Seeing the stolen starlight with Herschel

The Stolen Vehicle Parts Market

http://www.aic.gov.au Adam Graycar Director In 2000, 139,000 motor vehicles were stolen in Australia. About 80 per cent of these were recovered soon after the theft. It is estimated that about threequarters of motor vehicle thefts are opportunistic, stolen for joy-riding or transport, and one-quarter are stolen for profit. Many that are stolen for profit end up as spare parts. Very little is kn...

The story of stolen chaperones

Prions are self-seeding alternate protein conformations. Most yeast prions contain glutamine/asparagine (Q/N)-rich domains that promote the formation of amyloid-like prion aggregates. Chaperones, including Hsp104 and Sis1, are required to continually break these aggregates into smaller "seeds." Decreasing aggregate size and increasing the number of growing aggregate ends facilitates both aggreg...

Seeing the Future With

Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles

At the current stratospheric value of Bitcoin, miners with access to significant computational horsepower are literally printing money. For example, the first operator of a USD $1,500 custom ASIC mining platform claims to have recouped his investment in less than three weeks in early February 2013, and the value of a bitcoin has more than tripled since then. Not surprisingly, cybercriminals hav...

Seeing with the screen

The new technologies of visualization have turned the computer screen into a universal and highly versatile interface for the representation of scientific knowledge. Images, once regarded as mere illustrations of primarily theoretical and experimental advances, have moved centre stage where knowledge is generated from the confluence of vast amounts of raw and unintelligible data. The computer s...