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  1. Web More Vulnerable Than Expected?

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the tipping-the-dominoes dept. · 155 comments
    latro writes: "A BBC story talks about a recent study that claims that knocking out the top 4% of busy nodes would break the Internet into "disconnected islands." Here's the Nature article, which is really more about the error tolerance of complex systems in general, with the Web as an example."

  2. Statistics On Free Software projects

    Developers · Programming · · posted by Hemos · from the cool-bunch-of-stats dept. · 93 comments
    GenericBoy writes: "The first edition of The Orbiten Free Software Survey is out online. Some of the stats are number of authors and projects, the top 10 contributing authors, how many MB are in all of the free software projects put together (!) and a bunch more. " Now, as they themselves point out in the their Scope and Method, the methodology is crude, and I don't think Orbiten could quite submit it to Nature yet or anything, but it's an interesting bunch of stats.

  3. Universe's Curvature Measured?

    Science · Space · · posted by Hemos · from the it's-four dept. · 161 comments
    jmobiusmaximus writes "Right next to the wormhole site on the BBC News page is an article about the results of the Boomerang project in Antarctica. This resulted in a new map of the 2.7K cosmic microwave background radiation, which is thought to be a remnant of the energy released in the Big Bang. The BBC News synopsis isn't bad, and has some links that will answer most "WTF?" questions. For those of you who have taken a little bit of physics, the original Nature article is better. This could have a large impact on our understanding of the universe's evolution and will probably be the source of much debate in the near future. "

  4. Better Holographic Data Storage

    News · News · · posted by emmett · from the pretty-cool dept. · 110 comments
    Pinlighter writes "Optical holographic data storage has the potential of providing better storage densities and access rates than the magnetic media used today. However, the technology has problems, mostly because the information tends to get a bit scrambled each time it is reread. According to the link, a group of Japanese scientists have now developed a material which is stable for hours and across multiple rereadings. The material also allows easy erasure (by UV light) and rewriting."

  5. Solar Powered Chemical Processing

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the that's-what-the-sun-is-good-for dept. · 48 comments
    evileconboy writes "I found a great story about the creation of artificial porphyrin-based molecules that can absorb light like chlorophyll. The molecules absorb photons from porphyrin "antannae" charging a buckyball which acts like an acceptor. Apparently, the scientists want to use the molecule to drive other reactions. But I wouldn't be surprised if they could create a type of efficient, artificial leaf-like solar panel with these molecules. Forget silicon or other gallium based photovoltaic cells! "

  6. Web: 19 Clicks Wide

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the we're-just-one-small-family dept. · 114 comments
    InitZero writes "The journal Nature reports that the web is only 19 clicks wide. What it fails to mention is that a least one of those must be through Kevin Bacon. " The graphic at the beginning of the article is gorgeous in a Mandelbrot style-now if I could just have it in a 24 x 30 print.

  7. Paper in nature on "Internet Tomography"

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 19 comments
    rafial writes "A group called CADIA has just published a paper in Nature that describes there work on " Internet Tomography." Essentially they are firing large numbers of pings trough the Internet and analysing the results to analyze topology and performance. Lots of neat pictures, and they are using FreeBSD to conduct their research! " Sweet looking stuff. Check it out.