Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Science and Technology Links for week of 9/14/09

Discover Magazine

Rock Solid Evidence of a Rocky, Earth-like Exoplanet

Jupiter Grabbed a Comet for 12 Years, Then Flung It Back Out

To Save the Planet From Global Warming, Turn the Sahara Green

Did Your Morning Shower Spray You With Bacteria?

How Does the Brain Use So Much Energy? Not in Electrical Signals.

Popular Science

ESO's Zoomable 0.8 Gigapixel Panoramic Image of the Milky Way

Scientists Map Out Gravitational Space Highways

Man Ray Meets Mr. Wizard in Sugimoto's "Lightning Fields" Photos

Nanotubes Could Enable Self-Repairing Electronic Circuits

How Much Can You Really Learn With a Free Online Education?

PopSci U: Seven of the Country's Coolest SciTech Courses

Newly Refurbished Hubble Sends Back Stunning First Images

Scientific American

Six Russian Volcanoes Erupt

Detecting Digitally Altered Video

When an Electric Car Dies, What Will Happen to the Battery?

Drilling Project Pulls Up Evidence for Early Oxygen in the Oceans

Why Does Music Make Us Feel?

Gene therapy: An Interview with an Unfortunate Pioneer

Popular Mechanics

Launch System Skepticism Grows at Space 2009: Guest Analysis

Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis

Debunking 5 Prevalent Swine Flu Myths

9: The Making of a Stitchpunked World

Neill Blomkamp Explains the Origin of District 9's Aliens

Technology Review

Ultradense, 3-D Data Storage

Superefficient Solar from Nanotubes

A Device to Spot Autism Early

A Salt and Paper Battery

More Efficient, and Cheaper, Solar Cells

Ars Technica

Hands on: limitations of Google Fast Flip make it a novelty

Last.fm Scrobbles coming to a radio near you on October 5

Five essential things to know about evolution

WebKit adoption shows strong momentum for WebGL 3D graphics

AT&T to FCC: gaming is not "broadband," but an added service

Intel's new flash tech to bring back Turbo Memory, for real