Arctic ice is undergoing rapid changes, and for the fourth year running, NASA scientists are flying missions above the region's forbidding landscapes to monitor the changes taking place there.
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NASA Says No Sensitive Information Breached in Unknowns Hack
NASA acknowledged Friday an attack on one of its websites by "The Unknowns," a group that has been publicly trickling information on websites it has hacked over the last few weeks.
The Unknowns claimed to have hacked a NASA website hosted at the Glenn Research Center on May 1, said Sally V. Harrington, a public affairs specialist with the center in Cleveland, Ohio, in an email statement.
"NASA security officials detected an intrusion into the site on April 20 and took it offline," she said. "The agency takes the issue of IT security very seriously and at no point was sensitive or controlled information compromised."
The Unknowns posted a wrap up of several weeks of hacking on Pastebin earlier this week, claiming to have also hit a subdomain belonging to the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense and the European Space Agency, among others.
The group also claimed to have hacked the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, but the website actually belongs to the Ministry of Development in Brunei, a small nation on Borneo next to Malaysia.
The Unknowns released about 215MB of documents that it said came from the U.S. Air Force. The information varied from receipts for expense reports to documents related to emergency communications plans. Many documents were dated 2012, and some carried the label "unclassified." U.S Air Force officials did not have an immediate comment.
The Unknowns wrote on its Twitter feed on Thursday that "we're soon going to e-mail our victims informing them on how we penetrated...their databases, they will get all the info they need."
On its Pastebin post, the group gave a bit more insight into its motives, saying to the websites affected "we probably harmed you a bit but that's not really our goal." They said if they wanted to do harm, the websites would have been defaced.
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Dryden's First NASA Social Kicks Off Today
May 4, 2012
Image Caption: Dryden Flight Research Center's fleet of aircraft in 1997. Credit: NASA/Tony Landis
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The NASA social is about to begin at the Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California, and those attending the event could not be more excited.
NASA invited 60 social media guests to Dryden to see what this leg of the U.S. space agency is all about.
During the event, NASAs guests will get to hear Kevin Rohrer, NASAs Chief of the Office of Strategic Communications, speak, as well as David McBride, Drydens Center Director.
Guests at the NASA Social will also have the opportunity to experience a sonic boom presentation, as well as take a walking tour of the Dryden facility.
Amidst pilots, engineers, and space enthusiasts, everyone involved in the NASA social has a common bond, so the sense of anticipation is overwhelming.
Dryden sits inside Californias Mojave desert, and at the facility you pick up on a vibe of the important role this center has played in the history of space exploration.
The Dryden Flight Research Center is NASAs main avenue for flight research, conducting atmospheric Earth and space science flight operations, and developing, verifying and transferring advanced aeronautics.
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NASA, Air Force and Harvard Computers Hacked by 'The Unknowns'
A previously unknown hackers‘ group calling themselves “The Unknowns” has compromised websites and obtained documents from NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense, the European Space Agency, the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, the Thai Royal Navy and Harvard University’s School of Public...
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NASA Budget Woes Paint Bleak Future for Earth Science
A new report on the state of NASA's Earth sciences program warns that future Earth-observing missions could be in jeopardy due to tightening budgets, launch failures, and changing mission priorities that may force projects to be delayed or cancelled outright.
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Obama to tout economy at nanotech center
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ALBANY, N.Y., May 4 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama will discuss an emerging U.S. innovation economy at a nanotechnology development and education center, the White House said late Friday.
Obama is to travel Tuesday to a $14 billion, 800,000-square-foot NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering on the campus of the University at Albany, the White House said in a statement, changing earlier plans.
Obama was to have gone to a nearly completed $4.6 billion GlobalFoundries Inc. computer chip plant about 20 miles from Albany, but switched "due to logistical reasons," the White House statement said Friday.
The college is closer to Albany International Airport than the chip-making plant and has better parking and a larger space for public events, said GlobalFoundries, which met with a White House advance team the past two days.
