Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
Science Links for Week of 11/02/09
Popular Science
Cheap, Printed Solar LEDs To Light Up Off-Grid African Villages
Silk-Silicon Implantable Electronics Conform to Tissues, Then Melt Away
Stealth Wind Turbines Avoid Erasing Aircraft From Radar
Algae Used To Produce Green Plastics, Sans Petroleum
Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Five Milestones in the Ever-Evolving History of the Web
Muscle-Based PC Interface Lets You Literally Point and Click, No Mouse Required
Popular Mechanics
Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis
Car Industry Plans Shift to Low-Impact Refrigerant in A/C Systems
7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths
How Plane Technologies Affect the Titanium Market: Timeline
Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis
Discover Magazine
A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea
Military Taser Has 200-Foot Range-and Safety Concerns
Latest Mercury Pics Reveal Massive Craters & Possible Volcanic Vents
Golden Nanocages Could Deliver Cancer Drugs to Tumors
Cassini dances with Enceladus once again
Scientific American
Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way's Center?
How You Learn More from Success Than Failure
How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement
Stellar deal: NASA awards $2 million to X Prize winners for helping develop a lunar lander
Wireless tech taking a toll on Earth science and astronomy
Mining for Algae: Could Abandoned Mines Help Grow Biofuel?
Why Johnny can't hypothesize: A discussion about math and science education
Technology Review
A Genetically Engineered Rainbow of Bacteria
Wrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber
Ultracapacitor Startup Gets a Big Boost
How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
The Failing Future For Earthquake Forecasts
Ars Technica
You win some, you lose some: a review of Apple's Magic Mouse
Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk
Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers
Microsoft posts 140-page Windows 7 Product Guide
Stackable memory advance brings flash-killer closer to market
Science and Technology Links for the Week of 10/19/09
Popular Science-
Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes
iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze
Video: Play Dungeons and Dragons on Microsoft's Surface Table
Apple's Magic Mouse Mates a Multitouch Trackpad With Traditional Pointer
A Hammer Is No Match For a Flexible OLED Display
New Neurological Evidence That the Internet Makes People Smarter
Ten Young Geniuses Shaking Up Science Today
Popular Mechanics-
4 Things the Barnes & Noble Nook Does Right, and 5 It Does Wrong
The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec
Exclusive Interview With Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto
PM Takes Project Natal For A Test Drive (With Video!)
New Drill Bit for F-35 Planes has Bonded Home-Grown Diamonds
Discover Magazine-
Who Killed All Those Honeybees? We Did
How Invaders Break Through the Brain's Great Wall
Is Alzheimer's Like a Strange Form of Brain Cancer?
Moon Plume Detected! NASA's Lunar Crash Wasn't a Flop, After All
The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts
Scientific American-
Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception
Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House
How much are coral ecosystems worth? Try $172 billion--A year
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn
Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes
It's all Chinese to me: Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese
Technology Review-
Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab
Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells
Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses
Intelligence Explained - Actually, this particular article is about the use of MRI with a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map out the circuits of the brain's white matter, and how that circuitry might correspond to intelligence.
Ars Technica-
LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks
Magic Mouse: Oh my God-it's full of capacitive sensors! - This relates to Apples new multi-touch mouse for the Mac.
30 years of failure: the username/password combination
DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down
Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Science and Technology Links for the week of 10/05/09
Ars Technica
Microsoft Research demoes five multitouch mice
CCDs, fiber optics take home Physics Nobel Prize
Fusion 3.0 gains Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Aero support
97 percent of Intel testers recommend Windows 7
Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 hits RTM
Obama bans "texting while driving" for 4.5M govt workers
Technology Review
How Neutrinos Could Revolutionize Communications with Submarines
Startup That Builds Biological Parts
Behind the Big Apple's Data Dump
How Fruit Flies Execute In-Flight Turns
Scientific American
Astronomers Discover Solar System's Largest Planetary Ring Yet around Saturn
Abruptly Forgotten: Working Memory Disappears in a Blink
Unraveling the Ribosome: Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Modelers of Cells' Protein-Maker [Updated]
New Vaccine May Immunize Addicts from Cocaine's Pleasurable Effects
Pirate Economics?: Captain Hook Meets Adam Smith
Climate change may mean slower winds
Flashy Fungi: Researchers Still in the Dark over Glowing Jungle Mushrooms
Popular Mechanics
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Microsoft Natal - This looks very, very promising, and if it works anything like the demo, I might consider getting an X-Box 360 in the future just for its sake alone. But in the meantime, let me get in a plug for the Wiimote's new accessory, the WiiMotion Plus. I recently purchased it, and the control on this is extraordinary.
MythBusters Q&A: New Season Filled With Bullets, MPG Tests and Duct Tape
What Does a Beer Taste Like After the Singularity?
Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System
The Science Behind The Invention of Lying: Hollywood Fact vs. Fiction
Bonus website pointed to by an article at this site: Will It Blend? If you ever wondered what would happen if you put consumer electronics in the blender, this is the site for you.
