February 2007 in science
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February 27 2007
- The New Horizons spacecraft makes a flyby of the planet Jupiter on its way to Pluto. BBC News
- A hail storm damages the external tank of STS-117 while sitting on the launch pad, and will delay the launch by at least multiple weeks. (SpaceRef.com)
February 25 2007
- The Rosetta spacecraft successfully swings by the planet Mars on its way to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (BBCNews)
February 23 2007
- In a poster session at the Cosyne 07 academic conference, researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and the University of Nevada present a neural-level computer simulation of half a mouse brain at one tenth its normal speed; the massively parallel simulation, covering the equivalent of one second's brain activity, is run on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer with 4096 processors, each one having 256 MB of memory (for a total memory size of 1 TB). The presentation's title is "Towards real-time, mouse-scale cortical simulations". (BBC News) (NordicHardware.com)
February 11 2007
- Researchers identify genetic clues to type 2 diabetes. (Boston Globe)
February 7 2007
- ICANN reports that its root nameserver is under a massive denial-of-service attack from an unknown source. At the same time, servers managed by US Defense Department and UltraDNS are also being targeted. (BBCNews)
February 2 2007
- An IPCC meeting at Paris, France, ends with a report that finds a probability of 90 % or higher that human actions are creating a warming trend in the world's climate, causing global warming. (Reuters)