Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comA study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half.
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Solar-Panel Giant Poised to Get Even Bigger
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comSolar Frontier, which opened the world's largest CIGS solar-panel plant, makes plans for more factories.
Digital Technology Preserving Living Languages
• arcleinNow schools and area universities are using digital technology to promote Anishinaabemowin, with a web site, http://www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/ that includes traditional poems put to music, the informal anthem of the American Indian movement, and a transl
Myth of Eight Hours of Sleep
• arcleinIt took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
Clinical Trials for Whip Worm Therapy
• arcleinBased on this hygiene hypothesis, researchers at the University of Iowa wanted to find a safe parasite—one that wasn't known to cause infection or illness in humans—for therapeutic purposes. This type of treatment is known as helminthic treatment, o
Hitches emerge as culprit in 'faster-than-light' particle
• AFPScientists who last year found particles that appeared to break the Universe's speed limit are looking at two technical issues that could have skewed the controversial finding, CERN said Thursday.
Spray on Antennas
• arcleinThe spray-on antenna was originally conceived when Chamtech was contacted by the US Military to help them create a conforming antenna for special ops since traditional antenna systems were bulky and hard to hide from the enemy. Chamtech came up with
Project Avatar For Combat
• arcleinhey should be able to perform all the duties expected of a human soldier, including 'room clearing, sentry control [and] combat casualty recovery,' all via remote control. The means in which this man-machine mind-meld are to be achieved are uncl
Nevada Sets Regulations for Google's Driverless Cars
• arcleinNevada already legalized driverless cars back in June of last year, but there was no a legal framework in place for companies to test their vehicles. Now, Google and other technology firms have the green light to get on the road.
Method to MRI Batteries Developed
• arclein"The work clearly shows how we can use the method to identify where lithium deposits form on metal electrodes. The resolution is not yet where we want it to be and we would like to extend the method to much larger batteries, but the information that
Autism Related Brain Differences at Six Months
• arclein), found significant differences in brain development starting at age 6 months in high-risk infants who later develop autism, compared to high-risk infants who did not de
MinION - $900 usb-powered DNA sequencer on sale this year
• www.gizmag.comThe MinION is the size of a USB memory stick, and obtains both power and computer analysis from a normal laptop computer
Russians regenerate flowering plant from 30,000-year-old frozen burrow of Ice Age squirrel
• Washington PostIt was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pi
Future zoos could have living mammoths and dinosaurs
• Terrence AymIf geneticists and research teams across the world have their way it won't be many years until families are gaping in wonder and exclaiming with amazement at new exhibits of animals that last roamed the Earth thousands, even millions, of years ago.
Analysis: As solar panels eclipsed, installers in limelight
• By Matt DailyA steep decline in solar panel prices is helping solar installers attract new capital, a trend likely to trigger consolidation in the fragmented industry and drive down the cost of putting the renewable energy system on rooftops.
Scientists teach computers to assess psychiatric risk
• By Kate KellandComputer programs can be taught to select between brain scans of healthy young people and scans showing adolescents who are at higher risk of developing mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, scientists said Thursday.
LEDs that Burn 10 Times Brighter
•By Phil McKenna
McSweeney's and the Stanford MRI Lab Host the World's First Love Competition
•McSweeney's, purveyor of pretty books, magazines, and short-form web comedy, teamed up with the Stanford MRI Lab for a short film, featured in McSweeney's newest Wholphin DVD quarterly, and it is appropriately themed for a certain pink-hued February
Turning People Into Plastic
• Amber WilliamsAt Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Company in northern China, people turn other people into plastic. Plastination is a four-step process during which polymers replace water and fat molecules in biological specimens.
Watch Kink Instability Corkscrew a Jet of Super-Hot Argon Gas
• Clay DillowInstability begets instability. At least, that’s the lesson learned from a couple of Caltech researchers studying the way magnetic field lines break and reconnect.
Report: Medical breakthroughs give hope for humans to live to 150
• Terrence AymDuring the last decade age researchers have made one breakthrough after another and many now see some of the current generation of babies reaching 150 years old. Eradication of some diseases and new understanding of such traditional killers as heart
Cancer Breath Test
• arcleinurther reported that lung cancer subtype (small cell, adenocarcinoma, and squamous cell) is identified by the breath exam. The Cleveland Clinic has now commenced testing of
Hovering Easy if Top Heavy
• arcleinTop-heavy structures are more likely to maintain their balance while hovering in the air than are those that bear a lower center of gravity, researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics ha
Graphene Electronics Moves to Three Dimensions
• arcleinDr Leonid Ponomarenko, who spearheaded the experimental effort, said: "We have proved a conceptually new approach to graphene electronics. Our transistors already work pretty well. I believe they can be improved much further, scaled down to nanometr
Electronic Function Engineered Inside Optical Cable
• arcleinWe have managed to build the junction - the active boundary where all the electronic action takes place - right into the fibre. Moreover, while conventional chip fabrication requires multimillion dollar clean room facilities, our process can be perfo
Brain Capacity Limits Exponential Online Data Growth
• arcleinScientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information. These findings have just
Cats Make You Mental
• arcleinThe parasite, which is excreted by cats in their feces, is called Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii or Toxo for short) and is the microbe that causes toxoplasmosis—the reason pregnant women are told to avoid cats’ litter boxes. Since the 1920s, doctors ha
A Silver Bullet for Cancer?
• arcleintests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects.
Tiniest Telecommunications Laser Ever Made, 200 Nanometers Wide
• www.popsci.comLasers are getting smaller and more powerful — earlier this month, we saw the first-ever atomic scale laser, and now researchers are reporting the smallest telecommunications-frequency laser ever built.
UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains
• www.popsci.comA group of forward-thinking military scientists want to plug soldiers’ weapons directly into their brains, and this time DARPA is nowhere to be found.
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