Two crewmen aboard the International Space Station on Thursday prepared for a spacewalk during which more than 730 kg (1600 pounds) of obsolete gear will be tossed overboard and left to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
Space station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Clay Anderson were due to begin a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Monday to […]
The research collaborative — involving scientists from the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Microsoft Research and Los Alamos National Laboratory — used highly computer-intensive, cutting-edge statistical research methods to investigate how the HIV virus mutates to escape the body’s immune system.
Specifically, “HLA class 1″ is a controlling part of […]
The latest browser war dustup pits Mozilla’s Firefox against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but this time the tiff isn’t about market share. It appears that IE may undermine Firefox’s security when a Net surfer clicks on malicious page links using the IE browser and Firefox also happens to be installed on the machine.
In an interesting twist […]
The government has confirmed that four applications received by the regulators’ Joint Programme Office for the opening phase of generic design assessment of new nuclear reactors have met the government’s eligibility criteria.
The designs from AECL, Areva, GE-Hitachi and Toshiba-Westinghouse are eligible for the first stage of the pre-licensing process which will be taken forward by […]
Efforts to unlock Apple Inc.’s iPhone continued on Monday, with hackers claiming “very significant progress.”The locked iPhone only works with AT&T Inc.’s EDGE network, and cannot be used with cellular service from other providers. Locked phones are generally used to help operators recoup the cost of subsidizing handsets for their customers, but AT&T is not […]
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