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Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared -- Joby Warrick  -- Washington Post  -- May 12, 2008

At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region to Latin America have recently approached U.N. officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations.

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Avoiding "Inadvertent" Nuclear War in Two Easy Steps -- Ron Rosenbaum  -- Slate.com  -- May 09, 2008

The author looks at recent nuclear 'near-misses' and urges more attention to be paid by the public and presidential candidates to the risk of accidental or inadvertent nuclear war. As a solution, he looks at the proposals for "dealerting" put forward by Dr. Bruce Blair of the World Security Institute.

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Japan to Allow Military Use of Space -- Staff  -- Agence France Press  -- May 09, 2008

Japanese lawmakers voted Friday to allow the military use of space, breaking a decades-old taboo in the officially pacifist country which has an increasingly ambitious space programme. The move will remove any legal obstacles to building more advanced spy satellites.

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Biologists Enlist Online Gamers -- Katherine Bourzac  -- Technology Review  -- May 08, 2008

Players of a new online game called Foldit will help design three-dimensional protein structures for HIV vaccines, and enzymes for repairing DNA in diseased tissues. David Baker, a leading protein scientist at the University of Washington, teamed up with computer scientists to create the game.

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Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project' -- Fred Pearce  -- New Scientist  -- May 07, 2008

The world's climate modellers are drawing up plans for a global supercomputing center with computing power of 100 petaflops that would provide detailed local forecasts of future climate change, with the intent of generating useful forecasts of water supply, droughts, health, and future food supply.

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* RANDOM * Ferreting Out Virus 'DNA' -- Michelle Delio  -- Wired News  -- November 05, 2001

Tools used to detect computer viruses and stop malicious hack attacks may not be as effective as they could be because they lack the human touch. Security experts contend that protecting computers from people-created plagues and problems requires technology based on human biology and behavior.

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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties' -- Noah Shachtman  -- Wired.com  -- May 06, 2008

DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has released a request for proposals to develop a National Cyber Range, part of a $30 billion, government-wide effort to prepare for online battle.

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Delaying Data could cut Net's Carbon Footprint -- Mason Inman  -- New Scientist  -- May 05, 2008

US academics and researchers have worked out how to make energy savings of around 50%, by delaying data flowing into a network by just a few milliseconds.

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China Satellite Navigation System Planned for 2010 -- Peter B. de Selding  -- Space.com  -- May 05, 2008

Chinese satellite navigation officials say they intend to field an operational system covering all of Asia by 2010, but they are giving few details on the deployment plans for their global system. In addition China has yet to complete frequency coordination with the United States, Europe, Russia and others.

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'Flammable Ice' could be Mined for Fuel -- Staff  -- New Scientist  -- April 23, 2008

"Flammable ice" or methane hydrates, could be the world's last great source of carbon-based fuel - assuming the methane can be mined from the crystal lattices of ice that trap it beneath ocean beds and permafrost.

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Laptops as Earthquake Sensors -- Anna Davison  -- Technology Review  -- April 22, 2008

Earthquake researchers in California hope to take advantage of the motion sensors in laptops to create an earthquake-sensing network. By putting computers in homes and businesses to work as seismic monitors, the researchers hope to pull together a wealth of information on major quakes, and perhaps even offer early warnings, giving a few seconds' notice of a potentially devastating quake.

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