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From Space Newsgroups: NASA Reveals Exoplanets True Colors

For some of us, the most fascinating part of space discovery isn’t when we learn something exists, but when we learn what that thing looks like and can actually see it. Landing a rover on Mars is incredible, but actually...

July 7, 2013

Science Uncategorized Usenet

New Software Allows Large Data Analysis on Personal Computers

Need to analyze big data (i.e. large computations analyzing data from a large sample)? Your own computer may now be able to help thanks to new software developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. What was once the domain...

July 19, 2012

General Science Usenet

Police Field-Testing New Software Stopping Crimes Before They Happen

The new software doesn’t predict who is going to commit the crime, as was the case in the movie Minority Report, but it attempts to predict where the crime will be committed. USENET newsgroup subscribers are currently discussing George Mohler,...

October 18, 2011

General Science Technology Uncategorized

Human Magnets on USENET

Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new USENET newsgroup post on biology newsgroups that include a study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic...

June 21, 2011

General Science Technology Uncategorized

Men: Reproduction Probability Better With Desktops Than Laptops

If there was ever a reason for men to switch or stay with desktop computers, it’s this: Your laptop could be cooking your testicles. A new study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility and being discussed on USENET newsgroups...

November 9, 2010

General Science Technology Usenet

Space Newsgroups Migrate To New Planet

Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington said Wednesday the planet has three times the mass of Earth and orbits its star at a distance that places it smack in the middle of...

September 30, 2010

General Science Technology Usenet

Experts Claim Usenet Newsgroups Make You Smarter

Most experts agree that the Internet and USENET won’t make us stupid. Now there is proof. USENET newsgroups report that a good 76% of technology stakeholders and critics interviewed by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and...

February 22, 2010

General Science Technology Usenet

CERN Hadron Collider Back Online Causes Newsgroup Spike

Science, Physics, Chemistry, Astrological and even more themed newsgroups are all about the Hadron Collider again. The world's most powerful particle accelerator, designed to recreate the Big Bang of the universe, has been restarted after more than a year of...

November 24, 2009

General Science Technology Usenet

Study: USENET Newsgroups Does Not Cause Anti-Social Behavior

The project found that both the size and diversity of people's discussion networks are actually higher on average for those who participate on online social networks, like USENET newsgroups, challenging a 2006 report that blamed technology for an increase in...

November 5, 2009

General Science

Medical Newsgroups: Virus May Cause Prostate Cancer

Medical newsgroups are reporting a finding with potentially major implications for identifying a viral cause of prostate cancer. The report states that researchers at the University of Utah and Columbia University medical schools have discovered a type of virus known...

September 8, 2009