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[edit] Events in science and technology

[edit] June 30, 2009 (Tuesday)

• The interplanetary space probe Ulysses mission ends. (Reuters)

[edit] June 20, 2009 (Saturday)

• Groundbreaking occurs for Spaceport America in New Mexico. (BBC)

[edit] June 12, 2009 (Friday)

• The transition from analog to digital television signals is completed in the United States. (AP)

[edit] June 11, 2009 (Thursday)

• Element 112 has been officially recognized by IUPAC and will be added to the periodic table once a name has been chosen. (Reuters).

[edit] June 9, 2009 (Tuesday)

• The Sims 3 sells 1.4 million copies in the first week, making it the best game launch in EA history. This adds to the over 100 million copies of The Sims franchise; which is the best-selling game ever. (AP)

[edit] June 8, 2009 (Monday)

• Apples announces the iPhone 3G S. (ABC)

[edit] May 30, 2009 (Saturday)

• The National Ignition Facility opens becoming the largest laser in the world. It will be used to validate aging nuclear warheads, better understand the middle of stars and planets; and possibly kick start fusion power. (SFGate)

[edit] May 28, 2009 (Thursday)

• HDMI 1.4 features are announced, including new networking and upstream audio abilities. (CNet)

[edit] May 22, 2009 (Friday)

• The International Institute for Species Exploration names its top 10 new species. (CNN)

[edit] May 19, 2009 (Monday)

• An almost complete 47 million year old fossil of a lemur-like animal called 'Ida' is hailed as a key ancestor to primates. (ABC)

[edit] May 18, 2009 (Monday)

• Wolfram Alpha, a new computational search engine, will use algorithms to scour the internet and ideally give direct pertinent information. (Reuters)

[edit] May 15, 2009 (Friday)

• Soya plants around Chernobyl provide clues to evolving plants for space exploration. (NewScientist)
• Fujitsu creates the fastest supercomputer CPU that computes at 128 billion times per second, beating the previous Intel leader by 2.5 times. (PhysOrg)

[edit] May 12, 2009 (Wednesday)

• Google launches new search tools to refine categories and chronology within search results. (PCMag)

[edit] May 11, 2009 (Tuesday)

• NASA launches STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. (WashingtonPost)

[edit] April 30, 2009 (Thursday)

• The origin of Aurora Borealis is found—electric space tornadoes. (TimesOnline)

[edit] April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)

• Modern technology maps new sections of the Great Wall of China. (BBC News).
• Scientists discover Gliese 581 e, the smallest exoplanet ever found. They also find that Gliese 581 d, an exoplanet known since 2007, lies in the habitable zone, meaning it could harbor liquid water. (MSNBC)

[edit] April 19, 2009 (Sunday)

• Egyptian archaeologist finds artifacts which may lead to Cleopatra's tomb. (Associated Press)

[edit] April 16, 2009 (Thursday)

• Asexual ants discovered in the Amazon. (BBC)

[edit] April 13, 2009 (Friday)

• 30 brightly coloured mummies discovered in Egyptian necropolis. (PressTV)

[edit] April 10, 2009 (Friday)

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launches VORTEX2 to study tornadoes. (Associated Press)

[edit] April 5, 2009 (Sunday)

• Welsh Aberystwyth University announces intelligent robot conducting biology experiments. (Reuters)

[edit] April 3, 2009 (Friday)

• Mushroom corals found to change sex from male to female and back again. (Discovery News)

[edit] April 1, 2009 (Wednesday)

• Honda demonstrates mind-reading robotic technology. (The Associated Press)

[edit] March 31, 2009 (Tuesday)

• E-mail spam has returned to normal levels (94% of all e-mail) following the McColo shutdown. (NYTimes)

[edit] March 30, 2009 (Monday)

• Microsoft is closing down Encarta, its digital encyclopedia. (CNet)
• Researchers uncover a way to easily detect Conficker infections on a network. (CNet)

[edit] March 27, 2009 (Friday)

• The nanopore method of DNA sequencing has been successfully tested in the lab for the first time. It is a candidate to dramatically speed up and reduce the cost of sequencing. (PhysOrg)

[edit] March 23, 2009 (Tuesday)

• A report by NASA concludes a plasma ball released from the Sun could cause $2 trillion dollars in damage and kill millions in the developed world from the resulting long term power outage. A geomagnetic storm similar to the Carrington event of 1859 could bring down the electrical grid. (NewScientist)

[edit] March 17, 2009 (Tuesday)

• Fossilized remains of small dinosaur rediscovered in Canada. (SciAm)
• The Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device developed by the Engineering Science Analysis Corporation, offers police officers both a quick and safe way to end car chases. (PopSci)

[edit] March 12, 2009 (Thursday)

• Apple Inc. reveals new iPod shuffle with voice. (Reuters)
• Space debris threatens International Space Station, astronauts temporarily evacuated. (NASAspaceflight.com)

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