February 2007 in science

Events in Science and Technology

February 27, 2007

• The New Horizons spacecraft makes a flyby of the planet Jupiter on its way to Pluto. BBC News
• A hail storm damages the external tank of STS-117 while sitting on the launch pad, and will delay the launch by at least multiple weeks. (SpaceRef.com)

February 25, 2007

• The Rosetta spacecraft successfully swings by the planet Mars on its way to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (BBCNews)

February 23, 2007

• In a poster session at the Cosyne 07 academic conference, researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and the University of Nevada present a neural-level computer simulation of half a mouse brain at one tenth its normal speed; the massively parallel simulation, covering the equivalent of one second's brain activity, is run on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer with 4096 processors, each one having 256 MB of memory (for a total memory size of 1 TB). The presentation's title is "Towards real-time, mouse-scale cortical simulations". (BBC News) (NordicHardware.com)

February 11, 2007

• Researchers identify genetic clues to type 2 diabetes. (Boston Globe)

February 7, 2007

• ICANN reports that its root nameserver is under a massive denial-of-service attack from an unknown source. At the same time, servers managed by US Defense Department and UltraDNS are also being targeted. (BBCNews)

February 2, 2007

• An IPCC meeting at Paris, France, ends with a report that finds a probability of 90% or higher that human actions are creating a warming trend in the world's climate, causing global warming. (Reuters)

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