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

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

Science and Technology Links for the Week of February 8th

Popular Science-

Superinsulating Aerogels Arrive on Home Insulation Market At Last

Sony's New Internal Wireless Tech Snips Wires Inside Your Gadgets

By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints

New Armored Wall System Assembles Like Legos, Could Replace Sandbags in Afghanistan

Wonder Material Graphene Becomes Lighting for Future Devices and Homes

California Utilities to Store Off-Peak Power In Blocks of Ice

Discover Magazine-

How Henrietta Lacks's Cells Became Immortal and Changed Medical Science

Looks like the Sun is in its teens again

SDO launches on February 9

In a First, Ground-Based Telescope Measures Alien Planet's Atmosphere

Dew-Spangled Spider Webs Could Inspire High-Tech Water Collection

Scientific American-

The Advantages of Being Helpless

City Dwellers Drive Deforestation in 21st Century

CERN Gears Up Its Computers for More Atom Smashing

Moving forward with electronic health records

Better Broadband: New Regulatory Rules Could Change the Way Americans Get Online

Popular Mechanics-

Toyota Cites Brake Software Problems in New Prius Recall

The MV-22 Osprey Finds Purpose In Disaster Relief

The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere

Solar-Powered Circuits Charge by Sunlight in Real-Time

The Science Behind 7 Winter Olympic Events

Technology Review-

Micro Solar Cells Handle More Intense Sunlight

U.S. Solar Market to Double in the Next Year

Graphene Transistors that Can Work at Blistering Speeds

Biofuels from Saltwater Crops

"Melting" Drywall Keeps Rooms Cool

Ars Technica-

The lost souls of telecommunications history

Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 7

AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops

Contextualizing the copyright debate: reward vs. creativity

Royalty-free codec still needed despite no-cost h264 license

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 10/19/09

Popular Science-

Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes

iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze

Video: Play Dungeons and Dragons on Microsoft's Surface Table

Apple's Magic Mouse Mates a Multitouch Trackpad With Traditional Pointer

A Hammer Is No Match For a Flexible OLED Display

New Neurological Evidence That the Internet Makes People Smarter

Ten Young Geniuses Shaking Up Science Today

Popular Mechanics-

4 Things the Barnes & Noble Nook Does Right, and 5 It Does Wrong

The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec

Exclusive Interview With Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto

PM Takes Project Natal For A Test Drive (With Video!)

New Drill Bit for F-35 Planes has Bonded Home-Grown Diamonds

Discover Magazine-

Who Killed All Those Honeybees? We Did

How Invaders Break Through the Brain's Great Wall

Is Alzheimer's Like a Strange Form of Brain Cancer?

Moon Plume Detected! NASA's Lunar Crash Wasn't a Flop, After All

The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts

Scientific American-

Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception

Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House

How much are coral ecosystems worth? Try $172 billion--A year

Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn

Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes

It's all Chinese to me: Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese

Technology Review-

Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab

Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells

Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses

Dye-Sensitized Solar to Go

Intelligence Explained - Actually, this particular article is about the use of MRI with a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map out the circuits of the brain's white matter, and how that circuitry might correspond to intelligence.

Ars Technica-

Windows 7 is here

LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks

Magic Mouse: Oh my God-it's full of capacitive sensors! - This relates to Apples new multi-touch mouse for the Mac.

30 years of failure: the username/password combination

DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down

Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser

Permanence in motion: electrons rock around the clock