French government reveals industry sponsored anti-piracy body Source:Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source(Saturday, November 24, 2007) After brokering a deal between record companies, film corporations, internet firms and itself, the French government has unveiled a new anti-piracy body formed to counter what President Nicolas Sarkozy has described as the growing use of the internet as a "lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works with abandon or, worse, trade in them in total impunity".
Internet service providers will be forced to monitor the activities of their clients, and will restrict access for users known to be partaking in file sharing of ed media. In some cases, ISPs will be instructed to either cut off internet access entirely or threaten to do so.
The French consumer group UFC Que Choisir criticised the deal as being "very tough, potentially destructive of freedom, anti-economic and against digital history".
Film companies have agreed to hasten the cinema-to-DVD process as part of their obligations under the deal, and record companies have indicated future support for the sale of Digital Rights ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Thursday, November 22, 2007)
Two International Space Station astronauts completed a 7 hour and 16 minutes spacewalk this morning that saw the completion of the ISS's newest room, Harmony.
Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Daniel Tani began their ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News-Add your News to free news source (Tuesday, November 6, 2007)
The space shuttle Discovery is coming back to Earth after 11 days in orbit. The a scan of the Shuttle's heat shield (now routine since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster showed no cause for concern and Discovery was cleared for the ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News-Add your News to free news source (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
Lisa Coolett, a woman who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand has found a one centimeter
wide pebble that supposedly shows the image of the Virgin Mary. She found the pebble
while walking on a beach on the South Island of New ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News-Add your News to free news source (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
The People's Republic of China today launched its first moon orbiter as part of the country's lunar exploration program.
At 18:00 hours local time (10:00 UTC) the rocket Chang'e 1 lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Wednesday, October 17, 2007)
American preservationists breathed a sigh of relief in August as the Farnsworth House, a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed house widely considered a masterpiece of modern architecture, was spared by flooding along the Fox River in Plano. ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Tuesday, October 23, 2007)
The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected, according to a new study published in Tuesday's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study said that rising ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Sunday, October 7, 2007)
According to reports, American biologist Craig Venter is going to announce that he has created the first ever "artificial life form" on Earth at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a U.S. laboratory and research center, using synthetic ... Go to Complete Coverage
Using new techniques, scientists from NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to previous thought, water was not entirely vaporized in the violent events that formed the Moon. The new study suggests that the water came from the Moon’s interior and was delivered to the surface via volcanic eruptions over 3 billion years ago. The finding calls into question some critical aspects of the “giant impact” theory of the Moon’s formation and may have implications for the origin of possible water reservoirs at the Moon’s poles. The research is published in the July 10, 2008, of Nature.
Researchers from the NAIÂ’s University of Arizona Team have published a new study in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters of the potential habitability of the extrasolar planetary system OGLE-2006-BLG-109L. The first multiple-planet system ever to be discovered by gravitational microlensing, it has two large planets similar to Jupiter and Saturn. ItÂ’s possible that the system harbors other planets, including Earth-like planets, that are beyond the sensitivity of the microlensing observations.
Their study examines the prospects for an Earth-like habitable planet in this system. They found that two smaller putative Earth-mass planets, perhaps yet undetected, could produce a planetary architecture of a potentially habitable system. With two “terrestrial” planets and two Jovian planets, it could bear very close resemblance to our own solar system.
A recent study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters from NAIÂ’s Teams at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and University of Wisconsin, shows that nucleic acids of extraterrestrial origin are present in the Murchison meteorite. Carbon-rich meteorites such as the Murchison are thought to be responsible for delivering biologically-relevant organic material to the young Earth. These results demonstrate that the nucleic acids discovered in the meteorite, which are components of the genetic code in modern biochemistry, were already present in the early solar system and may have played a key role in lifeÂ’s origin. Read more at ScienceNOW.
Researchers from NAI's Penn State Team announced at the American Society of Microbiology General Meeting in Boston their discovery of a novel species of ultra-small bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The species is related genetically to certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some plants, yet it has persisted in a low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat. The study's authors speculate that it's unusual size helped enable it's survival in the ice for so long.
Researchers from NAI's University of California, Berkeley Team have a new study in Science focused on Box Canyon in Idaho. Incised into a basaltic plain with no drainage network upstream, and approximately 10 cubic meters per second of seepage emanating from its vertical headwall, the canyon is a veritable poster child of groundwater seepage erosion. But this new study posits evidence that the canyon?s formation was caused rather by catastrophic megaflood 45,000 years ago. Their results imply that flooding of this kind may have caused similar features on Mars.
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