MIT researchers have a new understanding of the process cells use to ensure that sperm and eggs begin life with exactly one copy of each chromosome -- a process that must be exquisitely regulated to prevent problems such as miscarriages and mental retardation.
Instead, of hunting for new torrents each week and firing up your bittorent client to download them, automate your downloads! Lifehacker shows you how to set up and automate BitTorrent downloads so that you can quit your weekly search for torrents.
Thanks to soaring oil prices and record earnings, global energy titan Exxon Mobil Corp. appears to be on track to amass a cash mountain even taller than Microsoft's. That would give Exxon, the world's biggest company by stock-market value, bragging rights to one of the largest cash piles at a nonfinancial company.
This article shows how you can test your Linux firewall with a tool called FTester (Firewall Tester). With FTester you can check your firewall's filtering policies. The tool consists of two perl scripts, a packet injector (ftest) and the listening sniffer (ftestd). Furthermore, FTester also provides Intrusion Detection System (IDS) capabilities.
Less than one month after insertion into orbit, and after sixteen loops around the planet Venus, ESAâ??s Venus Express spacecraft has reached its final operational orbit.
In March, an Audi won the Sebring 12-hour Âendurance race, four laps ahead of the gasoline-powered runner-up. This is the first time a diesel engine vehicle has triumphed in a major automobile endurance race. Diesels account for nearly half of all passenger cars sold in Europe but for only a fraction in the U.S.
