Wii U, the 'negative impact' of Nintendo - The Mundo.es

Due to the “negative impact” of its new Wii U, despite the efforts that has not taken off, Nintendo recorded during the first half of the Japanese fiscal year, from April to September, net profit 600 million yen (4.4 million euros) .

However, this slight profitability allowed the video game giant return to the path of profits after net loss of 27.996 million yen (207 million euros) recorded in the same period of 2012.

“ Wii U (which was released in late 2012) still results in a negative impact on the benefits from Nintendo , mainly due to the price cut in the U.S. and Europe,” explained Kyoto company (central Japan) in a statement.

Despite the recent price cut has boosted sales from April to September company has sold just 460,000 units Wii U , less even than its predecessor Wii, which sold 470,000 units and now totals more than 100 million worldwide.

addition, Nintendo attributed in part to increased spending on advertising campaigns console operating loss of 23.278 million yen (172.4 million euros) recorded in the first six months of the fiscal year.

Results discrete when taking into account that the creator of myths as ‘Super Mario Bros’ or ‘Zelda’ has benefited in this period of strong and continued depreciation of the yen , a factor input has allowed 18,300 billion yen (135 million euros) more than in the same period of 2012.

However, falling yen or saved the video game company to reduce its sales revenue by 2.2% yoy in April-September up to 196,582,000 yen (1.456 billion euros).

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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata , admitted after presenting the results that his new bet for the moment is not selling what they expected, but is convinced that he can “change the situation” of face the Christmas season with new accessories and games.

Nintendo The aim is still to sell a total of 9 million Wii U during this fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2014, although so far placed only 3.91 million at Christmas and have a great obstacle, the expected launch of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

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While on the other side of the coin, the Japanese company continues to dominate the market for the Nintendo 3DS handheld, a product which recently joined him 2DS version, cheaper, no screens or three-dimensional folding .

In the first six months of the fiscal year, managed to sell 3.89 million consoles portable, which already has nearly 35 million, thanks to the efforts of titles like “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” that have sold since June 2.49 million cartridges.

Still, Nintendo maintained its optimism for the fiscal year, leaving intact its profit forecast for 2013, year in which it expects to earn 55,000 billion yen (407 million euros), almost seven times more than in 2012 .

also expects to achieve an operating profit of 100,000 million yen (740.7 million euros) and increase its sales by 44.8% year on year to 920,000 million yen (6.815 million euros).

Again, Nintendo entrust their fate to chubby plumber Mario, who released soon adventure ‘Super Mario 3D World’ , as a spur to revolutionize the sales of Wii U, waiting for users opt for their beloved characters of the unstoppable advent of Sony and Microsoft.

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Next ‘smartphone’ Apple, ie the new iPhone 6, could have a 5 inch screen LG. This was revealed through a leak from the Japanese Mac fan and has collected Cult of Mac

According to this information, the iPhone 6 come in the month of September 2014 and with a screen larger than 4 inches of his predecessors, as a strategy to compete with other phones. Thus, the iPhone 6 with a 5-inch screen and 1920×1080 resolution and 400 pixels per inch would result in a format very similar to Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Z1 and HTC Xperia Butterfly.

addition, another feature in which Apple could be working for his next ‘smartphone’ would be to reduce the maximum handset margins. In this way, the screen does not imply increased significantly increased cell size.

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So is the iPad Air, lighter and more powerful - The Mundo.es

During the last week I tried the new Apple iPad Air. The tablet, which goes on sale this Friday, November 1, it has earned the name whim of Cupertino. It is considerably lighter than the previous model and the first full-size iPad can be held comfortably for long periods of time with one hand.

a device designed to carry around 200 grams are a considerable difference but also the Air is tablet more powerful ARM architecture that has passed through my hands, thanks in large part to the A7 processor. His speed is amazing, even in complex tasks, and about the tablet a step closer to the ability of a conventional computer.

Design

new dimensions and weight are are certainly the protagonists in the new device. For the first time since the introduction of the iPad in 2010, Apple has decided to change the front design and has led to the same lines that debuted late last year with the iPad Mini. Instead of symmetrical frames the sides are much thinner. This makes the device a bit narrower keeping the same screen size.

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size battery and internal components make the iPad Air is the full size (9.7 inch screen) lighter so far. WiFi version weighs 450 grams , 200 less than the previous model weighed (4th generation iPad). The LTE connection version weighs 480 grams, 180 less than the equivalent model 4th generation.

less than half kilo in weight and thinner than 8 mm , the iPad Air is the first iPad that can be held with one hand comfortably for long periods of time . To hold, it is possible that part of the thumb is on the edge of the screen but the operating system is equipped with the same detection algorithm that the iPad Mini and not register the finger at rest as a valid pulse.

Apple goes further and claims to be the “full size tablet world’s lightest”. The problem is that the variety of screen sizes makes comparison difficult. HDX Amazon Kindle Fire, for example, weighs only 345 gram s, but has an inch less than this iPad and in 16:9 instead of 4:3 , which results in a smaller display surface. Still, the new iPad is clearly a big step as far as mobility is concerned.

Power

The heart of this tablet is the same processor that gives life to A7 iPhone 5s. According to the company is twice as fast and has twice the processor graphics capabilities present in the previous generation.

test I made (Linpack, Geekbench, etc …) seem to support this claim, but to the end user that throw numbers such tests have no significant value beyond giving comparative numbers.

Overall, the iPad Air is the tablet I’ve tested this year that has come closest to experience traditional sailing from my computer. The most advanced web pages loaded with much more ease and also games and applications respond much better than the 4th generation ipad. But we are approaching limits as to where is difficult to assess this added power, unless specific applications go to multimedia editing or design.

As I said in the analysis of the iPhone 5s A7 processor (1.4 GHz in this case) is the first ARM architecture to achieve the 64 bits. The biggest advantage of this architecture is to support a greater number of mobile platforms memory but rarely exceed 2 GB and therefore can not take advantage of this option. Thanks to greater control over the software and hardware , Apple can afford to use less memory and maintain performance. The iPad Air, for example, has only 1 GB of RAM but moves with more ease than other tablets that double this amount.

Still, there are obvious advantages in changing architecture, instruction set as a new and more efficient for the processor. iOS7 and official Apple applications are already adapted to 64-bit processor.

Software

It is no coincidence that the launch of this new tablet comes with a complete renovation of the official Apple applications both for office and multimedia editing. The Air is the perfect machine to demonstrate the new capabilities of these programs and Apple is making a major effort to bury the myth tablet consumer as an exclusive tool, not content creation (one good Post on this topic , in English, on the blog of Ben Thompson).

new iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand fly over this device and with the addition of free tools iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) the iPad out of the box almost ready for the most common tasks that are performed a computer nowadays. still too early to know whether the company’s strategy will succeed or if the PC will get to keep his role in the home in successive generations.

Keep in mind also that Apple has now greater tufted in high . The company has lost market share in the tablet market during the last year. Until now it was because seven-inch models equipped with Android operating system with a price considerably less than the iPad but in the latter year Microsoft has begun an aggressive promotional campaign for your product Surface, which positions as a tablet “without compromise”, with access to Office tools and operating environment closer to that of conventional PCs.

Other Considerations

new iPad cameras have a resolution similar to the previous model but have improved somewhat in clarity and definition. In the case of the front camera is thanks to a larger sensor. In the case of rear five megapixel, thanks to higher quality lenses. It always amazes me to see tablet users take photos on mobile devices-often better choice for these applications, but each time it seems more common behavior.

