Thursday, October 01, 2009

Science and Technology Links for this Week (9/28/09)

Popular Science-

How To Make Ferrofluid

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

You Snooze, You Lose--Weight

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

How Aviation Can Come Clean

Can the Wireless Internet Be Neutral?

Nanosensing Transistors Controlled by Stress

The Mystery of the Runaway Star

When Universes Collide, How Would We Know?

Lunar Self-Cleaning Material

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