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Will Wireless Charging Ever Take Off?
If your ultrabook could charge your phone, would you care? The Verge got a hands-on with Intel?s vision for inductive charging. The idea is to have your smartphone charge straight from you ultrabook. No wires required, just ?close proximity.? Check out the video, and then let?s mull the thing.

Source: Technology Review
Posted on: Friday, Jun 08, 2012, 9:52am
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Some newfound planets are something else

Re-evaluation suggests one-third of hot giant orbs are misclassified

Web edition : Thursday, June 7th, 2012

When the Kepler spacecraft finds a giant planet closely orbiting a star, there?s a one in three chance that it?s not really a planet at all.

At least, that?s the case according to a new study that put some of Kepler?s thousands of candidate planets to the test using a complementary method for discovering celestial objects in stellar orbits. The results, posted June 5 on arXiv.org, suggest that 35 percent of candidate giants snuggled close to bright stars are impostors, known in the planet-hunting business as false-positives.

?Estimating the Kepler false-positive rate is one of the most burning questions in this field,? says astronomer Jean-Michel D?sert of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who has performed similar calculations for smaller planets.

Estimates by D?sert and others place the false-positive rate at less than 10 percent, which isn?t necessarily contradictory given the different target populations of various research efforts.

?We cannot say anything about smaller planets,? says Alexandre Santerne, a graduate student at the University of Aix-Marseille in France and coauthor of the arXiv.org paper. ?It?s just for giant planets close-in.?

Kepler looks for the periodic dimming of starlight produced by planets passing between Earth and their home stars near the constellation Cygnus. But not everything that darkens a star is a planet; smaller stars, for example, might masquerade as a planet. Instead of detecting periodic twinkles, Santerne and his colleagues looked for gyrations in host stars, the wiggles produced by orbiting planets? gravitational tugs. Since heavy, nearby planets yank more noticeably on their stars, the team focused on giant candidates with orbits of 25 days or less.

Out of more than 2,300 possible planets, only 46 fell into that category. Eleven of these were already known planets. Santerne?s team confirmed nine more.

The remaining 26 candidates included 13 unknowns, two failed brown dwarf stars, and 11 members of binary star systems. ?These can mimic clearly a planetary transit event,? says Santerne. ?That?s why it?s so important to distinguish these things when you want to study planets and transits from the Kepler mission.?

After distributing the unknowns according to the observed ratios of objects, the team arrived at the 35 percent false-positive rate.

That number might seem high when compared with previous estimates, but scientists don?t consider it a serious flaw for Kepler. ?This false-positive percentage is very low compared to all other transit programs,? says study coauthor and astronomer Claire Moutou, also at the University of Aix-Marseille.

The authors point to a discrepancy between their result and a 2011 study done by Timothy Morton and John Johnson at Caltech, who found a false positive rate closer to 5 percent. But comparisons between the two studies might not be so simple, Morton says, noting that the two groups calculated different things. Instead of looking at impostor rates in a specific population of planets, Morton determined the probability that any candidate ? plucked from the sea of twinkling candidates ? was real. He also excluded data from obvious impostors.

?Everything here is sort of a game of probabilities,? Morton says, pointing to the abundance of candidates. ?It will be impossible to confirm them all with observations.?

As for current estimates of billions and billions of planets in the Milky Way, Moutou says those numbers are still valid. ?Short period transiting planets are exotic objects, we don?t expect them to be everywhere,? she says. ?The potential billion planets are more expected to be small, long-period planets. We didn?t kill those ones, fortunately.?

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Thompson sets Oregon record, Ducks off to good start at NCAA's

DES MOINES, Iowa ? Lanie Thompson set the school record in the women?s 3,000 meter steeplechase and Luke Puskedra was fourth in the 10,000 meters to highlight a nearly perfect first day of the NCAA Track & Field Championships in front of 4,052 fans Wednesday at Drake Stadium.?

Oregon?s women also advanced English Gardner in the 100 meters, Phyllis Francis in the 400, Anne Kesselring and Laura Roesler in the 800, Kimber Mattox in the steeplechase and the 4x100 meter relay team on to finals. For the men, Mike Berry moved on in the 400 meters, while Elijah Greer advanced in the 800.?

"It was a good day. It?s always good not to be surprised on the first day," said Associate Athletic Director Vin Lananna. "We still have a long way to go."?

Thompson was in sixth place a few paces behind the lead pack in the first heat when she made her move with two laps remaining. She caught the leaders with a lap to go and then pushed the pace before finishing second to Colorado?s Shalaya Kipp. Kipp won in 9:59.18, with Thompson next in 9:59.90.?

"I wanted to treat today as a final and just qualify," said Thompson. "I wasn?t really trying to set a record or anything, but I knew I had this race in me."?

The sophomore from High Bridge, N.J., broke Claire Michel?s year-old school record of 10:02.55.?

Senior Kimber Mattox was seventh heat one in 10:08.39 and advanced to Friday?s final based on time. Junior Taylor Wallace was 10th in 10:35.76.?