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As evident the new design makes covers, covers and other accessories are no longer compatible with the device. Apple usually keeps the designs for two generations. In this case have been three (iPad 2, New iPad and iPad 4th generation) due to the rapid succession between the two latest models of that list. Still, it is important to consider.

In my case, for example, one of the accessories that I use is the cover with integrated keyboard from Logitech. Although the Bluetooth keyboard works seamlessly with the iPad Air, the new display format and make thinner device can not be stably support or close properly. Logitech has announced new cover compatible models coming to market in the coming days.

iPad Air

also introduces support for WiFi MIMO, which makes use of the two antennas on the device to transmit data at twice the speed. This feature was present in other tablets on the market, such as Microsoft Surface, but the first time you get to the iPad. The model with free LTE now supports many more bands and is universal for all operators.

Apple estimates autonomy

iPad in about 10 hours of typical use, as in previous models. In my case I have noticed no difference in consumption between the 4th generation iPad and iPad Air.

Apple has not included the fingerprint reader TouchID present in the iPhone 5s, either for lack of production capacity or as a way to differentiate product ranges. ‘s a shame. The function would have been really useful on the tablet, especially in the business world where tablets are increasingly present.

Between Air and Mini

iPad catalog had remained as before the iPad Air would certainly the most desirable option for those not wanting to sacrifice power. On this occasion, however, the iPad Mini has grown to feature-parity with the iPad Air , including the retina display with the same resolution of 2,048 x 1,536 pixels.

iPad Mini

??not hit the market until mid-November, but will have a lower price (about 90 euros cheaper) and a number of features that may be more palatable to some users. The screen is smaller (7.9 inches) but instead is much lighter and comfortable to hold. I’ve only been able to use the Mini with retina display briefly after the presentation last week.

extra screen area of ??iPad Air, however, is appreciated when surfing the net or using design programs or photo retouching and reduced weight helps trim the big difference that previously existed among both product families.

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iPad goes on sale for 479 euros in the basic version with WiFi and 16 GB of memory but can be configured with 32, 64 and 128 GB. Add LTE connection will cost 120 euros. Prices include VAT.

iPad Air, lighter and more powerful - The País.com (Spain)

seems an iPad Mini with a screen much more generous. The iPad has changed inside and out. The fifth generation of the Apple tablet, called the iPad Air, has renewed the chassis and less wasted space. It keeps the screen size (9.7 inches), but the side frame is smaller. Also lost thickness. Good news for those who are decided by the unit, but must take into account the renewal of bags and accessories. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, insisted during the presentation last Tuesday: “The best design is one that is not perceived.”

170 million iPads later, Apple has made a slimming star with your device. It is within half a kilo (478 grams). Taking it in the hands you have the feeling that you are using a notebook, a notebook. The purchase decision between an iPad Mini, which will soon have high-definition screen, and older brother, is more difficult.

Both will share processor (A7), the same as the iPhone 5S. This is their great potential. The fluidity was the hallmark of previous models, but with the 64-bit chip the border between computer and tablet is increasingly blurred.

iPad Air shines when opening Garage Band, audio editing application that incorporates free. You can play the drums, a piano or guitar chords. If desired, add a vocal track with built-in microphone or an external one. Then mix and match tracks to get a result as bright as the taste and ability of each person to give him.

With the 64-bit chip the border between computer and tablet is increasingly blurred

The case of iMovie, the video editor, is even more striking. Simply choose any of the styles of film or even a trailer with default script to obtain, with a handful of shots and some imagination, a surprising result. The encoding of a movie less than five minutes just have delay, even in high definition.

And yes, now when say 10 hours of life, 10 hours of use are packed. The

Three new species discovered in Australia - BBC

enconde The gecko is on the rocks during the day and comes out at night to hunt insects and spiders.

An expedition in Australia discovered three species not recorded by science so far in an isolated area northwest of the country.

are a gecko species with leaf-shaped tail (Saltuarius eximius) , a small lizard golden (Saproscincus saltus) and a frog that lays its eggs in the wet rock crevices (Cophixalus petrophilus) .

The expedition was conducted jointly by the James Cook University and National Geographic in Cape Melville mountain.

“The discovery of three new and obviously different vertebrate species can be surprising in places like New Guinea poorly explored, but even more so in Australia, a country which we believe has already been explored in depth,” said one researchers, Conrad Hoskin, James Cook University.

Cape Melville mountain range in the Australian state of Queensland, and is part of a national park, comprises ancient rocks gigantic black granite, some the size of houses.

is remote areas that have been isolated for millions of years, which has allowed some species “evolve in other different species that are unique in rocky habitat,” said Hoskin.

Planck probe has helped to better understand the 13,800 ... - Reuters

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has highlighted the achievements of the Planck probe since its launch in 2009, until this week, when it terminated its mission. It has pointed out that Planck has helped better understand the history of the Universe, from a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, through the evolution of stars and galaxies along the 13,800 million years with the cosmos .

The satellite has passed 4.5 years observing the sky to study cosmic matter how it evolved over time. On Saturday the ESA extinguished its Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), who had completed his scientific observations on day October 3, while the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) had completed its mission in January 2012, following five full-sky observations in parallel with LFI.

Finally, the apparatus was ending its activity last Wednesday, October 23, after completing a series of operational protocols.

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Earlier this year, scientists working with data from Planck presented the most accurate picture of the cosmic microwave background (CMB, for its acronym in English), the remains of the radiation from the Big Bang which were recorded in the sky when the Universe was only 380,000 years.

CMB signal is the most accurate picture of the distribution of mass in the early universe. It can detect lower temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions in the beginning, had slightly different densities and which constitute the seeds of all structures, stars and galaxies we see today.

“Planck has provided full-sky image of the CMB signal more accurate than ever, with which we can test a variety of models on the origin and evolution of the cosmos,” said one of the responsible for the mission, Jan Tauber.

“Before you can start using this valuable cosmological information, had to separate the CMB signal emissions of all matter that is in the foreground, in our own galaxy and in other galaxies and galaxy clusters, a job really careful, “he added.

As a result, Planck has performed the most comprehensive catalog to date of the main galaxy clusters, the largest blocks of the Universe. Planck has also identified more dense clumps of matter in our galaxy and cold, cold matter pools from which new stars may form in the future.

However, these are just two examples of the wide variety of issues that the Planck data file is helping to solve.

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beyond the Milky Way and through cosmic history, Planck has redefined the relative proportions of the ingredients that make up the universe. The conventional materials, which are formed the stars and galaxies, is just 4.9% of the total density of mass / energy of the Universe.

dark matter, which until now has only been detected indirectly through its gravitational interaction with galaxies or clusters of galaxies, is 26.8%, more than you initially thought. On the other hand, dark energy, the mysterious force responsible for accelerating the expansion of the universe, representing 68.3%, less than expected.

These data also provide a new figure to define the age of the Universe: 13,800 million years. Over these millions of years, the light from the Big Bang that sailed through the universe to reach Earth met and interacted with the cosmic structures that were forming at the time. One type of interaction is what causes gravitational lensing, the deflection of light by massive objects such as galaxy clusters.

Like rays bend and distort light passing through a glass lens, the photons of the CMB signal deflected by gravitational lenses introduce small distortions on the background pattern of the CMB. Astronomers were able to draw a map of this effect over the entire sky from Planck data, providing a new method to study the evolution of structure in the universe over time.

These data also helped to better understand the formation of cosmic matter. When photons of the CMB signal are caught with the hot gas in galaxy clusters, its energy is altered in a characteristic way that allows astronomers to identify the position of these large structures.

This method also can detect the faint gas filaments that could connect different clusters together.

