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TUDOR VIERU
Unknowingly, I've been a science geek for the better part of the last 20 years, but it was only here that I figured out the full extent of my passion for all things new. The first story I wrote about galaxies and black holes won me over, and so I've been writing for Softpedia since late 2008.
Since then, I've literally covered more subjects and topics than I can possibly hope to remember, but I can honestly say that I could go on doing this forever. Working a “normal” job can quickly become routine, but being a science editor is anything but boring.
When not busy with science articles, I like to play my bass guitar, make music, hang out with friends and listen to the latest songs by my favorite bands. I also take my aggressive rollerblading to the streets from time to time, though my skills aren't what they once were.
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Scientists operating the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter announce the discovery of important amounts of sulfur and sulfur-enriched minerals inside the southern half of the Vivaldi basin, on the surface of Mercury.
The spacecraft, which achieved orbital insertion ... |
2 October 2012
10:00 UTC |
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According to a new study by investigators at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it would appear that people engaged in humanitarian aid actions are at higher risk of developing depression and anxiety than their peers.
The investigation was based on studying 212 international humanitarian worke... |
2 October 2012
09:51 UTC |
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An invasion of coral-eating sea stars is causing extensive damage to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest ensemble of corals in the world. The conclusion belongs to a new scientific paper, released today, October 2.
Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) published the details o... |
2 October 2012
09:33 UTC |
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A new, 11-minute clip from the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) features human motivation and behavior expert Dan Ariely, giving an animated presentation on the topic of human dishonesty, and how it is grounded in our minds.
The expert highlights two main drives that we h... |
2 October 2012
09:06 UTC |
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A new, 10-minute video from Michael at Vsauce highlights just how hot objects can become. In fact, this short presentation indicates the maximum temperature something can achieve within the current laws of physics, before becoming something else.
In fact, our current understanding of the laws of physics does not ex... |
2 October 2012
08:54 UTC |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that three new contracts have been awarded to corporations in the United States, all of them for the development of technologies related to the boosters that will power up NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).
The new grants total about $137.3 million,... |
2 October 2012
08:12 UTC |
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Yesterday, October 1, officials with the United States Postal Service (USPS) introduced a new series of stamps, featuring images of variety of landscapes throughout the country. Several of the new photos are in fact pictures collected from orbit by Landsat satellites.
The constellation is managed by NASA and the US... |
2 October 2012
07:40 UTC |
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Yesterday, October 1, engineers at the Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) rolled out the first stage of their new Antares delivery system, which will be used in conjunction with the Cygnus spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station under the terms of a NASA contract.
The first Antares mis... |
2 October 2012
06:57 UTC |
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Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry argue in a new study that teens who sleep less than 7 hour per night expose themselves to a higher risk of developing diabetes later on.
If the young adults – who usually only get 6 hours of sleep per night, on average – slept for at l... |
1 October 2012
15:25 UTC |
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Researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) found in a new study that the forests covering the southwestern parts of the country will experience the effects of global warming and climate change with more severity than other forests will.
Working together with colleagues at the University of Arizona ... |
1 October 2012
14:59 UTC |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that data relayed to Earth by the Venus Express orbiter point to the presence of an extremely-cold layer in the planet's upper atmosphere. Temperatures there may be low enough to allow for carbon dioxide (CO2) to freeze. This means that precipitations could exist... |
1 October 2012
14:20 UTC |
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Data sent back to Earth by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite have been confirmed yet again, this time by the Argo network of ocean drifters.
Though SMOS is the most advanced salinity-measuring spacecraft ever developed, experts on the ground are constantly cros... |
1 October 2012
13:29 UTC |
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The Martian crescent, in bright white, appears extremely clear in this February 2007 image collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft. This is the first-ever photograph of its kind to reveal the Red Planet in this manner.
It was collected during one of the four flybys that Rosetta had to... |
1 October 2012
12:58 UTC |
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The two new Galileo satellites the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch as part of its Galileo satellite navigation constellation are now fueled up, and ready to launch later this month.
