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ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding

An anonymous reader writes “After a huge meteor recently exploded over Chelyabinsk (population 1,130,132), Russia, NASA has approved $5 million for funding for ATLAS project (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System). From the article: ‘”There are excellent ongoing surveys for asteroids that are capable of seeing such a rock with one to two days’ warning, but they do not cover the whole sky each night, so there’s a good chance that any given rock can slip by them for days to weeks. This one obviously did,” astronomer John Tonry of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii told NBC News Friday.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Mussel Glue Could Help Repair Birth Defects

sciencehabit writes “When it comes to hanging on tight, the lowly mussel has few rivals in nature. Researchers have sought the secrets behind the bivalve’s steadfast grip on wet, slippery rock. Now, a researcher says he has used the mollusk’s tricks to develop medical applications. These include a biocompatible glue that could one day seal fetal membranes, allowing prenatal surgeons to repair birth defects without triggering dangerous premature labor.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

New Nanocapsule Medicine Could Sober You Up in Seconds

Anyone who’s ever had a couple of drinks knows that as fun as it can be, sometimes it’d be nice if you could just make all that haze go away, right away. There’s no solution for your average drunk yet, but researchers at MIT have managed to put together an injection that can turn a party mouse into a stone-cold sober one practically on the spot. More »

These serene Chinese landscapes are actually photographs of landfills

At first glance, Yao Lu’s digital collages look like watercolor paintings of misty Chinese mountains. But upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the real subjects of these photographs aren’t plant-covered hills but landfills, and the initial beauty of the images takes on an entirely different meaning. More »

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Five Best System Rescue Discs

When your computer starts behaving strangely, won’t boot, or you start getting strange errors that you can’t pin down, a great way to troubleshoot the problem is to boot to a rescue disc and see if you can isolate the problem. It might be your operating system, it could be hardware, but you’ll never know until you boot to some other media to take a look. That said, there are tons of great system rescue discs to check out if you want a tool to save your ailing system. This week we’re looking at five of the best, nominated by you, our readers. More »

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BitTorrent’s New Trick: Letting You Send Terabyte-Sized Email Attachments

Not too long ago, BitTorrent launched a little project called Sync , which provides practically unlimited “cloud” storage. Now the professional sharers are rolling out yet another service called “SoShare” which promises to let you easily send huge files to friends and coworkers with little to no hassle. Up to a whole terabyte at the click of a button . More »

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First Bionic Eye Gets FDA Blessing

coondoggie writes “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved what it says is the first bionic eye, or retinal prosthesis, that can partially restore the sight of blind individuals after surgical implantation. The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System includes a small video camera, transmitter mounted on a pair of eyeglasses, video processing unit (VPU) and an implanted artificial retina. The VPU transforms images from the video camera into electronic data that is wirelessly transmitted to the retinal prosthesis.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Paint Your Pizza Lets You Design Deliciously Ugly Made-To-Order Pizzas On the Web

Fancy yourself an artist? Well if you’re in need of a medium, you could always opt for “pizza.” A new website called “Paint Your Pizza” lets you turn horrendously impressionist MSPaint-inspired masterworks into theoretically delicious pizzas for the sophisticated stomach. More »

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Mailstrom Helps You Clear Out Thousands of Messages from Your Inbox in About an Hour

Inbox zero is a holy grail that seems unattainable for most, but a wonderful webapp called Mailstrom makes that dream a reality in hardly any time. Through clever sorting methods, it’ll show you your mailboxes in a different light and make it easy to clear out the crap in no time. More »

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When Every Student Realizes They Can Reply All and Spam Every Other Student It’s Fun for Everyone

When you connect a bunch of young college kids together on the Internet, any meeting eventually devolves into a crying mess of memes, Internet hall of fame pictures and a whole lot of trolling. So when students in Stanford’s computer science program realized that e-mailing one address would contact EVERY student, well, you bet it got real fun real fast. People were dropping tubgirl, rickrolls, meatspin and because it’s Stanford and it’s computer science, offering jobs at startups. More »

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