In the early universe, the sky was covered by a network of filaments of gaseous matter, in which nodes denser began to form clusters of galaxies. Have not yet been able to observe these faint filaments of gas, but cosmologists expect to find between the interacting galaxy clusters, where the filaments are compressed and heated, making them easier to detect.

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Until now the main objective of the mission was the preparation of more detailed map of the CMB signal. From now, cosmologists are trying to go back even further in time to study the first moments of existence of the universe. It is thought that a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang the universe underwent a rapid expansion called inflation.

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during inflation, quantum fluctuations could have produced a sea of ??gravitational waves that would have been recorded in a CMB signal component that is polarized – light as we see with polarized glasses.

If we can detect this component of the CMB, we could confirm the hypothesis of inflation, but this first cosmologists will have to further filter interference foreground sources, among which are found the polarized emission from our own galaxy.

“We could not be more pleased with the performance of Planck and the results it has brought so far.’re eager to see what we will have polarization data. Next year will be very exciting,” he noted Tauber.

IPhone 5s arrives, a computer with smartphone body - Five Days

About 600 people lined up this Friday at 8 am at the Apple store on Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona. With a goal: to be one of the first to buy one of the new iPhone from Apple company, the powerful and colorful 5c 5s. Long queues were repeated in multiple parts of the country, as the stores that the firm has in Valencia (dozens of people waited in establishing Colon Street) or Madrid, where the Apple store in South Park when it opened there were 200 people waiting.

The rain did not stop those who wanted to get one of the two new smartphones from Apple. Neither the price, and that the most advanced model, the iPhone 5s, costs 699 euros in 16-gigabyte version, 799 euros for the 32 and 899 euros for the 64 gig. For its part, the 5c worth 599 euros in 16-gigabyte version and 699 euros, the 32. Although no official data, most customers seem to have been inclined by the most advanced model, the 5s, and many fans of Apple products were seeking gold version, the same that had been depleted in some countries where the terminals had released a month earlier.

anticipation surrounding the new iPhone from Apple is repeated once more, especially among the faithful of the most valuable brand in the world. But what is so attractive both teams? The iPhone 5s, the most advanced, keeps the design of the iPhone 5 (the screen is still 4 inches, although the trend is to go to larger sizes, and its resolution is 1136×640 pixels), so yes, comes in new colors : silver, gold and gray space. But the big news is its processor.

is the first smartphone in the world with a 64-bit. The A7, as it is called, offers twice the power than the A6 carrying the iPhone 5, and without increasing battery consumption. The new smartphone from Apple shows how the mobile world follows the same steps as the computers, which also gave long ago the jump from 32 to 64 bits, allowing the use of applications and services that exploit massive computing capabilities and information management.

Although still have to wait to see applications that exploit the capabilities of the iPhone 5s processor, the terminal and suggests some interesting developments. For example, the 8-megapixel rear camera, like the iPhone 5 but with enhanced optical sensor, allowing continuous shooting 10 frames per second, and then offer the best. You can also capture videos at high speed (120 frames per second) for video slowed. The iPhone 5s incorporates an interface that makes it easy to edit these videos so that you can create by mixing sequences fragments in slow motion and normal speed.

Best Camera , increased security

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camera also includes the first flash with two LEDs, one cold and one warm color to get the best shot possible. It also carries a motion processor, the M7, which frees the central brain of certain tasks as they do attend the gyroscope, accelerometer and compass of the phone, which is important to exploit health and fitness applications. All to save battery.

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Another novelty is its fingerprint reader, hidden behind the start button. This takes a picture of the fingerprint and compares it to the registered finger, for added security. The computer stops register up to five fingers, the same person or several.

color model grounded through 5c

Apple also went on sale Friday in Spain your iPhone 5c, the first of the firm that comes in colors. The novelty attracted the attention of people who approached Apple stores and other shopping centers offering the product, but its bright colors (pink, green, blue or yellow) were not enough to beat the interest to buy the model advanced. The only difference of 100 euros between the two seems to have been decisive, detailed as some customers that were made with the model in the store golden South Park.

iPhone 5c is almost a carbon copy of the previous iPhone 5, although it is optimized to consume less. Furthermore, its front camera for video calls is improved pueslleva the same as its big brother, the 5s.

However, the new iPhone will cause a stir in the mobile market. Cash Converters, specializes in buying and selling second hand, ensures that the arrival of a new Apple mobile “can be the best time to sell your old smartphone and get the latest model.” The company says that in his more than 85 shops you can buy an iPhone 5 from 449 euros. Apple also maintains market iPhone 4s for $ 399.

Windows XP will not support in April 2014, a risk to ... - 20minutos.es

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Windows XP has been one of the most widely used operating systems in the world, but the new releases from Microsoft cause, as with previous OS company that XP ‘die’ definitely .

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next April 8, 2014 , Microsoft will no longer support the latest operating system Windows XP, the XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). This is not supposed to launch security updates, patches or bug fixes that system, and no support will be offered with all the security risks that entails. The solution is, as explained from Consumer , to upgrade the computers to a newer version, including Windows 8 operating system and office suite Office 2013. And Microsoft also stop supporting Microsoft Office 2003 , one of the most popular office software users.

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Windows XP

still retains more than 30% of the market for desktop operating systems Windows XP was sold by Microsoft in first version in 2001. The Service Pack 3 was released in 2008 as a set of improvements and new features added to previous versions of XP. Despite being a product with more than 12 years old, according to the consulting firm Net Market Share September 2013, Windows XP still has over 30% market of desktop operating systems , above others like Microsoft Windows 8 (8.02%) or Mac OS X 10.8 (3.69%). Only been superseded by Windows 7, with a 46.39% market share.

In terms of users and licenses, this ratio means that the Windows XP operating system is present at about 500 million computers around the world, from household appliances to computers to small and medium businesses . This permanence is due both to economic reasons, and the quality of this version of Windows against some of its successors.

gradually, Microsoft has dropped support for Windows XP versions in the past, to force the change of both equipment and licenses. Thus, in 2006 he stopped with version Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and in 2010 with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

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not prepared to face this new ecosystem formats, social networks or applications in the “cloud” On this occasion, with Service Pack 3, Microsoft has created a website to explain the reason for the end of support to one of their most popular operating systems. According to the American company, the lifecycle supports its products is a maximum of 10 years : five years of mainstream support and extended support five.

addition, Microsoft argues, rightly, that many of the information technologies that are used today were not produced in the last decade. For this reason, Windows XP not ready to meet this new ecosystem of formats, social networks or applications in the “cloud”.

The end of support for Windows XP SP3 means that after the announced date, Microsoft will no longer release security updates, patches or bug fixes system nor provide technical support (free or not for a fee) through of its customer channels. Therefore, the main recommendation is Microsoft users upgrade their computers to a newer version, including the operating system Windows 8 and office suite Office 2013 .

“Xpocalypse”

The main problem for users and companies who are still using Windows XP on their computers is that the risk from increasing threats . Also, because of this lack of protection and the high number of computers running Windows XP, the operating system will be the focus of cybercriminal gangs who seek new vulnerabilities to gain remote control of the computer and have access to confidential information and user credentials.

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Rain, Microsoft security engineer, writes in detail in the Microsoft Security blog about risks continue using Windows XP after April 2014. Basically, concludes that cybercriminals try to detect security holes in Windows XP, for which vulnerabilities are discovered based on later versions of the Windows operating system and which were not corrected for Windows XP.

A computer with Windows XP will be exposed to all kinds of intrusions and some analysts believe the problem created by this lack of support will be of great proportions, as affect millions of computers around the world. In fact, this event has been dubbed as “Xpocalypse”.

not all users can perform this update. Many can not or will not buy the new computer would need to install Windows 8 or Windows XP is considered enough to serve everyday tasks they perform. At the same time, it is estimated that cybercriminals have today with vunerabilidades discovered in XP , but still not used to waiting for Microsoft to stop support the operating system and, thus, can massively use them without Microsoft do something about it.

