SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach
It was officially confirmed last week that U.S. military computers suffered the "most significant breach" ever in a 2008 episode, according to the New York Times. A foreign agent reportedly used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In other technology news, a new study suggests that even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change.
And technology is getting more people into trouble in U.S. national parks. Among other things, cell phones are giving wilderness visitors a false sense of security, namely that "they can do something stupid and be rescued," said a park spokeswoman.
At the American Chemical Society's meeting last week, researchers reported on a new blood-clotting hydrogel that may provide a cheap means of stopping blood flow from battlefield wounds or other injuries when there isn't time for stitches.
And National Geographic News featured a year-old venture capital firm that plans "to take the decades-old idea of generating electricity from captured heat and deploy it at massive scale on the cheap with a little help from nanotechnology and the semiconductor industry."
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