GlobalFoundries, which is test-manufacturing computer chips and expects to be fully operational this summer, is also still considered an active construction site, said the Milpitas, Calif., company.
"It's a massive undertaking and they want to have the right accommodations," company spokesman Travis Bullard told The (Saratoga Springs) Saratogian.
Representatives of GlobalFoundries -- formerly part of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-largest producer of computer chips -- "will join the president at CNSE," the White House statement said.
About 50 of GlobalFoundries' 1,300 local employees work at CNSE in research roles, Bullard told the newspaper.
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Educators discuss nanotechnology at SUNYIT forum
Local officials along with some 100 area educators and members of the public attended a nanotechnology forum at SUNYIT Thursday afternoon. The forum addressed aspects of nanotechnology for the business community as well as educators who teach anything from kindergarten to college classes. These forms are very vital for our work force and our educators, said Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, D - Utica. We want to make sure, that going forward; we have a work force that is well trained and ready to meet these job demands. SUNYIT President Bjong Wolf Yeigh asked those who attended the forum to try to formulate a plan as to how the Mohawk Valley can embrace nanofever. Build it and the people will come, said Bill Gaetano, of Gaetano Construction in Utica, referring to the planned Marcy NanoCenter. Its a great opportunity for our students.
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HBIO Reports First Quarter 2012 Revenue Growth of 8% Over First Quarter 2011
HOLLISTON, Mass., May 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (HBIO - News), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, today reported unaudited financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2012.
First Quarter Reported Results
Revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2012 were $28.3 million, an increase of $2.0 million, or 7.6%, compared to revenues of $26.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2011. Currency exchange rates had a negative 1.0% effect on revenues in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the first quarter of 2011. The Company's acquisitions of CMA Microdialysis AB ("CMA") in July 2011 and AHN Biotechnologie GmbH ("AHN") in February 2012 had a positive 4.4% effect on revenues. Excluding the effects of currency changes and acquisitions, the Company's organic revenue growth for the first quarter of 2012 was 4.2% over the same period in the previous year.
Net income, as measured under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), was $0.5 million, or $0.02 per diluted share for the three months ended March 31, 2012 compared to $1.7 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, for the same period in 2011. The unfavorable year-to-year quarterly GAAP earnings comparison was primarily due to increased spending in the Company's development-stage Regenerative Medicine Device ("RMD") business.
On a non-GAAP adjusted basis, earnings per share for our core Life Science Research Tools ("LSRT") business for the first quarter of 2012 were $0.09 per diluted share compared with $0.08 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share for our RMD business for the first quarter of 2012 was a loss of $0.03 per diluted share, compared with a loss of $0.01 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2011, and reflected greater activities in developing this new initiative. The Company's total non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share, reflecting LSRT and RMD combined, were $0.06 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2012 compared with $0.07 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2011.
Commenting on the Company's performance Chane Graziano, CEO, stated, "We are pleased with our first quarter 2012 performance. Overall our organic growth in orders was 6% and for revenues was 4% versus the first quarter of 2011, fueled by demand in each of our four major product groups. During the first quarter of 2012 we hired a new general manager at our Denville Scientific subsidiary and introduced an exciting new nano spectrophotometer product at our Biochrom subsidiary. We expect each to have a significant impact in the second half of 2012."
Mr. Graziano continued "In the second quarter of 2012, we expect revenues to be in the $28-$29 million range and we expect non-GAAP diluted earnings per share for our core LSRT business to be in the 9-10 cents per share range. In RMD, we expect second quarter operating expenses to be about 4 cents per diluted share. For the year, we are maintaining our guidance at $115-$120 million range for revenues and 39-42 cents non-GAAP diluted earnings per share range for our core LSRT business. We also continue to expect our RMD operating expenses to be about 13 cents per diluted share this year."