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Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) have developed a new catalyst to produce hydrogen clean, renewable and profitable from the water and sun.

research results that have been published in the journal ‘Scientific Reports ‘, opening the door to renewable hydrogen production, must, according to the UPC, so that it becomes the energy of the future.

The invention has been the work of researchers of the Institute of Energy Technology (INTE) of the UPC, University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia).

Scientists have fused

optical properties of three-dimensional photonic crystals (inverse opals titanium oxide, TiO2) and gold nanoparticles 2-3 nanometers for develop a highly active catalyst in powder .

As reported

UPC this new photocatalyst produces more hydrogen than hitherto developed because the process takes advantage of the properties of the photonic crystals and the properties of nanoparticles of a metal.

is “put in line” both materials so that the effect is amplified, explained in a statement INTE researcher Jordi Llorca.
any fact-based photocatalyst gold nanoparticles and titanium oxide crystals with ultraviolet light, the light excites the electrons of TiO2 and injected into the conduction band, while leaving the other side hole.

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news is, scientists use a 3D photonic crystal that retains the visible part of the solar spectrum, so that you can take advantage of not only the ultraviolet part of the solar spectrum, but also the visible, which is the majority , which process performance increases considerably .

According to the inventors, the new catalyst has great potential for application in industrial processes.

Making the move from the laboratory to an industrial plant would, according Llorca, design a reactor to operate outdoors with the sun using a collector Solar (to get more sunlight) .

Currently, a production plant conventional hydrogen from natural gas produces about 300 tons of hydrogen a day and with the new catalyst developed at the UPC, the Researchers have achieved 0.025 liters of hydrogen in just one hour with one gram of catalyst.

arranging eight hours of sun a day, scientists estimate that it would take an area of ??10 by 10 kilometers to produce hydrogen on an industrial scale.

Unlike conventional plants that run on fossil fuels and 800 degrees Celsius, the new hydrogen production system is clean and renewable, as the photochemical process occurs at room temperature and without cost, and energy used sun and water, so that energy and environmental gains are considerable, highlighted the UPC.

The researchers explain that have overcome the target of 5% in the conversion of solar energy into hydrogen at room temperature, which is the threshold at which this technology is considered feasible.

François Englert: 'I like to call' God particle 'because ... - La Opinión A Coruña

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Take itemprop=”articleBody”> and gesture impressed the great find has the surname of the other winner, Peter Higgs, who shares both the Prince of Asturias Award, which collected on Friday, as the Nobel receive in December. François Englert stresses that these sorely missed days at another architect of great progress, the New Yorker Robert Brout Belgian citizen, who died in 2011, who investigated for many years and who joined him bonds of deep friendship.

itemprop=”articleBody”>-For starters, a challenge that so far very few, perhaps no one has been able to overcome. Can you explain in a minute what is the Higgs boson?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-The Higgs boson is a particle that detects a mechanism, which is the Brout or BEH mechanism (Brout-Englert-Higgs). And that mechanism is going to give mass to elementary particles. And, for reasons too complicated to explain here, to understand the existence of forces at close range inside the nucleus of atoms. The essence of this mechanism that brings to light boson is the existence of a kind of condensation of field that is present throughout the universe, and that field is what gives these properties of the origin of mass and the transformation of some forces acting at a great distance but here act at very close range. It’s very complicated. The Higgs is something that is removed from the field, of that fluid, so you can check all the underlying theory that has been developed by Brout and me, and independently by Higgs in 1964.

itemprop=”articleBody”>-One minute and 37 seconds: it’s not bad. But the Higgs is a real effect or a symptom?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-not a symptom or effect. It is a particle that checks, verifies the validity of a theory that explains many things, including the origin of mass, and the nature of the forces.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Is not it strange take 50 years to see recognized his discovery of the Higgs?

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itemprop=”articleBody”> – (Laughter) My artistic qualities are negligible, which not dream of comparing myself to Van Gogh. Fortunately, doctors have managed to stay alive.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Why it is called the Higgs boson? Is it just the name? Do you like?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-The proper name is not exactly, but in any case not very important. What is a shame is that the name has been used for attribute Higgs boson very general properties which are not really his. For example, we often read in the press that the Higgs mass attributed to particles, and that’s not true. Now that’s unfortunate. No mass attributed not given mass, is the condensation of bosons in this field that is present throughout the universe that gives the dough. The particle only serves to detect the field, but in itself, per se, does not confer mass, mass does not. But back to the matter of the name, I do not mind being called Higgs boson.

itemprop=”articleBody”>-Because his relationship with Peter Higgs is good, right?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-I have known him not long ago, but we’ve seen at CERN on July 4, 2012 and our relations are good, and I was surprised that he had another opinion. It you ask when you want. But be careful. Do not annoy people. Where I do insist on is that we must not attribute to the particle properties that are much larger than real.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Did you feel more emotion when he discovered the Higgs half century ago or last year when CERN empirically confirmed its existence?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-Somehow, we discovered not only the Higgs, but the whole theory behind the Higgs, we had the feeling of having made a great discovery, and widely celebrated Robert Brout and me. Brout died two years ago and kept him very close cooperation and friendly. I remember we had a champagne to celebrate. We did not know if he would then be able to demonstrate, but we knew it was something important.

itemprop=”articleBody”>-That day when he got home, after drinking the champagne, he explained how his family?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-Physics is a very difficult to explain, and we see in the press at times.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Should I be married to a physical specialist to not feel misunderstood?

itemprop=”articleBody”> ‘My wife is not a specialist in physics. I think not.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Does the methodology fully successful CERN has used in his experiment?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-Sure. Clearly.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – What is the present or future value of this finding?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-world knowledge, understanding of things. It is not necessarily to find a brand new toothbrush or something concrete. Is a more general purpose. It is a basic human company: knowing where it comes from humanity, what happens and how it happens.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Is the Higgs discovery of the proudest feels or has made others who have had less impact but seem most deserving?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-There are things from which I have done that I am proud, and especially those that have made Brout that seem as important as this. And it was the opinion he had Brout about it, but it may be too early to tell if we were right, because, as you said, it takes 50 years.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – do you think that is called the boson “God particle”?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-It seems a shame because God has nothing to do with this. Whether or not, God has nothing to do with the development of science.

itemprop=”articleBody”> – Do you believe in God?

itemprop=”articleBody”>-No. To better answer would say there are a lot of things I do not understand but, well, not worth a.

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Three out of four children of thirteen Spanish has mobile - La Voz de Galicia

The use of technology is linked to youth and childhood. According to the INE survey on equipment and use of ICT (information and tecnlogías communication), Internet is a very common from ten. Nine out of ten children of that age have a computer and Internet use, this pattern is maintained, up very slightly, gradually until age 15, 97% have a computer and 94% connect to the Web

Another thing is the phones. Finally, at age fifteen have almost all (90.2%) but the jump would get with eleven to twelve years old, when they start in ESO. The figures are very indicative: at 10, only a few use the phone (26%), at 11 is being introduced (41) and 12 extends between the majority (58.9%). From there the increase is staggered: 13 years (75.8), 14 years (84.4) and 15 years (90.2%).

If when having a computer or Internet connection there is little difference between boys and girls (they have more, but only two points, 94 to 96%), mobile within the distance is enormous. Thus, in the group of 10-15 years, 67% of girls use cell compared to 59% of children. The ease to socialize women and their need to communicate explain why the teen bum phones is more related to the female gender.

