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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Scientists make bacteria behave like computers: http://
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news.osu.edu/archive/eggcarton.ht...
Now classified military
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is making inroads into the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dozens of students and faculty have occupied the administration building in a rare sit-in...
Beautifully photographed abandoned structures in Japan: http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/
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3.htm...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A better overview of perpendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of
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via paper...
With 99% confidence,
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ers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Here's a slightly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fisheye views: http://www.
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.att.com/areas/visualization/projects_software/topfish.htm...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Peep surgery - this one's a classic, still funny, and just in time for Easter: http://www.peep
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.org/surgery.htm...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A nanoscale "crossbar latch" from HP's Quantum Science
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labs may one day replace the transistor...
"Climate Change Desiccating the Planet,
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ers Conclude"...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Cornell
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ers figure out how to make plastic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to use petroleum to make plastics...
UCLA
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ers have made microscopic robots powered by living heart cells...
December 13 to 19, 2004
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ers find a new efficient way to convert water into hydrogen by using high temperature...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
New clear, flexible transistors may lead to clear, flexible gadgets: http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2004/11/
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ers_invent_clear_flexibl.htm...
"
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ers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers"...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software
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lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
November 15 to 21, 2004
U.S. pressure to try to ban international work in stem-cell
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may mean its end...
The latest design proposals for the latest high-tech Antarctica
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station...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Ever need to do a little
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yourself on the latest trends? Just go to Google News and search for a few key phrases, sorted by date. Here are four: "international survey", "scientifi...
October 18 to 24, 2004
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ers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that works "with a 95% accuracy rate"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
IBM scientists figure out how to make single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense storage media: http://www.
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.ibm.com/resources/news/20040909_samm.shtm...
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ers are studying net viruses using methods used to study human epidemics...
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ers are finding ways to reduce buckyball toxicity...
September 13 to 19, 2004
China's a new "hotbed of
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" too...
August 8 to 14, 2004
New algorithms allow projectors to project clearly on any surface, such as wallpaper and curtains: http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bimber/
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.ph...
The corporate ownership of computer technology is a large factor. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science
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July 26 to August 1, 2004
In the meantime, check it out. I've got searching, archives, topic filters, and an RSS feed for syndication. You can search for things like "nytimes 2003 tech", which searches for all technology item...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An LED
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breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An Antarctic scientific
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vessel gets equipped with two heavy-caliber machine guns to fight fish poaching off of Australia...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
Hebrew U.
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ers have devised a method that allows people to use a type of password that they don't have to consciously remember...
May 17 to 23, 2004
LANL
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ers have figured out how to use nanotechnology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%...
April 5 to 11, 2004
The McCollough Effect http://
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.lumeta.com/ches/me...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A material widely used in nanotechnology
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has been found to trigger organ damage in fish...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Heating trend in North Pacific baffles
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ers...
"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could make sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
February 23 to 29, 2004
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (online journals), with visuals. For future
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: How is the spreading of ideas like the transmission of virii? Can one reliably predict the mos...
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface
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. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
February 16 to 22, 2004
In Rat Brain Cells,
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ers Fin...
The Pentagon
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es ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
I can't wait to upgrade my memory! Cells-on-silicon breakthrough "
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ers... have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to th...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "
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ers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A California bill has been signed to invest $3.7 billion in the next four years in nanotech
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December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa
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er working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
September 8, 2003
Thanks to the human genome project,
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ers are pioneering the field of ionomics, the study of how genes regulate ions. That can lead to plants that soak up heavy metals.....
July 8, 2003
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box. The Center encourages such sit...