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FRIDAY 14. JANUARY 2011
Space tourist flights have resumed—buy now to fly in 2013. If you ever wanted to take a trip to the International Space Station, or fly on board a rocket into orbit, now's your chance. Space Adventures, the only commercial company to have sent...
The way the insects' nervous systems form provides insights for how to structure networks. Fruit flies have long been a favorite research subject for biologists, but now they're unlocking secrets for computer scientists as well. Specifically, researchers used insights into how a fruit fly's nervous system develops to design a new algorithm that could prove useful for wireless...
Asleep or awake, brain activity is delicately balanced between inactivity and runaway catastrophe, according to a new study In recent years, neuroscientists have noticed a remarkable pattern in the way neurons fire in brain samples. This activity seems to occur in avalanches which vary in size with a distribution that is scale invariant....
THURSDAY 13. JANUARY 2011
The first data from one of the most important space observatories is set to change the way we understand at the Universe It's a big week for astronomers, who have an exciting new dataset to play with courtesy of the Planck Space Observatory, which is currently surveying the skies while orbiting the L2 Lagrangian Point some 1.5 million kilometres from Earth....
WEDNESDAY 12. JANUARY 2011
Several new electric cars and plug-in were hybrids unveiled at Detroit autoshow and CES....
They lead people neither to make healthier lifestyle choices nor to order more medical tests. Ever since direct-to-consumer genetic tests—which analyze a set of genetic markers across an individual's genome in order to predict his or her risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, prostate cancer, and other common diseases—became available...
In Western Europe, military bows became obsolete during the C16th as firearms evolved. But in China, guns and bows coexisted for almost a millennium. Now one scientist thinks he knows why Here's a puzzle for students of weaponry....
Technology Review explores the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, looking for the big trends and small wonders amidst this year’s crop of tablets, robots, concept cars, and other new products....
TUESDAY 11. JANUARY 2011
How will Verizon's network stand up under iPhone usage? Apple's iPhone has already redefined the computing and phone industries, and forced abrupt changes in strategy from companies like Google and Microsoft. Now it will become...
Graphite and diamond have similar free energies but converting one into the other is famously hard. Now materials scientists think they know why Converting graphite into diamond has been a long held dream of alchemists the world over. In the modern era, materials scientists have puzzled over this process because it's hard to work out why the conversion is so hard....
MONDAY 10. JANUARY 2011
A biosignature common to both life on Earth and digital life could help to spot extra terrestrial organisms, say computer scientists In the early 1960s, the independent scientist James Lovelock worked as a consultant for NASA developing ways to analyse extraterrestrial atmospheres. This work led him to the dramatic conclusion that life would leave an indelible stamp on the chemical make up of any...
The bulky bezels framing of the screens on today's tablets are set to shrink....
How Google's Voice Search is getting so good....
SATURDAY 8. JANUARY 2011
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week...
FRIDAY 7. JANUARY 2011
New mobile phone software recognizes your friends in real time....
NASA tests a new power system....
A new estimate of the amount of energy needed to visit the stars suggests we won't have enough for at least another two centuries How soon could humanity launch a mission to the stars? That's the question considered today by Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project and founder of the Tau Zero Foundation which supports the science of interstellar...
THURSDAY 6. JANUARY 2011
Say goodbye the one-size-fits-all approach to interacting with computers. The mouse and keyboard have been how nearly everyone has interacted with computers since Apple and Microsoft brought them to the mainstream in the mid 1980s. There have been periodic attempts to replace these devices, mainly on the grounds that because they are so old, there must be something better by now....
ProAm collaborations are changing the nature of astronomy; and anybody can take part Amateur astronomy has a long history of discovery. In fact, it wasn't so long ago that the amateurs had a better time of it than the professionals....
WEDNESDAY 5. JANUARY 2011
The first clear AR glasses could help make the technology more popular....
Intel focuses on the living room over the server room. At...
Using a plasma sheath as a giant radio receiver should solve the communication problems that bedevil hypersonic planes and re-entering spacecraft, say Russian scientists When spacecraft return to Earth, one of the tensest parts of the mission is the radio black out that occurs as the vehicle re-enters the atmosphere. Travelling at hypersonic speeds of between Mach 8 and 15, the spacecraft heats...
TUESDAY 4. JANUARY 2011
Highlights from the Physics arXiv over the holiday period...
MONDAY 3. JANUARY 2011
Facebook's valuation climbs ever higher as a few rich investors get a slice of the blockbuster social network. A new set of investments in Facebook from Goldman Sachs and the Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies today pushed the company's valuation to a stunning $50 billion. The Financial Times...