The INE survey also adult speech. In that sense, in Spain Internet and computers are common (more than 72% between 16 and 74 years used) and the mobile phone has become an indispensable tool for all (94% is handled). Some 13 million Spanish (37%) have purchased a good or service on the Internet some time in their life.

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Madrid, October 26. – The 92.7% of ten year olds use computers and 86.6% access the Internet, suggesting that both practices, especially the first, are the majority in earlier ages, while mobile usage is widespread after age 13.

The proportion of use of information technology and communication for children of 10-15 years is generally very high: computer usage is almost universal (95.2%), 91.8% use the internet and 63% have a mobile phone, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).

“Teens are online and that can bring many advantages from the point of view of access to knowledge, capacity building, opportunities for interaction and global participation,” said Efe director of legal and social network privacy Tuenti , Oscar Casado.

also responsible for contents and Cybersecurity Research at the National Institute of Communication Technologies (Inteco), Deepak Daswani, have a positive opinion of these statistics, “used to confirm that the population grows at the rate of technology” .

These children, known as digital natives, “are able to handle the technology, digital devices, both computers and mobile devices, sometimes much better and more knowledgeable than their parents,” he says.

“not only handle user level devices, but in many cases learn about interconnect devices, networks, ports and such technical issues, many of them, for example, because frequent online games through consoles such as Playstation or Xbox, “he explains.

But remember Daswani, the high use of technology by children makes them more exposed to the dangers of the network, and often given their ingenuity, and their lack of knowledge in some mischief or aspects, making them an easy target for attackers.

In this context stresses the network crimes that are directly associated with children, such as “grooming” (child sexual harassment conducted by an adult on a minor offender), “cyberbullying” (Cyberbullying among children using digital media for it) or “sexting” (sending erotic or pornographic content through mobile phones).

legal director Privacy and social network Tuenti, of what it “is involved in the safest way possible,” making some initiatives of their social network in that direction, such as turning the highest privacy settings on profiles, not indexed in search engines such profiles Google , not market encrypt data with third and chat conversations.

“In any case, we believe that the best tool is prevention and control education from an early age,” he concludes.

computer and internet use increases between 10 and 15 years to reach 97 and 94% in this last age, respectively.

More significant, however, is the evolution of the mobile phones available: if the 26.1% of 10 year olds have one of these devices, that percentage increases to 41.6% in 11 years , up to 58.8% with 12 years, to 75.8% in 13 years and even 14 years 84.4%.

15 years, nine out of ten children now have mobile, according to the survey of equipment and use of information and communication technologies in homes, prepared by the INE.

sex differences in the use of computer and internet are not very significant, though, in both cases, the girls are above the boys.

The differences are most evident in the case of the availability of mobile phone: 67.4% of girls aged 10 to 15 years have one, compared to 58.8% of children.

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A successful Prince of Asturias Award for Research - The País.com (Spain)

The discovery of the Higgs boson in the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC in July 2012 will be remembered as one of the milestones in particle physics. This has been recognized, quite rightly, the award of this year’s Prince of Asturias Peter Higgs, Francois Englert, and CERN. Proof of this is that no one in the scientific community was surprised when later this year it was announced that the Nobel Prize would also Englert and Higgs. All these awards should be considered a thrilling climax to a story deserved that lasted nearly 50 years. What happened 50 years ago?

seeking possible explanations that allow understand why some particles, such as intermediate bosons of the weak interactions (the W’sy Z) have mass while others do not, as was the case of the photon, particle mediates electromagnetic interactions, three important scientific papers were published in 1964, shaping a theoretical proposal particularly elegant and witty. The authors of the first of three works were Robert Brout (who died in 2011) and Francois Englert, and almost simultaneously published the second being its author Peter Higgs. Although the conceptual idea was the same in both works, the proposed mechanism as it came to be known Higgs mechanism. And it was Peter Higgs who explicitly mentioned in their work that the mechanism implied the existence of a new particle, as always, has been known as “Higgs boson.” Soon after, also in 1964, published the third work, proposing the same idea, and the authors were Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble. All indications are that they had reached the same conclusion as Brout, Englert and Higgs independently.

Higgs mechanism allows us to understand what is known as “spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry” and also why particles have mass. A great step forward in our understanding of elementary particles and their interactions, and a cornerstone of what is now known as the Standard Model. The Standard Model is our bible when describing any process we want to study particle physics. And it is our calculation tool in making predictions which can then experimentally verified. Every experimental measurement has been done since the 60s has not only confirmed that the proposed company Peter Higgs and works extremely well. It’s really fascinating intellectual achievement of having been able to imagine something that explains things so complex Why wait’ve missed it so many years to give deserved awards to these theoretical physicists?

is the standard by which we live by the scientists. How beautiful and elegant it is a proposal, you must have a complete and rigorous experimental validation before being elevated to the status of theory. All predictions must be verified. Meanwhile we can only speak of “models”. Is the experiment has the last word, and who must make the final quality seal. And the Standard Model was missing to validate a prediction: the existence of the Higgs boson. This last ingredient has been extraordinarily difficult to confirm, despite the effort that has been made for decades by the experimental physics community. It was necessary to build a machine like the LHC so extraordinary, and some as huge and complex detectors like ATLAS and CMS. And it has been made possible by a laboratory like CERN, and a scientific community that has shown up where you can get to work in teams and in a global project. As stated to the jury that awarded the prize, “the discovery of the Higgs boson is a prime example of how Europe has led a collective effort to solve one of the deepest mysteries of physics”. That’s why it seems especially fitting that the Prince of Asturias included among the winners at CERN.

But the important thing today is that the effort has been worthwhile. Many are those who may feel proud to have contributed. And among them there are also scientific and technical Spanish. Our entire community welcomes the award given to Peter Higgs, Francois Englert and CERN. It is certainly well deserved. Today we know that the Higgs boson is more than a brilliant theoretical physicists proposed. We have ample evidence of its existence, and measure their properties, so far, are consistent in all respects with the predictions of the Standard Model. Remains to be done, and there are many who think that they will eventually find some evidence that there is physics beyond the Standard Model. Again, we have to wait to see what the experimental data taken at the LHC ATLAS and CMS, as of 2015. In any case, I think it’s time to stop talking about model and give the title it deserves: it is all a Theory.

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Operators Plans for iPhone 5 - The País.com (Spain)

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Spanish operators have begun offering their hiring plans in exchange of taking one of the new iPhone or exchange the old. Most of the plans are to two years, a strategy to have customer always tied, and that next year will be a new iPhone to follow the wheel. These are some of the deals:

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16GB iPhone from 18.60 euros per month and two-year contract.
16-gigabyte iPhone 5S from 21.90 euros per month and two-year contract .
16GB iPhone 5S from 530 euros, for new customers and exchanges, and financed up to 24 months.
16GB iPhone 5C at 450 euros and the same financing terms the above.
32GB iPhone 5S only available with financing, to 36 euros per month if paid in 24 months.
iPhone 4S 16 GB, 20.08 euros per month, if the client welcomes funding to 24 months.
iPhone 4S 32 GB, 24.94 per month for two years
iPhone 4S 64 GB, r 28.62 euros a month for two years.
-Change the old 16GB iPhone 5 iPhone 5S by 16 GB if you Base3 rate.
-Rate iPhone 4S 16 GB for the 16GB iPhone 5S for 19 euros plus the rate Base3.

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16 5C 20 euros for two years with 25 and Infinite Infinite 35.
16GB iPhone 5S for 49 euros 20 euros monthly for 24 months with Infinite 25.
16GB iPhone 5S with monthly fee of 20 euros, also for 24 months with the Infinite 35.

