An Arizona State University program this semester will use veterans to archive digital archaeological data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The four veterans will train and work at ASU’s Center for Digital Antiquity, which houses the nation’s largest archive of digital archaeological data.
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ASU Taps Veterans To Archive For US’s Largest Digital Archaeology Database
A 200-mile lightning flash and another flash lasting nearly eight seconds have redefined experts’ notions of what is possible for such events.
The new data prompted a World Meteorological Organization committee to recommend revising the definition of lightning discharges.
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Record-Breaking Lightning Flashes Help Change Definition Of Lightning Events
The time to fix a security flaw is before it’s exploited — just ask the Clinton campaign or the World Anti-Doping Agency. So Arizona State University’s Paulo Shakarian tracks cyber threats to their origins: In the hard-to-access deep web and the secretive dark web.
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ASU Lab Tracking Cyber Threats On Deep Web, Dark Web
Scientists studying dwarf planet Ceres have found that a 13,000-foot volcano there arose not from silicic magma, but from muddy, salty ice that rose to the ~160 K surface and quick-froze like Smucker’s® Magic Shell.
Finding such a dramatic cryovolcanic process this close to the sun – in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – is unusual, and bolsters the idea that Ceres might have originated in the outer solar system. It also lends credence to the notion that asteroids and comets might be more closely related than once thought.
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13,000-Foot Mountain On Dwarf Planet Ceres May Be An Ice Volcano
Yep, after decades of false starts, it is now possible – for the few, the young and the obsessive – to make a living playing video games. Sprung from LAN party tournaments played for beer money stakes, eSports has today evolved into full-blown sporting franchise, complete with teams, groupies, college athletic programs, dedicated media, arena-filling crowds and tournament prize pools ballooning into the tens of millions of dollars.
For many, this development raises a number of questions. Are these really athletes? (Hint: the U.S. government thinks so.) Why was Amazon willing to pay almost a billion dollars for Twitch.tv? And, well, just how does professional gaming work?
