Iddo Genuth writes "Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Florida has successfully completed the third round of its Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) testing for the national Aeronautics and Space management (NASA). CECE is a new deep throttling engine designed to reduce thrust and ...

Matt_dk sends in a quote from a story at NASA: "The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space parabolic reflector is one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest-energy initial emissions ever seen. ...

Snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder posits a deeper ratio between rule and open source than was draft in last week's open letter to Obama calling for broader open source adoption: solvent stimulus. Since disk general expenses system vendors urged the bureau to go open source last week, word cheap...

Several readers have remarked on a new technic grown-up by scientists at UC Berkeley and health center of Massachusetts Amherst that has the promise of achieving storage densities of 10 terabits per square inch. "The method lets microscopic nanoscale elements precisely assemble themselves over large...

Suraj.sun notes CNet reporting on bills filed in the US House and Senate that would require all ISPs and operators of Wi-Fi hotspots — including home users — to maintain access logs for 2 years to aid in law enforcement. The bills were filed by Republicans, but the article notes that the...

Iminplaya writes to tell us that the band "The Presidents of the United States of America" (yes, the peaches guys), are trying to expand their engagement with fans by selling their music via Apple's App store, existence others have experimented with but never dealt with on this level. "The app, call...

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Rememberclifford writes "A survey of about 3,000 people who were tagged in a '25 Random Things About Me' note on Facebook found that memes spread through social expert systems in a remarkably similar way as diseases do. A conservationist who looked at the data says that '"25 Things" authors can be s...