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16GB iPhone for 49 euros with the rate 5S Red
32GB iPhone for 149 euros with the rate
Network Free iPhone 5C-16 GB hiring rate if they
Network Free iPhone 4S 8GB Network hiring rate

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16GB iPhone for 483 euros, with shares of 16 euros plus VAT and plan Whale.
iPhone 5S 32 GB, with a monthly payment of 19 euros plus VAT for two years.

The Sun emits its second solar flare in just 48 hours - CNN

Madrid. (EP). – The Sun has issued its second solar flare in just 48 hours , as appears from an image captured on Friday by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO, for its acronym in English) spacecraft, according to the U.S. space agency.

Specifically, it is an X1.7-class solar flare, considered the most powerful, from the spot called AR 1882. At dawn on Thursday, just 48 hours earlier, another eruption is registered M9.3 class of lesser intensity.

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remember that solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Despite its harmful effects can not pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans when they are intense enough can disrupt the atmosphere at the height of the GPS and communication signals, which can disrupt radio signals from minutes to hours.

The sun emits three solar flares in just 48 hours - Mundo.es

The Sun has issued its third solar flare in just 48 hours, as shown in the images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO, for its acronym in English) spacecraft.

Specifically, it is an X2.1-class solar flare. Shortly before another solar flare occurred in this case classified as X1.7 and from the stain called AR 1882. At dawn on Thursday, just 48 hours earlier, there was another eruption M9.3 class of lesser intensity.

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remember that solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Although its effects not dangerous for humans , when they are intense enough itself can alter communications systems and interrupt for some time (minutes or hours) radio signals.

However, incidents have hitherto been very uncommon. On occasion, as a precaution, also have diverted some commercial flight routes near the north pole to avoid interference with radio systems.

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the Sun is at its peak in its cycle , which astronomers have been established in 11 years to study their evolution. So NASA needs this kind of phenomena are common and increase as it reaches its peak. The first X-class flare that occurred in the present solar cycle occurred in February 2011. The most intense occurred on August 9, 2011 and was classified as X6.9.

Best of iPhone 5S ... and some weaknesses - The País.com (Spain)

Outside, unless you opt for the golden color, model the rage in China, do not appreciate the changes. The iPhone 5S is very similar to 5, you just disappear from the catalog of Apple. It keeps the screen of four inches, although the trend is to go beyond the five. The plug is also maintained. The idea is to please all the faithful who were disappointed when they had to buy accessories

The first noticeable change is in the main button. Square disappears. Now is a button apparently blind, but that hides within it a fingerprint detector. The mobile phone can be unlocked to leave your finger, without having to enter PIN. The intention is to safeguard the privacy and enhance security in the event of loss. In the future will be able to shop online without having to enter the card details again and again. Apple insists that the trace information is encrypted and is not stored or its servers or in the shops, but only on the phone without being able to access through the operating system.

On top perceived a change in the camera. They keep eight megapixels, but the sensor size changes. The flash is doubled in order to measure and balance light. The menu, again, is similar to the iPhone 5, except when you open the video option. Now you can record in slow motion with high quality. An open door to creativity, perfect for sports fans or a touch of emotion to the first steps of a child.

It eliminates waiting for several photos. Simply resting your finger on the shutter button to capture limitless burst. After leaving the phone can choose the top or directly the ones you like.

It eliminates waiting for several photos. Simply resting your finger on the shutter button to capture limitless burst.

News are inside, on two processors renewed. The A7 promises an improvement in the overall management of the phone. iOS 7, now runs. The animations are much more fluid and there is hardly any delay to switch from one application to another. The M7, however, specializes in the movement. For now, only marginally without an application created especially for this chip.

In both cases, the manufacturer insists they are optimized to improve battery life, until now the weakest point.

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The iPhone 5S and 5C reach Spain - Reuters

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iPhone The iPhone 5S and 5C have come in the morning on Friday to Spanish markets. The new smartphones from Apple can be purchased at the Apple Store both physical and online store, and an estimated ship date two to three weeks for the iPhone 5S, and one to three days for the iPhone 5C.

iPhone 5S and 5C have come this Friday to the markets of 22 other countries apart from Spain, although they had been offered for sale in a first round in the U.S., Japan, UK and Germany, among others.

handset prices in Spain have remained with respect to other European Union countries. Thus, the 16GB model of the iPhone 5S costs 699 euros, 799 euros the 32 GB and 899 euros for the 64 GB. Additionally you can choose between the colors silver, gold and gray space.

As for the iPhone

5C, free price is 599 Euros for the 16GB model and 699 euros for the 32 GB. This terminal will be available in the colors green, blue, yellow, pink and white polycarbonate shell.

Reviewing the technical specifications of each ‘smartphone’ iPhone 5S include the innovative Touch sensor ID to unlock the screen and authenticate the user’s identity. It also has an 8-megapixel iSight camera, True Tone flash capable of recording video in Slow Motion and HD at 1080p and a front camera of 1.2 megapixels.

iPhone 5S features a 4-inch Retina display also integrates the new A7 chip 64-bit, allowing you to easily move the new operating system of the firm, iOS 7.

respect to the characteristics of the successor of the iPhone 5, ie iPhone 5C, could also include iSight camera 8 megapixel with LED flash and video recording at 1080p HD and

1.2-megapixel front camera with 720p HD recording.

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A6 chip is integrated the latest version of Apple’s operating system, iOS 7.

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Peter Higgs fears that Spain lost the forefront of science - La Voz de Galicia

The day before the delivery of the Princes of Asturias prizes, with the winners already in Oviedo, became a claim in defense of science and strong support for Spain not lose, to Because of the cuts, the gains of the past decades. The first to open fire were the parents of the Higgs boson, the God particle, physicists and Nobel laureates Peter Higgs and François Englert, who warned that the cuts in research may lead to losing the forefront Spain reached in the past 30 years and slow the development of basic science necessary for progress.

“It would be a pity that in Spain, a country that until 30 years ago was far behind the other countries in support of science and in recent years has reached the most advanced countries, the economic crisis made him stay back again, “lamented Higgs. The director general of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Rolf Heuer, also awarded the Prince of Asturias Research, although the Nobel has forgotten him, agreed with his colleagues. “It is very important not to cut back on research, it is the basis to overcome the economic crisis and is the main way to moderate the future,” he said.

Then came the turn of the president of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Peter Gruss, Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. “Spain-said-should strive to retain their young brains” while urging “all Spanish politicians to invest more rather than cut back on basic research because that will allow the economy thrive.”

In another context, Higgs denied that there is contradiction between science and faith. “Although I am not a believer, there is no conflict between the creator God and what we have discovered the universe is perfectly possible to have religious beliefs and science be both,” he said in comments reported by Europa Press.

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Galaxy Image class=”text”> z8-GND-5296, the most distant ever discovered, as it was 700 million years after the Big Bang. (V.TILVI, SL Finkelstein, C. Papovich, STSCI / NAS)

A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy ever known .

The galaxy, called 8-GND-5296, you see how was just 700 million years after the Big Bang , when the universe was only 5% of its current age of 13,800 million of years, concludes the investigation of these experts, published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature .

class=”imp”> The galaxies we see how it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 5% of its current age With the collaboration of experts University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas A & M and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in the United States, astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, United States, Bahram Mobasher and Naveen Reddy identified a galaxy far distant using deep optical and infrared images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope . Follow-up observations with the Keck Telescope in Hawaii confirmed their distance.

