May

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10 Funny and Strange Ways to Destroy Earth According to LiveScience

May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

LiveScience: Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth. ‘A host of methods for ending the planet as we know it, presented by Sam Hughes. Some of them are very strange: gobbled up by strangelets, destroyed by vacuum energy detonation or eaten by von Neumann machines. Hurled into the Sun is the Top 1. See the whole [...]

May

28

High-Strength Ultra-Light Carbon Nanotubes Aerogels

May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Penn Physicists Develop a Carbon Nanotube Aeroegel Optimizing Strength, Shape and Conductivity. ‘Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density aerogels made from carbon nanotubes, CNTs, that are capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight. The new material also combines the strength and ultra-light, heat-insulating properties of aerogels with the electrical conductivity [...]

May

27

First Naturally Occurring Material with a Negative Refractive Index

May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Negative refraction gets natural. ‘Physicists in Germany claim to have found the first naturally occurring material that has a negative, rather than a positive, refractive index. The material - a metallic ferromagnet - is very different from all other negative-refractive-index materials known to date, which have had structures that have been artificially engineered in the [...]

May

27

Predicting Cognitive Abilities with Finger Measurements

May 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

See Those Fingers? Do the Math. ‘Boys with the longest ring fingers relative to their index fingers tend to excel in math, according to a new study. In girls, shorter ring fingers predict better verbal skills. The link, according to the researchers, is that testosterone levels in the womb influence both finger length and brain [...]

May

27

Forbes: 15 Things We Wish Someone Would Invent

May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Revolutionaries: 15 Things We Wish Someone Would Invent. ‘Technology proceeds at such a breakneck pace that sometimes it feels like we’re rocketing into science fiction territory: Animal cloning, unmanned aircraft and space tourism are all recent realities.
For some, though, invention isn’t moving fast enough. Take the 95 CEOs and other executives we interviewed over the [...]

May

25

The Wrecking of British Science According to Kroto

May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Wrecking of British Science. ‘If the world’s future lies in scientists’ hands, the answers are unlikely to come from the UK unless we reverse decades of political neglect, argues Nobel laureate Harry Kroto.
There is food for thought in the fact that, after a decade of Labour government and at the same moment that the [...]

May

21

Nanoglue Based on Self-Assembling Nanoscale Chains

May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Inexpensive “Nanoglue” Can Bond Nearly Anything Together. ‘Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don’t normally stick together. The team’s adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could impact everything from next-generation computer chip manufacturing to energy production.
Less than a nanometer — or one billionth of a [...]

May

18

Generating Hydrogen With a Liquid Aluminum-Gallium Alloy

May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells. ‘A Purdue University engineer has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, and the technique could be used to replace gasoline.
The method makes it unnecessary to store or transport [...]

May

16

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2007 Announced

May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2007. The winners for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2007, celebrating the best books published for the first time in English during 2006, were announced at an award ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 15 May 2007.Congratulations to the winners of the Royal Society Prizes for Science [...]

May

16

Mobile Digital Laboratory (MDL) for Education from HP and Saltire Scientific

May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

HP to Co-develop Mobile Digital Laboratory for Education Market (PDF). ‘HP and Saltire Scientific are teaming to develop for the education market the Mobile Digital Laboratory (MDL) – an easy-to-use, high-performance solution that allows secondary school mathematics and science students to collect and analyze real world data in real time.
The MDL is ideal for mathematics [...]

May

15

All Species in One Place: The Encyclopedia of Life

May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Encyclopedia of Life. ‘Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. [...]

May

15

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). ‘Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global “biodiversity commons”.
The [...]

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