Our second quarter 2012 revenue and earnings guidance was calculated using exchange rates (USD 1.62/GBP and USD 1.32/Euro) approximating April 27, 2012 rates and assumes a continuation of the business conditions as we see them at this time. The non-GAAP adjusted earnings per diluted share guidance excludes amortization of intangible assets, impact of future acquisitions, acquisition costs, any future restructuring actions, and stock-based compensation expense recognized under the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 718, "Compensation -- Stock Compensation." See the table below for a reconciliation of our estimated non-GAAP adjusted earnings per diluted share to our estimated GAAP earnings per diluted share. See Exhibits 4, 5 and 6 for reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP adjusted operating income, GAAP to non-GAAP adjusted net income and GAAP diluted earnings per common share to non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per common share for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.
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University of Toronto Engineering Welcomes New NSERC Chair in Multidisciplinary Design
TORONTO, May 3, 2012 /CNW/ - University of Toronto Engineering Professor Kamran Behdinan was today named the NSERC Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design. In his role, Professor Behdinan will establish real-world multidisciplinary senior design projects, which will utilize industrial collaboration and support. The projects will span all nine undergraduate engineering programs at U of T's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering.
The establishment of multidisciplinary design projects will further unite design initiatives across the Faculty and encourage collaboration, design and innovation. The projects will encourage students to approach design on a national and international scale, addressing pressing issues such as sustainability.
"As the inaugural NSERC Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design, I look forward to strengthening U of T Engineering students' design education," said Professor Behdinan. "We will encourage our students to provide innovative solutions to critical challenges that are being addressed by industry."
Professor Behdinan is currently the Director of the newly established Institute for Multidisciplinary Design & Innovation in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. The Institute, which opened in January, facilitates engineering student learning and industry collaboration.
As a researcher, Professor Behdinan's focus is on improving aerospace and automotive systems by refining multi-scale simulation of nano-structured materials. He was previously the NSERC Engineering Design Chair-holder at Ryerson University. In addition, he serves as the President of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering.
"On behalf of the Faculty, I would like to congratulate and extend our gratitude to Professor Kamran Behdinan, who will bring tremendous expertise to his new role" said Engineering Dean Cristina Amon. "The support from NSERC, design faculty and industry partners are of critical importance to the Faculty, as we join efforts to enhance our multidisciplinary design education curriculum."
The new chair was made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the following industrial sponsors: AMD, Bombardier, Cameco Corporation, Canadian Tire, Defence Research and Development Canada, Ford, Goodrich, Magna International, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Sensor Technology, Teknion, Thermodyne Engineering and the University Health Network.
"During the development of any innovation, the design stage is arguably the most important for delivering a product that meets the needs of the consumer," said Suzanne Fortier, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). "As the NSERC Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design, Dr. Behdinan is leading the integration of design education within all of the University of Toronto's engineering departments. The students who receive training under these enhanced programs will find themselves in a unique position to understand and contribute to the needs of Canadian industries."
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Nano-Subs Grab and Move Oil Spills
Scientists say they have built a self-propelled "microsubmarine" that can scoop up oil from contaminated waters and take the droplets to a collection facility.
While environmental engineers have used bacterial dispersant to break down oil spills for decades and are developing genetically modified organisms to "eat" oil, this would be the first controllable spill-buster.
PHOTOS: Beauty of the Nano Art World
"These are autonomous self-propelled motors," said Joseph Wang, distinguished professor of nano-engineering at the University of California, San Diego. "You can guide them back and forth to remove oil. It's the first example of using nano-machines for environmental remediation and has opened the door to a new direction."
The study by Wang and Maria Guix of the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Barcelona appears in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. The project piggybacks off earlier experiments in the past few years in Wangs lab to build self-propelled devices to do DNA sampling and attack cancer cells in blood serum.
The new micro-subs have a special surface coating, which makes them "super-hydrophobic," or extremely water-repellent and oil-absorbent. This new coating was applied to one of the existing micro-devices that Wangs lab had already developed.
"It's like a big sub with a special coating," Wang said.