In their search for distant galaxies, the team selected several candidates, depending on their colors , of the nearly 100,000 galaxies identified in the Hubble Space Telescope images taken as part of the survey CANDELS , the largest project undertaken by the telescope, with a total time allocated for around 900 hours.

However, use colors to classify galaxies is difficult because some objects nearby may be masked as distant galaxies.

redshift, measuring distances in the universe

To measure the distance to galaxies in a definitive way, used spectroscopy, ie the amount of the wavelength of light from a galaxy has shifted toward the red end of the spectrum as he travels from galaxy to Earth, due to the expansion of the universe, a phenomenon called ‘redshift’. Since the expansion velocity and the distances of galaxies are proportional, the redshift gives astronomers measure the distance to galaxies.

class=”imp”> When you look at distant objects, we see them as they were in the past “What makes this unique galaxy, compared with other discoveries of this type, is the Spectroscopic confirmation distance “said Mobasher, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Observational.

astronomer explained that because light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, when we look at distant objects, see them as they were in the past . The more distant we take these observations, we can see farther in the past.

“By observing a galaxy far back in time, we can study the first galaxies form,” he said. “By comparing the properties of galaxies at different distances, it is possible to explore the evolution of galaxies throughout the universe’s age,” said Mobasher.

MOSFIRE, a revolutionary instrument

The discovery was made possible by a new instrument, MOSFIRE in the Keck Telescope , a highly sensitive tool that is designed to detect infrared light, a region of the spectrum where the length shifts wave of light emitted from distant galaxies, and could point to several objects at once.

MOSFIRE class=”imp”> in the Keck Telescope, is an extremely sensitive tool that is designed to detect infrared light This last feature was what allowed researchers to observe 43 galaxies candidates in only two nights with Keck observations and obtain higher quality than previous analyzes.

Of the 43 galaxies observed with MOSFIRE, a single galaxy, z8-GND-5296, highlighted with a redshift of 7.5 .

observations showed that it is forming stars very rapidly, with an annual production of approximately 300 times the mass of our Sun , while the Milky Way form only two or three stars per year.

new distance record holder is in the same part of the sky than the previous record holder (a redshift of 7.2), which also happens to have a very high rate of star formation.

"It would be a shame to Spain again to stay back with ... - The Digital Trade (Asturias)

Faculty hosted a massive gathering of students awarded, which did not lack humor and beer

Englert, Higgs and CERN were highly critical of the cuts in science

The Faculty of Science, University of Oviedo has about 300 students and, although he had convened a one-day strike, virtually all were there because seldom can see and hear for two awards Nobel and the heads of scientific institutions in the world, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The winners of the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, Peter Higgs, François Englert and Sergio Bertolucci, CERN’s research director, is given a walkabout and youth. Though they were the protagonists of a scientific meeting, virtually ceded that role to students who packed two large classrooms, a tent outside and even witnessed the talk through the windows. In fact, the end of the event were overwhelmed with anticipation. “You are the future,” he said on more than one occasion, to the cheers and excitement of the students, who even thanked them with a banner discovery.

In scientific meeting with the presiding Higgs formula on a blackboard classroom, physicists Bertolucci went over his career and activities of the organization. While the director of CERN, Rolf Heuer, sat in the audience as one. The Belgian François Englert recalled his work with the late Robert Brout, with whom he published his theory of scalar boson, later known as the Higgs boson when the Scottish physicist independently published another work that put a spotlight on this particle. “The understanding of both investigations made more convincing conjecture,” said Englert, Higgs thanking their efforts in the same field. He called on young people to research and go with your intuition “may give us a better perspective Mozart’s opera a lecture” even stated.

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the other hand, Eduardo Saenz de Cabezon mathematician and physicist Javier Santaolalla put a touch of humor to the act. These two young researchers are part of a group of stand-up that tries to popularize science easily and in honor of the series The Big Bang Theory, Big call themselves Van Theory. To explain the work of CERN created their own particle collision, yes with apples, in what they called the first hadron accelerator Asturian, ‘That ye ho’.

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“In times of crisis we must make a balance between short and long term, because the longer the future, especially of young people, and I think the research something that educates and provides the basis for welfare, “he insisted Heuer.

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Found the most distant galaxy known - La Vanguardia

London. (EFE). – A team of American astronomers has discovered the Galaxy farthest known , whose light was emitted when the Universe was only May 1 percent of its current age of 13,800 million years.

The galaxy, named z8-GND-5296 , dating back to when the result of the Big Bang universe was only 700 million years, “and what makes it unique compared to other similar discoveries is that its distance has been confirmed by a spectrograph, “said Bahram Mobasher astronomer at the University of California, one of the team members who published their findings Wednesday in the journal Nature .

The galaxy was detected among 43 candidates, using infrared images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, and its distance was confirmed by observations with the sophisticated spectrograph MOSFIRE Keck Telescope in Hawaii.

Studying the first galaxies is difficult because when its light reaches Earth has shifted to the infrared part of the spectrum due to the expansion of the Universe, in a phenomenon called red shift (redshift).

Therefore, astronomers rely on increasingly sensitive spectrographs on telescopes located on Earth, capable of measuring the redshift of the light from the galaxy, which is proportional to their distance.

The team, led by Steven Finkelstein, University of Texas, and Dominik Riechers, Cornell University (New York), also noted that the new Galaxy has a formation rate stars “surprisingly high”, about 300 times a year the mass of our sun, compared to the Milky Way, which is only two to three stars per year.

“These discoveries provide clues to the birth of the universe and suggest areas that can host a star formation more intense than previously thought,” said the construction of telescopes Finkelstein.Con increasingly largest in Hawaii and Chile and James Webb telescope in space, at the end of this decade, astronomers hope to discover many more galaxies at even greater distances, as Mobasher.

Higgs says that "there is no conflict between the creator God and what ... - CNN

Oviedo. (EP). – Physicist Peter Higgs , one of the winners of the Prince Asturias Technical and Scientific Research for the discovery of Higgs Boson , said that their finding “gives a physical reason” why there is life, a fact that, in his opinion, is not incompatible with the conception of the existence of God.

“Although I am not a believer, there is no conflict between the creator God and what we have discovered the universe is perfectly possible to have religious beliefs and science be both,” he said during the press conference on Thursday in Oviedo .

have also appeared before the media the other two winners in this category, FranÇois Englert, who also theorized about the existence of the particle, and Rolf Heuer, director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where produced experimental confirmation of the existence of the Higgs.

Heuer has indicated that this discovery belongs to basic science and therefore will not have an immediate application, though, has predicted that “certainly applies at some point.” For now, explained that what brings the discovery is the knowledge of why life can exist.

“This mechanism is necessary to give fundamental particles (of which all things are made) mass without mass could not find composite material, everything would be floating around the universe,” he said.

Investing in research

Moreover, the three winners were unanimous defended investment in scientific research in Spain. “It’s very important not to cut back on research, it is the basis to overcome the economic crisis and is the main way to moderate the future”, expressed Heuer.

“In times of crisis we must make a balance between short and long term, because the longer the future, especially of young people, and I think that research is something that educates and provides the basis for the welfare” he added.

In the same line, Englert said, adding that “research is the foundation on which everything develops.” “If you overlooked the importance of science, what is happening is a repeat, copies of what others have done, but there is no creativity, so that the spirit of construction is lost,” he explained.

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added that “it is very important to keep the development of fundamental science, but not only by progress in itself, but for the purpose of disseminating information and teach society to access rationality.”

