The Chinese Government scholarship gives Jackson the opportunity to immerse herself in the language for four to five years at any university in China. Jackson has chosen to study at Beijing Language and Culture University; … Read the rest here: Flagship student receives Chinese Government Scholarship « WKU News

The Crab Nebula is a pulsar wind nebula and a supernova remnant that was recorded by Chinese astronomers and Arab astronomers in 1054 AD with a luminosity about 75,000 times greater than that of the Sun in the constellation of… Original post:  Image of the Day: Monster at the Center of the Crab Nebula

A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by… See original here:  The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (3/22)

Mexico has joined China in banning hip US content, showing yet again how censorship standards work in countries outside the USA. Mexico has become the latest nation to pull a “South Park” episode from its airwaves, The Associated Press reported.  The episode, called “Pinewood Derby,” in which a traditional racing competition accidentally leads to the discovery of extraterrestrial life, caricatures numerous world leaders, including the British prime minister Gordon Brown, the Chinese president [...]

Home Computers Around the World Unite to Map the Milky Way Enthusiastic and inquisitive volunteers from Africa to Australia are donating the computing power of everything from decade-old desktops to sleek new netbooks to help computer scientists and astronomers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute map the shape of our Milky Way galaxy. Now, just this month, the collected computing power of these humble home computers has surpassed one petaflop, a computing speed that surpasses the world’s second [...]

China Imitates YouTube In this photo taken on Monday, Jan. See original here:  The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (1/29)

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The new Herschel Space Observatory has scored a major new milestone in its mission to discover how early galaxies formed and evolved to give rise to present-day galaxies like our own, he said. Original post:  Panorama of New Galaxies in the Early Universe Discovered

The awesomeness of our species is exemplified in our attitudes to artificial intelligence:  we really want to build something beyond ourselves, despite how it would create an awareness utterly alien to our own, and even those who campaign against evil AIs for fear of planet-scouring SKYNETs don’t doubt for a second that some mad programmer  will build one.  There’s no better compliment for a tool-using species. Some say that we’ve already invented artificial life, with computer [...]