The cone-shaped subs are 10 times smaller than the width of a human hair, use chemicals for fuel, and in the experiments, collected droplets of olive oil and motor oil and transported them to another area. If successful, Wang says the micro-subs could be used to clean up massive oil spills, without harming marine or coastal habitats.
PHOTOS: How NanoTech Can Make A Better You
The ultimate use for these devices could be found the 1966 sci-fi film 'Fantastic Voyage' in which a team of scientists (including Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance) were put into a sub-like craft, shrunk and then injected into the human body to save a diplomat's life, according to Thomas Mallouk, director of the Center for Solar Nanomaterials at Pennsylvania State University.
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Nano-subs built to grab and move oil spills
Scientists say they have built a self-propelled "microsubmarine" that can scoop up oil from contaminated waters and take the droplets to a collection facility.
While environmental engineers have used bacterial dispersant to break down oil spills for decades and are developing genetically modified organisms to "eat" oil, this would be the first controllable spill-buster.
PHOTOS: Beauty of the Nano Art World
"These are autonomous self-propelled motors," said Joseph Wang, distinguished professor of nano-engineering at the University of California, San Diego. "You can guide them back and forth to remove oil. It's the first example of using nano-machines for environmental remediation and has opened the door to a new direction."
The study by Wang and Maria Guix of the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Barcelona appears in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. The project piggybacks off earlier experiments in the past few years in Wangs lab to build self-propelled devices to do DNA sampling and attack cancer cells in blood serum.
The new micro-subs have a special surface coating, which makes them "super-hydrophobic," or extremely water-repellent and oil-absorbent. This new coating was applied to one of the existing micro-devices that Wangs lab had already developed.
"It's like a big sub with a special coating," Wang said.
The cone-shaped subs are 10 times smaller than the width of a human hair, use chemicals for fuel, and in the experiments, collected droplets of olive oil and motor oil and transported them to another area. If successful, Wang says the micro-subs could be used to clean up massive oil spills, without harming marine or coastal habitats.
PHOTOS: How NanoTech Can Make A Better You
The ultimate use for these devices could be found the 1966 sci-fi film 'Fantastic Voyage' in which a team of scientists (including Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance) were put into a sub-like craft, shrunk and then injected into the human body to save a diplomat's life, according to Thomas Mallouk, director of the Center for Solar Nanomaterials at Pennsylvania State University.
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Video: N.Y. lab creating jobs with nano-technology
A lab in New York state's capital isn't waiting for an economic turnaround - it's creating one. Jim Axelrod reports by using the science of sub-atomic particles, Albany's College of Nano Science and Engineering is creating computer chips - and jobs.
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This Week in Experimental and Molecular Pathology
In Experimental and Molecular Pathology, researchers in China and the US report that IL-21R expression on CD8+ T-cells promotes their activation in coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis. The team infected C57Bl/6 and IL-21R knock-out mice with CVB3 and found that the IL-21RKO mice developed significantly less myocarditis than C57Bl/6 animals. "Numbers of CD8+IFN+ cells were decreased in IL-21RKO mice but numbers of either CD4+IFN+ or CD4+IL-4+ cells were not significantly different from C57Bl/6 animals indicating a selective effect of IL-21 signaling on the CD8+ T cell response," the authors write. This, they add, suggests that IL-21 signaling directly in CD8+ T-cells in required for CVB3-induced myocarditis.
Also in Experimental and Molecular Pathology this week, researchers in New York report that the drug sirolimus modulates the HIV-associated nephropathy phenotype by inhibiting epithelial mesenchymal transition. In its study, the team observed the effects of sirolimus on the development of renal cell EMT and on HIVAN in a mouse model of HIVAN. The HIVAN mice that received saline showed enhanced proliferation of both glomerular and tubular cells compared to control mice that also received saline, the team says. However, HIVAN mice receiving sirolimus showed attenuated renal cell proliferation compared to HIVAN mice receiving saline. "Since sirolimus attenuated renal cell ZEB expression (a repressor of E-cadherin transcription), it appears that sirolimus may be attenuating renal cell EMT by preserving epithelial cell E-cadherin expression," the authors add.
