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Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

As it looks more and more like the U.S. government might actually take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, the proponents and opponents of any action are getting more strident.

March 28, 2009 by Harry Fuller

NASA and DoE team on dark energy research

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) have teamed up to operate the future Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM). As you probably know, recent astronomical measurements have showed that about 72% of the total energy in the universe is dark energy, even if scientists don't know much about it, but speculate that it is present almost since the beginning of our Universe more than 13 billion years ago. The JDEM 'mission will make precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe to understand how this rate has changed with time. These measurements will yield vital clues about the nature of dark energy.' The launch of a spacecraft for the JDEM mission is not planned before 2015. Read more...

November 27, 2008 by Roland Piquepaille

The Consortium hacks porn site

The Consortium, a new hacktivist group, has introduced itself to the world by hacking the porn site Digital Playground. Everything, including credit card information, was stored in plain text.

March 11, 2012 by Emil Protalinski

Rackspace second quarter better than expected

Rackspace Hosting's second quarter results topped estimates as revenue surged from the year ago quarter.

August 9, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Flickr gives NASA's historical photos some distribution

In a partnership, NASA, Flickr and the Internet Archive are putting up collections of historic photos ranging from launches and takeoffs to key players in NASA history.

August 30, 2010 by Larry Dignan