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Blog - Mathematicians Develop Stress Test For Global Economy
If China suffers a recession, how badly will the rest of the world be hit? Mathematicians have used network theory to calculate the answer
One of the rapidly growing applications of network science is the simulation of change in the real world. Ecologists, for example, are acutely interested in food webs and how the extinction of one species can have dramatic consequences for others....
Blog - Greening the Fleet
ALTe Powertrain Technologies sets its sights on heavier green vehicles than the family sedan.
That consumers are increasingly adopting hybrids and electric vehicles is surely to be commended. Each time someone hangs up the key to a Humvee and picks up the key to a Prius, the world breathes a little easier. But you don't know the definition of "gas guzzler" until you've driven a Mack...
Blog - Twitter is in Denial About its Massive Spam Problem
Twitter doesn't seem to have enough incentive to eliminate auto-spawned accounts -- and that's a larger problem than most of us realize...
MONDAY 25. APRIL 2011
Blog - Data from Patient Social Network Refutes Lithium for ALS
PatientsLikeMe publishes the results of a patient-initiated trial in Nature Biotechnology.
PatientsLikeMe, a patient social networking and data collection site, has published a patient-driven study refuting a previous paper suggesting that lithium could help people with...
Blog - How Bacteria Could Generate Radio waves
The notion that bacteria can transmit radio waves is controversial. But physicists now say they know how it could be done
Can bacteria generate radio waves?...
Video - A Personalized Trip to the Grocery Store
Technology Review IT editor Erica Naone visits a Stop & Shop in Braintree, Massachusetts, to test Modiv Media’s new iPhone app. This lets consumers shop using a smart phone and serves up personalized offers when they do....
Blog - Are Horizontal Website Layouts the Wave of the Future?
New research says users don't scroll -- so why are we forcing them to?
When consuming content on the web, scrolling isn't natural -- that's what an...
SATURDAY 23. APRIL 2011
Blog - Spins 'n' Turns
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week
FRIDAY 22. APRIL 2011
Blog - Private Spacecrafts to Carry Humans Get NASA Funding
NASA awards $269 million to the commercial industry to carry its astronauts to orbit....
The Struggle to Spread the Minority Report Interface
Economics and user expectations are bigger hurdles than the technology.
In the 2002 film Minority Report, Tom Cruise's cop of the future made use of a mind-blowing computer interface—a holographic wall of images and data floating before him, which Cruise manipulated by donning special gloves and making sweeping gestures to call up, move, zoom, combine, and discard far more information...
THURSDAY 21. APRIL 2011
Blog - How To Spot a Rotating Black Hole
A newly discovered effect of general relativity means that rotating black holes should be visible to the current generation of telescopes, say astronomers...
WEDNESDAY 20. APRIL 2011
Blog - Pluto May Have Comet-Like Tail
The latest measurements of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere indicate that it may be shaped into a comet-like tail, say astronomers
Pluto's has a highly elliptical orbit that takes it inside the orbit of Neptune and then out into the distant icy reaches of the Solar System....
TUESDAY 19. APRIL 2011
Blog - Neuroscientists Reinvent Microphone Based On Mammalian Hearing System
The discovery of the way sound is amplified in the mammalian inner ear has allowed neuroscientists to redesign the microphone...
Video - 10 Emerging Technologies of 2011
Our annual list of the 10 emerging technologies that we think will have the greatest impact....
Video - TR10: Cloud Streaming
Bringing high-performance software to mobile devices
MONDAY 18. APRIL 2011
Blog - Like Europa, Titan May Have A Giant Subsurface Ocean
Titan's orbit and rate of rotation indicate that a huge ocean may lie beneath its icy surface
In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been a particular focus of attention because of its dense, complex atmosphere, its weather and its...
Blog - Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Now Crawling With Robots (Video)
Portable robots prove they finally have the range and power to be useful in a disaster...
SATURDAY 16. APRIL 2011
Blog - Waves 'n' Wobbles
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week
FRIDAY 15. APRIL 2011
Blog - How Solitons Explain The Puzzling Behaviour Of Phages
Bacterial viruses sometimes switch themselves off, a process that has always puzzled biologists. Now physicists think they know what's going on
Back in the 1970s, a Soviet physicist called Alexander Davydov came up with a remarkable theory to explain the way long molecular chains change shape....
THURSDAY 14. APRIL 2011
Blog - How Vesicles Compute With Chemical Cocktails
If small pouches of chemical cocktails are allowed to interact, they can also compute
One of the more exciting developments in computer science is the increased focus on exotic forms of computing. On this blog we've looked at some of them including...
WEDNESDAY 13. APRIL 2011
Blog - Paradoxical Decision-Making Explained By Quantum Theory
Conventional decision theory cannot explain why humans make paradoxical choices. But quantum probability theory can, say researchers
Suppose you receive the following questionnaire in an email:...
Blog - World's Largest Modular Data Center Replaces Old New York Times Printing Plant
The 830,000 square foot building in Edison, New Jersey is being re-appropriated for the post-print age...
TUESDAY 12. APRIL 2011
Blog - Round up: Amazon's Ad-Supported Kindle
Some analysts wonder why Google didn't try this first.
Amazon's new ad-supported Kindle, called Kindle with Special Offers, will retail for $114, or $25 less than Amazon's Wi-Fi only Kindle. The company...
Blog - Orbiting Dust Storm Could Remove Space Junk
The US Naval Research Laboratory is proposing to encircle the Earth with tungsten dust in an attempt to bring down dangerous space junk
Space junk is a serious problem, particularly in some orbits where debris is increasing at alarming rates....
MONDAY 11. APRIL 2011
Blog - Planets Could Orbit The Singularities Inside Black Holes
The discovery of stable orbits inside certain kinds of black hole implies that planets and perhaps even life could survive inside these weird objects, says one cosmologist
It's easy to imagine that black holes gobble up everything they encounter, consigning this stuff to eternal oblivion. Right?...