Friday, November 06, 2009

Science Links for Week of 11/02/09

Popular Science

Megapixels: Thinking Cap

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

Mars is sublime

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

An App so You'll Never Forget

Wrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber

Ultracapacitor Startup Gets a Big Boost

Deriving the Arrow of Time

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

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