This is how one orbit lap looks like from the space station - the sun going the full round. This one was going parallel to terminator so the sun never sets/rises. It just makes the full loop.
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Everyone is panicking and rightfully so because a really, really awful security bug was discovered. One that lets people get random fragments of data that supposed to be supper secure. It is as bad as everyone says and you can't do anything about it - it has to be fixed on the server sites by providers - and noone knows what data got out - the ( Read more... )

I got my 3Doodler - pen that uses 3D printer plastic so you can draw 3D objects. I Kickstarted it and now I have it. I spent this evening trying it out. Here are some of my first tries:

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I'll get to Nobels tomorrow when last of the science ones gets announced. Today I'm talking about some newer science.

There is a chance that world's first malaria vaccine - called RTS,S - will be available pretty soon. Right now it's on its way to the European Medicines Agency to be filed in 2014. If everything goes well, it can be approved in ( Read more... )

Due to an error in the ebook version George R. R. Martin - A Feast for Crows was randomly inserted into the text of the novel. Internet as always found a way to make it into meme.

Steven Erikson is going to answer questions about Toll the Hounds on tor.com - he does that after they finish reread of each of the books. I can't wait for The Crippled ( Read more... )

So I concentrated on body augmentation but other things happened in science recently, too.

We learned last years that dolphins introduce themselves by name (their signature whistle) but it turns out they also call friends and family members by their names (copy their signature whistles) when they look for them. That's makes them the only other ( Read more... )

Today's episode of science links is all about replacement body parts and interfacing them.

Remember, I mentioned 3D printing lately and all the wonderful things they can make for us. It turns out one of those things can be body parts. Scientists from Cornell University made a replacement ear by putting injection of living, cartilage-producing ( Read more... )

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You can pick a face expression that will be on Cory Doctorow's head 3D print. The face expressions are presented by John Scalzi. I can't stop thinking Doctorow has no chance of replicating it correctly. Especially that one cross eye.

If just sharing your 3D bust is not SF enough for you here is a chip that will turn you into a battery. Coming next ( Read more... )

I just got my new Kindle Paperwhite. I bought it for myself on birthday but due to demand I had to wait. It came faster then I expected - at first it was to be delivered by the end of the month. It came yesterday. Amazon has been spanning me with emails about how I should prepare for its arrival for about a week.

It is nice. I mentioned before there ( Read more... )