Science and Technology Links for Week of February 1st

Popular Science-

Ultra-Strong Biomimetic Adhesive Could Allow Human Wall-Walking, Ceiling-Dancing

Bayonet Skills to be Omitted from Basic Training for Modern Soldiers

NASA Budget: Constellation Officially Canned, But The Deep-Space Future Is Bright

French Scientists Build First Transistor That Mimics Brain Connections

Spray-On 'Liquid Glass' Protects Surfaces From Just About Anything

Discover Magazine-

The Intellectual Property Fight That Could Kill Millions

The Lancet Retracts 1998 Paper That Linked Vaccinations to Autism

National Ignition Facility Warm-Up Successful. Next Step: Fusion Tests?

NASA Jet Studies Haiti's Fault Lines for Signs of Further Trouble

Will Genetically Modified Eucalyptus Trees Transform Southern Forests?

Scientfic American-

Over the Top: Data Shows "Green" Roofs Could Cool Urban Heat Islands and Boost Water Conservation

Less than a pretty face: Brain scans show how a disorder leads individuals to perceive themselves as ugly

Can a Brain Scan Predict a Broken Promise?

Microsoft's Hands-Free Answer to the Nintendo Wii

Thinking Outside the Boxes: Robotic Pallet-Stacking Challenge Aims to Create an Automation Benchmark for Industry

Popular Mechanics-

Behind the Scenes of Splice: Interviews with the Director and VFX Supervisor

Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection

How to Fall 35,000 Feet-And Survive

The Panama Canal Gets a New Lane (With Gallery!)

3D Sports TV Debuts With British Football Match

Technology Review-

What's Inside the iPad's Chip?

Roll-to-Roll Plastic Displays

Flexible Sheets Capture Energy from Movement

Skin Cells Turned into Brain Cells

A Safer Way to Coat Long-Lasting Solar Cells

Ars Technica-

No rules: Internet security a Hobbesian "state of nature"

High-energy physics has a case of the Higgs

Levitating magnet could make fusion faster and cheaper

How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K

Insanely great? Ars reacts to the Apple iPad

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

Science and Technology Links for the week of 10/05/09

Ars Technica

Microsoft Research demoes five multitouch mice

CCDs, fiber optics take home Physics Nobel Prize

Fusion 3.0 gains Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Aero support

97 percent of Intel testers recommend Windows 7

Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 hits RTM

Obama bans "texting while driving" for 4.5M govt workers

Technology Review

How Neutrinos Could Revolutionize Communications with Submarines

Flash Forward for Mobile

Startup That Builds Biological Parts

Light-Switched Drug Delivery

Behind the Big Apple's Data Dump

How Fruit Flies Execute In-Flight Turns

Time Lens Speeds Optical Data

Scientific American

Astronomers Discover Solar System's Largest Planetary Ring Yet around Saturn

Abruptly Forgotten: Working Memory Disappears in a Blink

Unraveling the Ribosome: Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Modelers of Cells' Protein-Maker [Updated]

New Vaccine May Immunize Addicts from Cocaine's Pleasurable Effects

Pirate Economics?: Captain Hook Meets Adam Smith

Climate change may mean slower winds

Flashy Fungi: Researchers Still in the Dark over Glowing Jungle Mushrooms

Popular Mechanics

10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Microsoft Natal - This looks very, very promising, and if it works anything like the demo, I might consider getting an X-Box 360 in the future just for its sake alone. But in the meantime, let me get in a plug for the Wiimote's new accessory, the WiiMotion Plus. I recently purchased it, and the control on this is extraordinary.

MythBusters Q&A: New Season Filled With Bullets, MPG Tests and Duct Tape

What Does a Beer Taste Like After the Singularity?

Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System

The Science Behind The Invention of Lying: Hollywood Fact vs. Fiction

Bonus website pointed to by an article at this site: Will It Blend? If you ever wondered what would happen if you put consumer electronics in the blender, this is the site for you.

Discover Magazine

Boosting a Brain Wave Makes People Move Slow-and Bad at Video Games

Would You Pay $39.99 for an Energy-Efficient Light Bulb?

Brain-Saving, Mind-Blowing, Hi-Tech Medical Imaging

Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?

I Didn't Sin-It Was My Brain

When Less Information Is More - Relates to Genomics and informing people of genetic abnormalities

The 9 Industries That Will Be Most Screwed by Global Warming - Pardon the French, the gallery's interesting.

Popular Science

The World's First Image of an Entire Sunspot's Structure

Physicist Looks to Build a Kilometer-Long Cannon for Space Launches

Google Working on "Smart Charging" Software for Electric Cars

Electron Microscopes Powered by Quantum Mechanics Could See Through Living Cells

Breeding Super-Hygienic Bees to Take the Offensive in Colony Collapse Fight