Higgs has stated that “it would be a pity that in Spain, a country that until 30 years ago was far behind the other countries in support of science and in recent years has reached the most advanced countries, the crisis Economic Left Behind do that again. “

Winners absent

Given the controversy over the non-inclusion among the winners of some of the researchers who helped this finding, Higgs said that “it is unfortunate that the Nobel has not extended recognition to the people who contributed also in 1964″ when first formulated the theory.

finally reminded Robert Higgs Brout, a physicist who contributed to the research, and who died in 2011. “The recognition is attributed to several people, to the theory and the experimental, but I think at least one person who should have been included in the Nobel Prize,” he concluded.

Thanks for the Higgs (and also beer) - The País.com (Spain)

“Thanks for the boson “. The young man who displayed the banner to the discoverers of the elusive particle was only one of hundreds who have gathered at noon in the Faculty of Science of Oviedo to listen to the two Nobel Prize in Physics and Prince of Asturias Scientific Research, Peter Higgs-boson that gave name to, ‘and François Englert. Students have responded overwhelmingly to the call of the keynote address of the winners, which took place in one of the classrooms on the ground floor, and the vast majority have followed huddled with the windows open or on screens arranged in a tent in the courtyard. Understanding what the scholars has been poured variable. A student with an air of character The Big Bang Theory and a shirt that chemical formulas detailed in the organic composition of user confessed to have been unaware of anything, while a young girl she said “so-so” and that had not yet addressed in class. After the talk, Higgs, whose friendly appearance makes it irresistible hobbit Bilbo nickname him Boson- and Englert have signed the board behind him, on which was written the formula for find-here is not made the mistake of deleting as happened in Barcelona on a visit to Einstein, and has been for the anecdote that Englert Corrected a typo on placing a sign hairline psi. No one had noticed the error.

end overflowed public enthusiasm as scientists turned into stars toasted with beer Ale Higgs Boson, conceived and developed to recognize the career of Peter Higgs, that science itself is promoting, what the hell! The event took on a tone of Douglas Adams novel-the author of The Hitchhiker – with Nobel raising glasses and singing a song to the boson, science and what it took. It was very emotional recognition that the future of science is in the students who waited patiently to applaud, cheer them, portraying them and to ask for autographs. This reporter slipped with the authorities and in a display of scientific empiricism could try the above beer, which, beyond their scientific value, was chilly.

Other news of the day was the arrival of Annie Leibovitz Award for Communication and Humanities, which, contrary to its reputation for bad temper, has been portrayed detail with press photographers and has even kissed anyone.

morning, awarded in the category of Social Sciences, sociologist Saskia Sassen, Professor of the subject at the University of Columbia (USA) announced that it will donate the prize of EUR 50,000 to a number of organizations helping the disadvantaged, especially in Asturias. Asturian collective Twenty Tide grouped Sassen Citizen had asked him to quit the award, given the interest of the scholar in excluded groups and minorities fighting the system. The sociologist explained that respects and accepts the prize, but his decision to donate joins those calling for more resources for the “disadvantaged” and “violently impoverished” in a crisis that has quantified, leaving more than 9 million homes lost.

Argentine Castilian accent, the scholar, born in 1949 in The Hague and is considered one of the leading social scientists of the world, has spoken of his concept of nomadism (“raise my shop wherever you are, when I’m in a Instead I’m in a place “) and has said his communist era did not last long and is a believer in markets. He explained that the problem with these is that they have “distorted” and 60% is international trade between different subsidiaries of the same companies. He has blamed the crisis of the welfare state to the impoverishment of the States and stressed that citizens have to move. “We must make citizenship, citizenship is not consumed, it is,” said a sociological version of the famous “ask not what your country can do for you” and so on. He warned against mass expulsion of the entire population out of economic sites and exclusion to which he complained, are forced more and more members of the middle class, whose impoverishment seems a particularly serious crisis Current. Sassen has imagined a future “development of international geopolitics”, in which cities create a parallel network to the States.

press conference by Saskia Sassen has been full of complex sociological concepts, the Higgs, Englery and Rolf Heuer, director general of CERN awarded also (European Organization for Nuclear Research) also demanded its own, without breakfast. It has begun asking God Higgs, which is a way of getting around the difficulty of elementary particles. “I’m not religious, but I have nothing against different opinions exist as individual beliefs,” said the scientist. “The problems have come when transferred and invade the territories of the other”. Higgs has held that it is “perfectly possible” to hold religious beliefs and still be scientific. The winner admitted it was “unfortunate” that the recognition by the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs does not fall at all “several people” who contributed to the discovery but Englert and he, and specifically cited the late Robert Brout. The scientific jury praised the Prince of Asturias has included at CERN on the prize, to extend recognition. Englery has clarified then that the Nobel committee has rules and if decided to reward the theoretical background and the experimental part “was his decision.”

the thorny question of what interest can have the new particle to the ordinary citizen, Heuer has recognized that it is able to point to an immediate application but basic science seeks knowledge and some findings are not seen the use until after 50 or 60 years. “At some point there will be applications but do not know when or where.” However scientists have stressed that the discovery reveals “why we exist”, you have to agree it is no trifle. “We need the Higgs mechanism to give mass to fundamental particles. So that gives us the reason why we exist. “

"It would be regrettable that science in Spain was delayed again" - The Mundo.es

Peter Higgs has used its presence in Oviedo, where on Friday will receive the Prince of Asturias Award for Research, to break launches a passionate defense of Spanish science . After his unusual ‘frightened’ during the week was awarded the Nobel Prize, Higgs seems to have come out of hiding and finally appeared before the Spanish media with a radiant smile.

ELMUNDO.es Asked about what he would say to the president of the Spanish Government if you were in front to convince on any cuts in R & D, the physicist has responded forcefully: “In the past, science in Spain was not supported enough, and the result was that 30 years ago the country was lagging behind the rest of Europe. Yet in the last three decades the situation of Spanish science has greatly improved, so it would be very unfortunate that now again delayed again “.

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“Crop science is cut back on the ability to overcome economic problems that Spain has suffered”

this fully coincided Belgian physicist François Englert, who shares both the Nobel and the Prince of Asturias Higgs: “In this room we are surrounded by cameras, smart phones and many other wonderful technological advances. none of this would be possible without basic science research. But also, I would say something with political intent: science is a barrier to intolerance and dangerous attitudes that have caused disasters in the past in Europe , including of course Spain “.

And to finish this post, the third awarded the Prince of Asturias, Rolf Heuer, director of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), which confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson wanted to send the warning to Spanish government: “Do not think only in the short term, it is essential to look long term.’s crucial not to cut back on basic research, precisely so that a country is able to meet the current and future crises. ” Crop science is cut back on the ability to overcome economic problems that Spain has suffered “.

As modest as always, Peter Higgs has confessed that although he is “very happy” to receive all these awards nearly half a century after the existence of the Higgs postulated that bears his name, acknowledged that he would have liked to share the Nobel not Englert only, but with the other four scientists who contributed to the same theory: the Belgian Robert Brout (now deceased), Americans Gerald Guralnik and Carl Hagen, and Tom Kibble British. “I am sorry that the Nobel did not include at least some other of my colleagues.”

As for the prize

Spanish, sage Higgs, 84, said that the Prince of Asturias Award has been “a pleasant surprise” but that between this award and the Swedish Academy, the immediate future I got a little worried: “I hope stressful few weeks”.

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pp. science to subsidize cuts in bulls and the church, while not change the government Spain will remain a country of tambourine

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‘s playing our illiterate politicians. Good for Higgs.

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cut R & D but 400,000 remain corrupt politicians and trade unionists and illiterate, leading most pasta machines melt the history of Spain. As in his life have worked in a company or created a single euro of wealth, certainly believe that R & D means WASTE TAX +

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both cut or I or + D or technology or science, if so what are leaving CSIC die for lack of funding.

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Ever walked

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