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Wired
September 22, 2008
Mark Anderson |
Charles Ferguson: Beware of New, Easy-to-Make Nukes Ferguson has been tracking the progress of a technology known as laser isotope separation. Still experimental, it requires only a warehouse-sized space and the kind of lasers within reach of a high school science geek.   |
Popular Mechanics
September 26, 2008
S.E. Kramer |
Eagle Eye's Paranoid Thrills Ditch Real R&D for Fake Spy Tech In this weekend's new thriller Eagle Eye, the lives of Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are hijacked by, well, a voice -- an ominous and omniscient villainess that's equal parts Inspector Gadget and GPS voiceover. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Graphene racks up the charge Researchers in the US have used graphene, sheets of carbon that are just one atom thick, to improve the performance of energy-storage devices which could supersede batteries in electric cars. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2008 |
Engineers to Quake-Proof Cal Stadium on Free-Floating Blocks Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. |
Chemistry World
September 23, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles Hide Behind Protein Cloak Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Candice Chan |
15th Anniversary: Big Dog and Robo Rat Join the Bots We Love In January 2006, Robert Capps presented the 50 best robots ever. Can we make that 54? In the past two years, these upstarts have maneuvered their way into our geeky little hearts. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Vince Beiser |
Flash and Awe: A Better Stun Grenade Protects the Good Guys Sandia National laboratories has designed a stun grenade that creates a flash of light and a boom of up to 170 decibels, but does not create a blast pressure wave. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Patrick Di Justo |
The Mohs Scale of Hardness, From Talc to Diamonds Hardness values for various materials. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Bob Parks |
Power Ascender: Ballsy Tool Yanks People, Equipment up Walls Atlas Power Ascender rapidly pulls people and their gear up the side of a building or canyon. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Philip E. Ross |
Engineer Named MacArthur Fellow for Work on Wireless Power and Self-focusing Lasers MIT engineer Marin Soljacic found a way to recharge portable devices wirelessly |
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