Discover Magazine
Boosting a Brain Wave Makes People Move Slow-and Bad at Video Games
Would You Pay $39.99 for an Energy-Efficient Light Bulb?
Brain-Saving, Mind-Blowing, Hi-Tech Medical Imaging
Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?
When Less Information Is More - Relates to Genomics and informing people of genetic abnormalities
The 9 Industries That Will Be Most Screwed by Global Warming - Pardon the French, the gallery's interesting.
Popular Science
The World's First Image of an Entire Sunspot's Structure
Physicist Looks to Build a Kilometer-Long Cannon for Space Launches
Google Working on "Smart Charging" Software for Electric Cars
Electron Microscopes Powered by Quantum Mechanics Could See Through Living Cells
Breeding Super-Hygienic Bees to Take the Offensive in Colony Collapse Fight
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Science and Technology Links for this Week (9/28/09)
Popular Science-
Hands On: Fulifilm Real 3D W1 Digital Camera
The Power Loader Is Real - For those wanting to confront Alien Queens, there is no substitute.
Unexpectedly, Cosmic Ray Intensity in Space Reaches Highest Level in 50 Years
"Time Telescopes" Could Make Data Transfer 27 Times Faster
ISS Could Get its Own Electron-Beam Fabrication 3-D Printer
Plutonium Shortage Threatens Future Deep Space Missions
Video: MIT Scientist Explains How OLEDs Work, Using a Glowing Pickle
Popular Mechanics-
Robotic Surgeons Take Over at a Hospital Near You
Is Qualcomm's Mirasol the Future of Low-Power Displays?
Explosion Savages Massive Sugar Mill: What Went Wrong
How Halo ODST Creators Built a Blockbuster Game in 14 Months
Students Build the Solar Homes of the Future
Discover Magazine-
Major Earthquakes Can Weaken Faults Across the Globe
Electric Fish Powers Down To Save Energy
A Silver Lining: Economic Bust Is a Health Boom
South Pacific Tsunami Kills More Than 100 People
Space Probe Soon to Study Mercury's Comet-Like "Tail"
Study: Strange Planet Has Atmosphere of Gaseous Rock-and It Rains Pebbles
For Proteins, Evolution Is a One-Way Street
Did a Throat Infection Take Down Sue, the Famous T. Rex?
Scientific American-
What (Maybe) Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs: Comets
Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
The problem with psychopaths: a fearful face doesn't deter them
The Effect of Our Surroundings on Body Weight
Technology Review
A Material to Chill "Dirty" Fuel Cells
Can the Wireless Internet Be Neutral?
Nanosensing Transistors Controlled by Stress
The Mystery of the Runaway Star
When Universes Collide, How Would We Know?
Ars Technica-
NVIDIA's Fermi takes direct aim at supercomputing, Intel
Datacenter energy costs outpacing hardware prices
ICANN cuts cord to US government, gets broader oversight
Carbon nanotubes may power ultracapacitor car
Turning the tide: a hands-on look at Google's Wave
Editorial: "Network neutrality" or "network neutering"?
Virtual composer makes beautiful music-and stirs controversy
Holographic storage, phase-change memory coming soon
Monday, September 21, 2009
Science and Technology Links for 9/21/09
Popular Science
Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Users' Photos
Scientists Create First Ever Magnetic Gas
Moon May Beat Pluto as Coldest Place in Solar System
Panasonic's Robotic Bed Transforms into a Mobile Chair, Makes Standing Up Obsolete
DARPA Wants A Few Good Space Debris Cleaners
New from Boeing: Flying Bot Swarms You Control With Body Language
New Material Brings IBM's Super-High-Density Memory Closer to Market
Popular Mechanics
The Guide to Home Geothermal Energy
5 Realistic Lessons in Radical Consumption From No Impact Man
Behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' 3D Food FX (With Video!)
Weird Stories of Objects Falling From the Sky-Explained
The Flying Future for America's Missile Shield
Top 8 Next-Gen, Alt Fuel Cars at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show
Top 10 Most Dangerous Plants in the World
Discover Magazine
What does 3.6 million pounds of thrust look like?
How Long Would It Take a Physics Lecture to Actually Kill You?
The Real Problem With a Human Trip to Mars: Radiation
How to Make Water Drops Bounce Off Each Other Like Beach Balls
Body Attacks Self; Body Protects Self
Scientific American
Algaeus lives! A modified Prius goes cross-country on fuel from algae
NASA's moon orbiter returns promising early data in the hunt for lunar water ice
Torture Interferes with Memory
Better Materials Could Build a Green Construction Industry
Conditional Consciousness: Patients in Vegetative States Can Learn, Predicting Recovery
Technology Review
Laser-Triggered Chemical Reactions
A Silver Lining for the Government's Cloud
Geoengineering May Be Necessary, Despite Its Perils
Games Company Declares War on Gold Farmers
Blueprint for a Quantum Electric Motor
Ars Technica
If spectrum isn't scarce anymore, can you say $#!% on TV?
DOJ: Google book settlement needs major rewrite
FCC Chairman wants network neutrality, wired and wireless
A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest
IE program manager endorses HTML 5 multimedia tags
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