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YouTube, NASA and ESA ask teenagers to devise a scientific experiment to be carried out in the International Space Station

Massimo Luciani October 11, 2011 2

YouTube, NASA, ESA and other partners have announced the creation of Space Lab YouTube, a channel that asks students aged 14 to 18 to devise an experiment to be carried out in the International Space Station.

The Psalms Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and its transcription

The Dead Sea Scrolls go online

Massimo Luciani September 27, 2011 1

Thanks to a collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum, the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been put online in a section of the museum site specifically created. Initially, five scrolls have been put on-line but others are being digitized and the project plans to put online almost all those in possession of the museum by 2016.

Google+ opens registration to everyone

Massimo Luciani September 21, 2011 0

Social network Google Plus lifted all restrictions to registration.
Recently Google has made its social network’s APIs available to developers so in the future many applications might be available. The latest innovations include searches within Google+ and hangout, the videochat.

Videogame players solve a molecular biology problem connected to AIDS research

Massimo Luciani September 19, 2011 0

A group of videogame players solved in just over a week a problem of molecular biology that scientists from around the world weren’t able to solve in over a decade. These players have been able to decipher the enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that affects rhesus monkeys.

Google acquires 1,023 IBM patents

Massimo Luciani September 15, 2011 3

Confirmation arrived of the acquisition by Google of 1,023 IBM patents. No, it’s not the same story already published a few weeks ago: this is a new acquisition of a nearly equal number of patents and this time there is a complete list. Like a few weeks ago, however, the amount paid by Google remains confidential.