Saturday, March 06, 2010

Science and Technology Links for Week of March 1st

Popular Science-

New Answer to 80-Year-Old Question Makes Computer Modeling 100,000 Times Faster

MIT Stumbles on a Way to Print Flexible Coatings Made of Micromachines

LED Shortage This Year Could Keep TV, Device Prices High

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface

NASA Finds Millions of Tons of Water Ice in Lunar Craters, No Moon Bombing Necessary

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

Massive Solar Storms of the Future Could Reap Katrina-Scale Devastation

Discover Magazine-

Spacecraft-Collected Comet Dust Reveals Surprises From the Solar System's Boondocks

Tattoo-Removing Lasers Also Remove Grime From Classic Works of Art

Physicists Shoot Neutrinos Across Japan to an Experiment in an Abandoned Mine

An Iceberg the Size of Luxembourg Breaks Free From Antarctica

More Watery Eruptions, and More Heat, on Saturn's Moon Enceladus

Scientific American-

Is ARPA-E Enough to Keep the U.S. on the Cutting-Edge of a Clean Energy Revolution?

Gut bacteria gene complement dwarfs human genome

Shift happens: Will artificial photosynthesis power the world?

Scientists observe protein folding in living cells for the first time

Stroke victims aided in motor function recovery by playing home video games

Artificial arthropod hair makes for top-notch waterproofing

Surprised? How the brain records memories of the unexpected

Popular Mechanics-

Anatomy of Toyota's Problem Pedal: Mechanic's Diary

The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force

Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk?

How Transformers Can Explode

The World's 18 Strangest Airports

Technology Review-

Scaling Up Solar Power

Reinventing the Commercial Jet

Faster Optical Switching Through Chemistry

Touch Screens that Touch Back

Loan to Kick-start U.S. Solar Thermal Industry

Material Traps Light on the Cheap

Bloom Reveals New Fuel Cells

Ars Technica-

The end of analog: Blair Levin on the National Broadband Plan

Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps 'Net connections

Obama admin declassifies major cybersecurity plans

Desperate cities beseech St. Google: bless us with thy fiber

Piezo-rubber creates potential for wearable energy system