Chemists Discover Freezing Point of Supercooled Water
• KFC via TechnologyReview.comScientists have long known that water can stay liquid at temperatures well below zero. Now they've discovered exactly how low they can go
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Automakers Give Flywheels a Spin
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comhe automakers Volvo and Jaguar are testing the possibility of using flywheels instead of batteries in hybrid electric vehicles to aid acceleration and help engines operate more efficiently.
Nanostructures Could Result In Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comChinese startup develops new, low-cost ways to improve the properties of lithium-iron phosphate, a leading electrode material.
Tomorrow's Transistor, Built Atom by Atom
• Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.comApplied Materials, the world's leading supplier of manufacturing equipment to chipmakers, has announced a new system for making one of the most critical layers of the transistors found in logic circuits.
Fraunhofer Lab Debuts Healthful Ice Cream Made from Flowers Instead of Milk
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comIt’s been brutally hot here in the Midwest, with heat indices hovering in the 110-112 range for the past few days and signs pointing to another heat wave this weekend. So this new flower-based ice cream from Fraunhofer Labs sounds mighty appealing.
New Printable Antenna Can Harvest Ambient Energy To Power Small Electronics
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comA new ultra-wideband antenna printed on paper or plastic can harvest ambient energy, enabling wireless sensors to tap into electromagnetic currents in the air around them.
New iPhone Software Beams FaceTime Video Calls to TV
• Christina Bonnington via WIRED.comFaceTiming into your iPhone (or iPad 2) is great, but sometimes it’d be nice to see your friend or loved one on a bit of a larger screen.
Netflix Price-Hike Backlash: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• Eric Blattberg via WIRED.comNetflix is enduring a world of hate for its price hike, which ups the cost for a combined DVD-rental and streaming plan by 60 percent.
Five Insane Vehicles That Go Like Hell
• WIRED.comThere are vehicles that help you get around every day—the sensible sedan, the commuter ferry, the sturdy city bike. And then there are machines that double down on technology and design to get from one place to another faster than you can imagine.
Five Insane Vehicles That Go Like Hell
• WIRED.comThere are vehicles that help you get around every day—the sensible sedan, the commuter ferry, the sturdy city bike. And then there are machines that double down on technology and design to get from one place to another faster than you can imagine.
Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways
• Ryan Singel via WIRED.comThe end of the internet comes not with a bang or a procession of four lolcats of the apocalypse, but just with two blinking lights on a modem.
Dietary Supplements Face Overkill - FDA Approved Drugs Have a License To Kill
• LewRockwell.comMost of the involved parties in the dietary supplement industry still don’t know what hit them. Some believe they will dutifully comply with newly penned FDA guidelines, not recognizing this document will doom a growing industry in a dying economy.
Switch Lighting Announces Unique LED Replacement Lamps
• arcleinPhilips 60W replacement lamp that is currently on the market. Sharenow noted that the 12W Philips design utilizes 18 LEDs and outputs 830 lm. The 75W replacement pictured here consumes 16W and uses only 10 LEDs to output 1150 lm. Of
For Athletes’ Peak Performance, Age Is Everything
• Erik Malinowski via WIRED.comAthletic performance obviously decreases as people get older and their bodies wear down physically, but new data compiled by French researchers sheds light on exactly when these declines might start showing up, at least in some sporting disciplines.
Google+ Poised To Surpass 10 Million Users In First Two Weeks?
• Eric Blattberg via WIRED.comGoogle’s latest social networking venture, Google+, has proven wildly popular. One estimate by Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen pegs the service at 9.5 million users as of Tuesday morning.
Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics
• Jason Tanz via WIRED.comFor 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environment and understand its place within it.
Volvo Packs More Buckshot in Its Electric Shotgun
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.comThe Swedish automaker’s already wowed us with the C30 Electric, a car that it really ought to go ahead and sell already. Volvo keeps telling us we’ll see the C30 electric (pictured) in 2013. Then it wheeled out the diesel-electric V60 Plug-In Hybrid.
New Spinning Heat Sink Design Could Trim Energy Use and Unleash Processing Power
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comHeat exchanger technology--the cooling machinery that ferries internal heat away from your PC, your computer, your air conditioner, and other appliances--hasn’t changed too terribly much for decades.
Tinkerer Emulates Iron Man With Real-Life, Palm-Mounted Laser Weapon
• Andrew Rosenblum via PopSci.comOn a rainy weekend last year, Patrick Priebe, a German lab technician and Iron Man fanatic who rewatches the film and its sequel every week, decided to build a compact yet powerful laser inspired by Tony Stark’s repulsor-beam weapon.
Solar Panels Can Be 3-D Printed Onto Regular Paper, Folded 1,000 Times
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comEngineers at MIT are tinkering with all sorts of advanced solar power technology, like self-assembling solar cells, virus-structured cells and an artificial leaf system that mimics photosynthesis. Their latest project can be printed on a regular shee
The Power Couple of Pyrotechnics Explains the Perfect "Wall of Fire"
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThey learned to handle explosives in the U.S. Army and they met while skydiving in Wisconsin (he was flying, she was jumping). Now they travel the country blowing stuff up, creating dazzling pyrotechnic displays for airshows that are second to none.
American Soccer Robots Dominate at the World RoboCup 2011
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comIn the finale of RoboCup 2011, two Virginia Tech robots took top honors in the adult-size and child-size categories. The full-size humanoid CHARLI-2, making its public debut at RoboCup, won the adult-size robot soccer match
USDA Won't Regulate Genetically Modified Grass, Sparking Superweed Worries
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comA new genetically engineered grass variant won’t be subject to federal regulation, because it was modified with a gene gun rather than bacteria, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Last Drops: How to Bridge the Gap Between Oil and Green Energy
• Paul Roberts via PopSci.comOil won't run the world forever, but it will for the next few decades--so how do we get from here to the next energy economy?
Brain Simulation Advance
• arcleinTheir study demonstrates conclusively that phase-change materials can store and process information simultaneously. It also shows experimentally for the first time that they can perform general-purpose computing operations, such as addition, subtract
Orca Ears Inspire New Hydrophone
• arcleinStanford researchers have developed a highly sensitive underwater microphone that can capture the whole range of ocean sounds, from the equivalent of a soft whisper in a library to an explosion of a ton of TNT just 60 feet away - a range of approxima
Stem Cell Breakthrough Raises Hope of Ending Hunt for Bone Marrow
• arcleinIt’s been a 50-year-old dream, and a 23-year hunt, but the immortal mother cell behind the billions of new blood cells humans make every day has at last been discovered – raising the possibility of growing a new blood system for any patient who needs
Extra Sleep Boosts Basketball Players' Prowess
• Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.comVarsity basketball players who tried to get 10 hours of sleep per night for five to seven weeks could sprint faster, react faster, and sink more free throws and three-pointers.
Cadillac Station Wagon Out-Muscles Your Muscle Car
• Chuck Squatriglia viaEach one of Cadillac’s lineup of CTS-V flagships are the automotive equivalent of a 9-pound hammer, vehicles of such brutal power and felonious fuel economy they make gearheads cheer, environmentalists scream and small children cry.
Poor 3-D TV Sales? Panasonic Blames Hollywood
• Christina Bonnington via WIRED.comDespite Hollywood’s continued onslaught of 3-D films hitting the big screen, not many people are buying 3-D TVs. Whose fault is that? Panasonic’s marketing director Andrew Denham blames Hollywood for making such bad 3-D movies.
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