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Cutting Edge Technology Coming To DMH
DECATUR, IL- Decatur Memorial Hospital is in the process of constructing a Center for Advanced Molecular Medicine.
The center will allow DMH to improve the diagnosis of cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease. The hospital will also be able to produce the agents and drugs it needs right on site.
This technology is available in only a few places in the entire United States, like the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin.
DMH Dr. Mark Muscato calls the project "very cutting edge" and the "new wave of medicine."
"Most places that have these (centers) are very large academic institutions," Dr. Muscato says. "So it is a great opportunity for our hospital and the City of Decatur to be involved and have this opportunity."
When the project is finished, Decatur Memorial Hospital will be the only hospital in Illinois with this technology.Construction of the center will be completed in about a month.
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Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks?
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This article does not attempt to cover the whole field, but offers, by means of some examples, a few insights into how nanotechnology has the potential to change medicine, both in the research lab and clinically, while touching on some of the challenges and concerns that it raises.
The ability to manipulate structures and properties at the nanoscale in medicine is like having a sub-microscopic lab bench on which you can handle cell components, viruses or pieces of DNA, using a range of tiny tools, robots and tubes.
This creates a need for tools that help scientists experiment and develop such treatments.
Imagine, for example, being able to stretch out a section of DNA like a strand of spaghetti, so you can examine or operate on it, or building nanorobots that can "walk" and carry out repairs inside cell components. Nanotechnology is bringing that scientific dream closer to reality.
For instance, scientists at the Australian National University have managed to attach coated latex beads to the ends of modified DNA, and then using an "optical trap" comprising a focused beam of light to hold the beads in place, they have stretched out the DNA strand in order to study the interactions of specific binding proteins.
One of the researchers, Ned Seeman, said he envisages it will be possible to create a molecule-scale production line, where you move a molecule along till the right location is reached, and a nanobot does a bit chemisty on it, rather like "spot-welding" on a car assembly line. Seeman's lab at NYU is also looking to use DNA nanotechnology to make a biochip computer, and to find out how biological molecules crystallize, an area that is currently fraught with challenges.
The work that Seeman and colleagues are doing is a good example of "biomimetics", where with nanotechnology they can imitate some of the biological processes in nature, such as the behavior of DNA, to engineer new methods and perhaps even improve them.
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your always on my mind, i think about you all the time .. JILEY. { HBD tobi } – Video
03-05-2012 11:56 hello(: i know, i know .. its been such a long time since it was your bday, and im so sorry for making this so late :/ actually, uploading this so late. xo but you know(; i love you tobi, your an awsome friend and hopefully, all your wishes came true! 😀 btw. this was a total joke. i wanted to do something fun, and i love this boy that sings this song, and i love this song, and it was so much fun to do this, not only because like, at the begining you have a feeling i will be telling you, i love you xoo but because its such a cool song, and im feeling this way to many guys, so i love it xo anyways, hope you like it(: please, comment & like, if you dislike, please tell me the reason why? what am i doing wrong? kk thanks bye(:
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WTRF.com SLIDESHOW: Pictures Around the Ohio Valley from May 4
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Look up! 'Supermoon' to appear on Saturday night
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -
If you're out drinking at Cinco de Mayo parties Saturday night and the moon looks strikingly bigger and brighter than normal, it's not just the tequilla messing with your mind.
The biggest full moon of the year, dubbed "supermoon," will be happen at 8:35 p.m. Saturday.
You can upload your photos of the supermoon to KSBW.com's ulocal section.
Why is this full moon "super"? As the moon orbits the Earth, there are specific times when it is closest to and farthest away from our planet. Saturday's moon will get within 221,802 miles of Earth.
The best location to view the moon at its largest is when it is along the horizon after rising and just before setting. Viewing the moon behind buildings and trees creates an optical illusion so it appears even larger.
The last "supermoon" happened in March 2011.
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