In the men?s 10,000 meters, Puskedra was part of a swift lead pack of four runners that broke away from the field midway through the race. The four of Stephen Sambu of Arizona, Chris Derrick of Stanford, Cameron Levins of Southern Utah continued to distance themselves from the field by churning through impressive 67 and 68 second laps. The three pulled away from Puskedra with two laps remaining. Levins won in 28:07.14.?

"It feels pretty good to be in that company," said Puskedra. "It was fun out there."?

Puskedra, a senior from Ogden, Utah, was fourth in 28:24.24, marking his best NCAA showing in his final race as a Duck.

Earlier in the day, Gardner ran the fastest qualifying time in the women?s 100 meters to advance to Friday?s final. She got out of the blocks quickly and held on to win her heat in 11.10.?

"It wasn?t the best race," said Gardner. "I still have a lot of technical things to work on."?

Gardner was also part of Oregon?s impressive 4x100 relay team that ran the second-fastest time in school history, 43.32, finishing second to Texas A&M in its semifinal heat to automatically advance to Saturday?s final.?

Phyllis Francis led off, and gave the baton to Gardner, who powered Oregon to the lead on the back stretch. Gardner handed off to Lauryn Newson, followed by Amber Purvis, who came in just behind Texas A&M?s 42.90. Oregon?s time was the third fastest overall on Wednesday.?

"I?m very proud about the relay," said an excited Gardner.?

Oregon was also strong in the 800 meters where two women and one man advanced.?

Laura Roesler set a big personal-best to finish second in the final heat in 2:02.09, the fifth fastest time in school history. She let Chanelle Price of Tennessee take the race out on a swift pace, before closing with a big kick over the last 150 meters to easily advance to Friday?s final. Price won in 2:01.66.

"It felt really good because I knew my training was there," said the Fargo, N.D., native. "I just watched Chanelle and didn?t want to get too excited and go too early.?

"It feels really good," said Roesler, who finally bettered her high school PR in the 800. "It?s definitely a weight off my shoulders."?

In the second heat of the 800, Kesselring got boxed in midway through the race, but fought her way out to finish second in 2:02.66 and move on to the final. Freshman Claudia Francis was eighth in her heat in 2:12.74.?

On the men?s side, junior Elijah Greer ended up third in a tight battle in heat three, but advanced to Friday?s final on time. Erik Sowinski of Iowa won in 1:46.09, Edward Kemboi of Iowa State was second in 1:46.20 and Greer was next in 1:46.22. Sophomore Boru Guyota was seventh in his heat in 1:48.01.?

"That was a little bit of a scare there," said Greer. "I think I could have closed that race a little better."?

In the men?s 400 meters, Mike Berry flipped a switch around the last turn and won his heat in 45.05 to qualify for Friday?s final. The sophomore from Seattle, Wash., held off charges from Akheem Gauntlett of Arkansas (45.13) and Deon Lendore of Texas A&M (45.19).?

"I?m excited for the finals because a lot of people ran fast in the prelims," said. Berry. "I felt pretty smooth today."?

The women saw Phyllis Francis win her 400 meter heat in a personal-best 51.22, which was the second-best time in school history, as the sophomore from Queens, N.Y., advanced to Friday?s final. Sophomore Chizoba Okodogbe was sixth in her heat in 53.38 and did not advance.?

Also Wednesday, Dakotah Keys set personal bests in both decathlon running events to stand 16th after day one with 3,789 points. The freshman from Sweet Home, Ore., opened the day by running 11.14 in the 100 meters and closed it by timing 50.15, both PRs.?

In between, Keys went 22-2.5/6.77m in the long jump, 6-6.25/1.99m in the high jump and 38-10.25/11.84m in the shot put.?

"It wasn?t a great day for me, but I?m still in it," said Keys. "Some things didn?t go as well as I wanted, but you can?t let yourself get out of the game.?

"I just wanted to forget everything else and PR in the 400."?

The men?s 4x100 team of Dior Mathis, Arthur Delaney, Joeal Hotchkins, Dior Mathis and Berry was sixth in their heat in 40.03.

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COLLEGE TRACK & FIELD: LBSU's Woodruff 19th at national meet

DES MOINES, Iowa - Senior Ben Woodruff concluded his two-year career at Long Beach State with a 19th-place showing in the men's javelin at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday at Drake Stadium.

Woodruff's best throw of the day was on his first attempt - 221 feet, 10 inches. His placing at the NCAA Championships earned him honorable mention All-America recognition.

Woodruff was unable to advance out of his flight as only the top nine performers moved on to the finals.

Woodruff, who started competing in the javelin in 2010, had a remarkable senior season. The Redondo Beach native claimed his second consecutive Big West title in the javelin and was named the 2012 Big West Men's Field Athlete of the Year.

Woodruff's best performance of the season came at the Big West Challenge where he established a school and conference record of 243-2. His top mark also meets the Olympic Trials "B" standard.

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