Flexible Touch Screen Made with Printed Graphene
• Technology ReviewSheets of atom-thick carbon could make displays that are super fast.
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A DIY Synthetic Aperture Radar System for $250
• PopSciUsing a garage-door opener, microwave parts and a cordless drill, Gregory Charvat made a working synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, the same kind of technology the military and NASA use.
Spacecraft to Skim Atmosphere of Saturn's Moon Titan
• Space.comNASA's Cassini spacecraft will get its best look at Saturn's biggest moon Titan this weekend, when it takes the deepest dip yet into the cloud-covered satellite's hazy atmosphere.
Trapping Uranium in Sea Water
• arclein'There are about 4.5 billion tons of dissolved uranium in the ocean. This is nearly 1000 times more than the terrestrial uranium sources in the western world,' says Orion Berryman, a member of the research team. 'Our work addresses the challenges
Writing Circuits on Graphene
• Technology ReviewThis simple trick to control graphene oxide's conductivity could pave the way for etching electronic circuits into the carbon material, an important advance toward high-speed, low-power, and potentially cheaper computer processors.
Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap
• PopSciA breakthrough in deformable liquid mirror technology could drastically reduce the price associated with adaptive optics, making the best in high-tech telescopes more widely available.
Government Fees Could Be Hindering the Rollout of American Solar Power
• PopSciA bureaucracy built for oil and gas leasing punishes the most efficient technology
San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Retailers to Display Radiation Output
• PopSciNever mind that the largest study ever conducted on the cell phone-cancer link found that your cell phone addiction isn't increasing your risk of cancer. San Francisco voted yesterday requiring that all cell phones sold in the city display the amount
World's First Solar Sail Photographed in Deep Space
• Space.comA tiny space camera has snapped amazing photos of the world's first solar sail spacecraft to voyage into deep space on an interplanetary mission for Japan.
A New Engineered Stealth Metamaterial is the Blackest Ever
• PopSciA new blacker-than-black metamaterial absorbs almost all the light that hits it, heralding a new breed of stealth technology.
U.S. Geologists Uncover Staggering $1 Trillion Cache of Unmined Mineral Resources in Afghanistan (Up
• PopSciWith huge quantities of rare-earth elements valuable to high-tech industries like lithium-ion battery production, will Afghanistan become the "Saudi Arabia" of the future?
The Inside Story of the MotoCzysz E1pc, the World's Most Advanced Electric Motorcycle
• PopSciOn the eve of its first race--at one of the toughest and most dangerous motorcycle racetracks in the world--we take an exclusive inside look at one man's quest to engineer the ultimate electric race bike
Microsoft's New Lens Promises 3-D TVs Sans Glasses
• Space.comEarly adopters will always exist, but this current wave of next-gen home-theater gear has more standing in its way than price. Who wants to wear those glasses?
Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests
• Space.comThe moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago.
Video: Scientists Watch Grass Grow, at the Cellular Scale
• PopSciWatching grass grow is way more interesting than you think. In an effort to understand cellular development in plants, a team of French scientists made a surprisingly exciting video animation of grass growing at the cellular scale.
Did Exploding Stars Shatter Life's Mirror?
• arcleinAs a result, Boyd suggests, when the magnetic field of a supernova remnant starts up, amino acids of one chirality end up with their nitrogen spins pointing along the magnetic field lines, away from the star at the north pole and towards it at the so
Deeper Impact
• arcleinON THE west coast of India, near the city of Mumbai, lies a tortured landscape. Faults score the ground, earthquakes are rife, and boiling water oozes up from below forming countless hot springs.
Entire Feb 2010 Issue of "American Behavioral Scientist" Devoted to State Crimes Against D
• coto2.wordpress.comThe prestigious 50-yr-old scholarly journal claims 9/11 was a State Crime Against Democracy (SCAD) typical of an ongoing, scientifically demonstrable pattern of many other such crimes. The entire issue lays out a new framework for further investigati
Hubble Catches Star's Motion
• arcleinBy exploiting the exquisite image quality of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and comparing two observations made ten years apart astronomers have, for the first time, managed to measure the tiny motions of several hundred young stars within the
Chupacabras History
• arclein-variously described by witnesses as standing between 4 and 5 feet tall; covered in greenish brown or blackish grey fur; spindly arms ending in claws; powerful hind legs enabling it to jump over fences; a
Sun May Soon Plunge Into Hot Cloud of Interstellar Gas
• arcleinA new analysis suggests that in about 100 years the sun could plunge into a hot cloud of interstellar gas. The change should have no impact on our planet, but it could boost the amount of deadly radiation in space, making missions more challenging f
EL Chupacabras
• arcleinOriginally reported in Puerto Rico, the news of this strange and scary creature spread like wildfire through the Americas. As the Spanish speaking media started to disseminate the first reports and detailed description of the creature, the reports ca
One in Three Chance of Quake in Fifty Years in NorthWest
• arclein"Perhaps more striking than the probability numbers is that we can now say that we have already gone longer without an earthquake than 75 percent of the known times between earthquakes in the last 10,000 years," Goldfinger said. "And 50 years from
General Ocean Warming Confirmed
• arcleinCombining multiple estimates of heat in the upper ocean - from the surface to about 610 meters (2,000 feet) down - the team found a strong multi-year warming trend throughout the world's ocean.
Katla, Oh Katla!
• arcleinThe earthquakes at the Katla volcano site appear to possibly be increasing in frequency as of this moment (time will tell however). Since May 17 there have been four earthquakes at or very near Katla, while a 5th just on the edge of the Myrdalsjokull
Video: An Artificial Butterfly Takes Flight
• WiredEngineers Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama of Harvard University and University of Tokyo, respectively, created the tiny butterfly to try to understand the biomechanics of butterfly flight.
Katla Warms Up
• arcleinHistorically, Katla has erupted after the eruption of it’s close neighbor, Eyjafjallajokull, which first erupted on April 14, 2010 and is ongoing at this moment. Magma channels beneath to the two volcanoes are thought to be interconnected. A Katla er
Evolution Creation Revisit
• arclein: "George, nobody I know in my profession believes it evolved. It was engineered by genius beyond genius, and such information could not have been written any other way. The paper and ink did not write the book! Knowing what we know, it is ridiculou
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain
• LiveScienceWomen aren't from Venus after all
Project aims to measure gravitational waves with giant lasers, free-falling cubes of gold
• News LinkIn Largest Science Experiment Ever, Three Spacecraft Will Swap Laser Fire Across 3 Million Miles
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