slow-motion - a few hundred million years, now showing in a cosmos near you.

Our Extraterrestrial Littering Problem

Imagine how unglamorous it would be to die by getting hit by an orbiting pair of pliers rather than a blazing comet. Unfortunately for spacefarers of the future, our embarrassing extraterrestrial littering problem already poses a much more significant threat, and the situation is only expected to get exponentially worse. You may have heard of the Adopt-a-Highway program that has helped so many boy scouts earn another well-deserved badge, but what we need now is an Adopt-an-Orbit program. Any volunteers?

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