Sunday, March 14, 2010

Science and Technology Links for the Week of March 8, 2010

Popular Science-

Flexible Nanocrystal Fibers Can Harness Tidbits of Waste Energy to Create Hydrogen Fuel

International Space Station Appears Ghostly Blue in Radar Satellite Photo

Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth

The Super Mario Multiverse (Article written in 2008, but you've got to see it!)

'Quake Catcher' Software Converts Laptops Worldwide into Earthquake Sensor Network

Tiny Flaws Can Be Tracked to Make Mass-Produced RFID Tags Unique and Unclonable

Concept Waterscraper Brings Monumental Architecture Into The Open Sea


Popular Mechanics-

6 Steps to Prepare Your Car For Long-Term Storage

Driving Hazards More Dangerous Than Unintended Acceleration

Budget Wars Spell Grim Future For F-22 and F-35 Planes

Lost Makes Looney-Tunes Sense With Dynamite Use

5 Most Notorious Recalls of All Time


Discover Magazine-

Spooky "Dark Flow" Tracked Deeper Into the Cosmos; No Word on What's Tugging at Galaxies

Vaccinating School Kids Can Protect the Whole "Herd" of Community Members

Einstein Proven Right (Again!) by the Movements of Galaxies

Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot Is Lost to a Watery Grave

Fly over Mars!

Beautifully Detailed Supercomputer Simulations


Scientific American-

6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope [Slide Show]

Consciousness-Raising: Kick-Starting the Brain's Dopamine System May Revive Some Vegetative Patients

Software behaving badly: Machine learning could resolve issues raised by multi-core processors

A New Spin on Conductivity: Electric Signals Can Propagate through an Insulator

Researchers Gain New Insights into the Mystery of Thalidomide-Caused Birth Defects

Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?

Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity

Few Studies Compare the Efficacy of Medical Treatments

Accents Trump Skin Color


Technology Review-

Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test

Faster Healing for Severe Fractures

Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight

Packing More into Lithium Batteries

Teaching an Old Polymer Memory Tricks

Here Come the High-Definition 3-D TVs


Ars Technica-

Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users

Hands-on with Sony's new PlayStation Move motion controller

Researchers get plastic to act totally metal

Pushing the speed limits of quantum memory

Nanotubes help create thermopower waves