Current plans call for the satellites, the third and fourth in the constellation, to blast off into space on October 12, f... |
1 October 2012
12:32 UTC |
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According to a team of experts at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a bacteria that causes the disease non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) was allowed to spread through sub-Saharan Africa by the ever-growing HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The bacteria was able to acquire a series of genes that enable it to remain invulnerable t... |
1 October 2012
11:54 UTC |
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Researchers at the Open University / Florida Institute of Technology say that they've recently uncovered evidence suggesting that the temperature swing patterns visible in the Atlantic Ocean have a direct influence on the climate of the western Amazonia.
Details of how this correlation works were published in t... |
1 October 2012
09:54 UTC |
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Millions of people use aspirin to reduce various types of pain every day. Studies conducted over the past few years have provided evidence that the drug may also prevent cancer, and experts are currently debating whether this positive correlation is strong enough.
Aspirin appears to be especially useful in preventin... |
1 October 2012
09:47 UTC |
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A group of scientists based at the Northwestern University, in the United States, recently shed more light on the mechanisms that the brain uses to obscure a lot of information from conscious perception.
It is important to note here that the study was conducted in order to understand how the brain solves very comple... |
1 October 2012
09:00 UTC |
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University of British Columbia (UBC) investigators say that fish living in the ocean will become smaller and smaller over the coming decades, as global warming and climate change continue to exert their widespread effects on the world.
Both oceanic and atmospheric systems are currently experiencing significant chan... |
1 October 2012
08:23 UTC |
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A group of researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital, in Oslo, announce the development of a new imaging method, which non-invasively studies the interstitial fluid pressure of solid tumors, helping doctors determine whether the cancer is aggressive or not.
This is all valuable information for experts trying to ... |
1 October 2012
07:55 UTC |
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Schizophrenia patients who display unstable levels of self-esteem are more likely to exhibit poorer responses to treatment than those who have more stable self-esteem. This may account for why some patients are more likely to commit suicide as well.
Broadly, schizophrenia can be described as a medical condition tha... |
29 September 2012
10:58 UTC |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that Edoardo Amaldi, the third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3), successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, September 28.
The maneuver was completed at 2144 GMT (23:44 CEST), and was coordinated from the Toulouse, France-based A... |
29 September 2012
10:37 UTC |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce that the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity will spend the next few weeks, or even months, analyzing a rocky formation called Matijevic Hill. Located on the rim of the 22-kilometers (14-mile) wide Endeavour Crater... |
29 September 2012
10:24 UTC |
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Current semiconductor manufacturing methods are not really very revealing, in the sense that experts instruct a machine to perform a series of operations, but they cannot intervene in the process to make adjustments. A new study by researchers in the United States now addresses this shortcoming. Thanks to this appr... |
29 September 2012
09:47 UTC |
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On September 27, the solar surface released a relatively small flare, which resulted in a medium-sized coronal mass ejection (CME). According to experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, the CME is not dangerous to Earth.
The events were detecte... |
29 September 2012
09:00 UTC |
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Determining which locations are appropriate for a specific type of crop, or if they are at all appropriate for growing crops, is the key to improving production and making the most out of a field. A number of satellites are helping farmers in the United States improve crop yields to their maximum potential.
NASA an... |
29 September 2012
08:50 UTC |
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The second half of Expedition 34 to the International Space Station (ISS), made up of three astronauts from two countries, is now ready for a planned launch to the orbital facility. The image above shows all three of them, on September 21.
The image was snapped after the crew finished two days of final qualificatio... |
29 September 2012
08:31 UTC |
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A new Ariane V heavy-lift delivery system took off from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, yesterday, September 28. This was the fifth mission carried out by such a rocket this year. The vehicle is built by French aerospace company Arianespace.
The Ariane V took off at 18:18 local time (2118 GMT ... |
29 September 2012
07:40 UTC |
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that four of the instruments aboard their newly-launched MetOp-B satellite have been turned on this week, and that the first science data are already pouring in.
The spacecraft was launched aboard a Russian-built Soyuz ST Fregat medium rocket from the Baikonur... |
28 September 2012
15:37 UTC |
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The learning mechanisms children are born with are very much similar to the scientific method of investigation, a new study has shown. Infants prefer to learn by proposing and testing hypotheses, learning from statistics, setting up and carrying out experiments, and through observing others' actions.
This is pr... |
28 September 2012
15:05 UTC |
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