February 2007 in science

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Events in Science and Technology

February 27 2007

*The New Horizons spacecraft makes a flyby of the planet Jupiter on its way to Pluto. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6400883.stm BBC News]

*A hail storm damages the external tank of STS-117 while sitting on the launch pad, and will delay the launch by at least multiple weeks. [http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1198 (SpaceRef.com)]

February 25 2007

*The Rosetta spacecraft successfully swings by the planet Mars on its way to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6394141.stm (BBCNews)]

February 23 2007

*In a poster session at the Cosyne 07 academic conference, researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and the University of Nevada present a neural-level computer simulation of half a mouse brain at one tenth its normal speed; the massively parallel simulation, covering the equivalent of one second's brain activity, is run on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer with 4096 processors, each one having 256 MB of memory (for a total memory size of 1 TB). The presentation's title is "Towards real-time, mouse-scale cortical simulations". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm (BBC News)] [http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6211.html (NordicHardware.com)]

February 11 2007

*Researchers identify genetic clues to type 2 diabetes. [http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/02/12/researchers_identify_genes_linked_to_diabetes/ (Boston Globe)]

February 7 2007

* ICANN reports that its root nameserver is under a massive denial-of-service attack from an unknown source. At the same time, servers managed by US Defense Department and UltraDNS are also being targeted. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6338261.stm (BBCNews)]

February 2 2007

* An IPCC meeting at Paris, France, ends with a report that finds a probability of 90 % or higher that human actions are creating a warming trend in the world's climate, causing global warming. [http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-02-02T233312Z_01_L01923284_RTRUKOC_0_US-GLOBALWARMING-WRAP.xml&WTmodLoc=SciNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-2 (Reuters)]

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