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China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face fines for nonpayment. http://phys.org/news288173142.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 May 2013 10:10:01 EST news288173142 Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex colour-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. http://phys.org/news288173241.html Technology Sun, 19 May 2013 09:50:01 EST news288173241 Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and "anti-terrorism technology" trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China's huge internal security budget. http://phys.org/news288173106.html Technology Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:01 EST news288173106 Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say. http://phys.org/news288173281.html Technology Sun, 19 May 2013 09:08:14 EST news288173281 A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month's mission in orbit on Sunday with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars. http://phys.org/news288173011.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 May 2013 09:03:47 EST news288173011 (AP)—Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. http://phys.org/news288172971.html Biology Sun, 19 May 2013 09:03:04 EST news288172971 Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city's high levels of roadside pollution. http://phys.org/news288100940.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 13:40:01 EST news288100940 Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system which was launched as a rival to the US global positioning system, a report said Saturday. http://phys.org/news288101018.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 13:20:02 EST news288101018 Morocco is ploughing ahead with a programme to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where Africa's largest wind farm is set to open in 2014. http://phys.org/news288100906.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 13:02:02 EST news288100906 (AP)—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists who are forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong. http://phys.org/news288100879.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 13:01:31 EST news288100879 Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center in red and yellow hues is not the product of love, as in the song, but is instead a frenetic region of star formation. http://phys.org/news288096834.html Space & Earth Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:01 EST news288096834 (Phys.org) —Yawn. Two startup visionaries claim they have just the device to replace keyboard and mouse forever and ever. Where have you heard that before. But maybe these two have something important. Meron Gribetz, the startup founder and CEO and Ben Sand, the co-pilot and evangelist, are behind something called the Meta wearable computer headset, which consists of stereoscopic glasses and camera. It's the way computers always should have been: wearable, viewed through both eyes, and directly controlled using the entire arms and hands, according to its founder and CEO Gribetz. The belief is that the future of computing is in this technology that can display information from the real world and control objects with one's fingers, Tony Stark-style, at low latency and high dexterity. Meta founder and CEO Gribetz referred to the technology as the keyboard and mouse of the future. http://phys.org/news288096606.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 11:50:38 EST news288096606 Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal. http://phys.org/news288089718.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 09:55:42 EST news288089718 (Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, has successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. http://phys.org/news288076223.html Space & Earth Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:01 EST news288076223 (Phys.org) —NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water. http://phys.org/news288075812.html Space & Earth Sat, 18 May 2013 06:04:53 EST news288075812 US authorities seized the accounts of a Bitcoin digital currency exchange operator, claiming it was functioning as an "unlicensed money service business," court documents showed Friday. http://phys.org/news288061032.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 01:57:58 EST news288061032 Eight Chinese and two Indian airlines face fines of up to several million euros for not paying for their greenhouse gas emissions during flights within the bloc, the European Commission said on Friday. http://phys.org/news288060949.html Space & Earth Sat, 18 May 2013 01:56:03 EST news288060949 (AP)—One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes has shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air in an ongoing eruption that has drawn attention from a nearby community but isn't expected to threaten air traffic. http://phys.org/news288060788.html Space & Earth Sat, 18 May 2013 01:53:27 EST news288060788 (AP)—Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promising to unveil "something special" Monday in New York as she tries to attract more traffic and advertising to the Internet company. http://phys.org/news288060749.html Technology Sat, 18 May 2013 01:52:43 EST news288060749 (AP)—Over the past two years, publishers have been steadily filling one of the largest gaps in the e-book catalogue—poetry. http://phys.org/news288028772.html Technology Fri, 17 May 2013 17:10:02 EST news288028772 By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from the humidity and the sounds of wildlife. http://phys.org/news288029316.html Biology Fri, 17 May 2013 17:09:04 EST news288029316 In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the emergence of novel pathogens as well as old foes bearing heightened antibiotic resistance. http://phys.org/news288029054.html Chemistry Fri, 17 May 2013 17:04:38 EST news288029054 (AP)—The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but the U.S. Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it. http://phys.org/news288028868.html Electronics Fri, 17 May 2013 17:01:26 EST news288028868 On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 745 miles per second. The solar material in CMEs cannot pass through the atmosphere to affect humans on Earth. http://phys.org/news288028329.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 May 2013 16:52:27 EST news288028329 Italian police on Friday arrested four alleged hackers believed to belong to the activist group Anonymous for attacking websites, including those of the Vatican and the parliament in Rome. http://phys.org/news288020353.html Technology Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:01 EST news288020353 NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen's rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16. Mahasen has since dissipated over eastern India. http://phys.org/news288020324.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 May 2013 14:50:04 EST news288020324 Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and City University of New York have invented a proprietary new formulation called Visikol that effectively clears organisms to be viewed under microscopes. Visikol can be used in place of chloral hydrate, which is one of the few high-quality clearing solutions currently available but which is tightly regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) due to its use as a narcotic. http://phys.org/news288020241.html Biology Fri, 17 May 2013 14:40:01 EST news288020241 The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was short-lived. Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was named. http://phys.org/news288020298.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:30 EST news288020298 Tweets containing hateful words are coming in larger proportions from people living in the eastern half of the United States, according to a new map that tracked hate speech on Twitter. http://phys.org/news288015186.html Technology Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:02 EST news288015186 Google says it's still figuring out the best ways to use Glass, but the company announced Thursday that Facebook, Twitter and several other media firms have built their own applications for the futuristic-looking wearable computer. http://phys.org/news288015028.html Technology Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:01 EST news288015028