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science
December 20 to 31, 2005
Detailed, richly colored scientific photography: http://www.eyeof
science
.de/eos2/index2.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Scientists make bacteria behave like computers: http://www.live
science
.com/technology/050428_bacteria_computer.htm...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Suspended animation gets one step closer to reality: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
science
/nature/4469793.st...
Loss of habitat and food has led to a steep decline in the Monarch butterfly population: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/
science
/04/20/monarch.butterfly/index.htm...
Rethinking The Everyday Things http://www.abc.net.au/
science
/news/stories/s341719.ht...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming popular among college students, who use it to concentrate and stay awake for long periods at a time: http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/
science
/2005/8847.htm...
April 4 to 10, 2005
With 99% confidence, researchers 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
1,360 scientists from 95 countries say that two-thirds of the world's resources are "used up" in a four-year $24 million U.N.-sponsored survey...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Towards fundamentalism - "IMAX theaters Reject
science
Shows under Religious Pressure"...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Learning From Nature http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
science
/nature/4319739.st...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Monkeys are willing to "pay" more to see pictures of alpha males and females, and to ignore subordinates: http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2005/01/050128213439.ht...
Genetically modified plants are proving to be an excellent way to clean up toxic soils: http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2005/01/050131224504.ht...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A nanoscale "crossbar latch" from HP's Quantum
science
Research labs may one day replace the transistor...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Scientists have succeeded in turning stem cells into nerve cells. This may allow cures for those with nervous system injuries and diseases...
Thanks to rampant over-prescription of antibiotics for over half of U.S. patients, antibiotics may be useless in 50 years: http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2005/01/050111162856.ht...
January 17 to 23, 2005
UK scientists find the natural human-produced chemicals that repel mosquitos: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=5&u=/nm/20050120/sc_nm/
science
_mosquito_d...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living cells - the line between life and not-life is starting to get pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk
science
". Not a good thing for our pill-popping society...
December 13 to 19, 2004
New airship satellites can provide cheaper wireless coverage: http://www.economist.com/
science
/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=342302...
December 6 to 12, 2004
A nice introduction to randomness and why it's so important to
science
...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The price of a gallon - how expensive is that liquid? http://www.cockeyed.com/
science
/gallon/liquid.htm...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Controversial thoughts on energy alternatives. The point is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic - everything affects everything else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
October 18 to 24, 2004
"World Living Beyond Its Environmental Means": http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=
science
News&storyID=6567491§ion=new...
"Scientists are developing a pill to reduce the terror of a traumatic event": http://www.acfnewsource.org/
science
/memory_pill.htm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A rapid body temperature cooling device may help improve athletic performance. My friend at IDEO helped design this a few years ago: http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2004/10/041006085310.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The state-of-the-art in scientific visualization: http://www.
science
mag.org/sciext/vis2004/show/slide1.shtm...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The newest revolution in aeronautical design-the fanwing, a quiet "sky barge": http://news.independent.co.uk/world/
science
_technology/story.jsp?story=55861...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A new material - "Metal Rubber": http://www.popsci.com/popsci/
science
/article/0,12543,676853,00.htm...
The first(?) chip to use ultrawideband technology: http://economist.com/
science
/displayStory.cfm?story_id=308447...
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
research...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
About Singapore's new world-class bio
science
empire, including "Biopolis", a $300 million center for molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and nanotech...
About the first truly effective shark repellent, A-2: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/30/international1353EDT0604.DTL&type=scienc...
Where do whales go when they die? A newly discovered worm lacks a mouth, stomach, legs, and eyes and lives on deep-sea whale bones...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
A biological engineering plan to end human aging: http://
science
.slashdot.org/
science
/04/06/02/1329252.shtml?tid=134&tid=19...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Will false teeth be a thing of the past? Successful experiments have regrown teeth from stem cells: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040504/TEETH04/TP
science
...
I forgot to add this last week - killer whales are getting louder in response to the din of whale-watching boats: http://www.
science
news.org/articles/20040501/fob2.as...
A new circular fishing hook snags fish but not turtles: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/
science
/05/03/hook.turtles.reut/index.htm...
Climate change is killing off forests across the West at an "unprecedented rate": http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/
science
/05/04/thewarming.west.ap/index.htm...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Like the razor and the toothbrush, the yo-yo is getting more and more seriously high-tech: http://www.
science
news.org/articles/20040417/bob9.as...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Here's a project that removes toxins from mining sites with crops and makes a profit from gold harvested with the process: http://www.christian
science
monitor.com/2004/0415/p17s02-sten.htm...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"U.S. students shun computer
science
s"...
A bicycle tire that never needs inflating: http://www.jinjapan.org/trends/
science
/sci040322.html...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Anti-vandal technology has been installed that detects spray can sounds. Of course, once the above device is marketed, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Hit Song
science
(HSS) analyses music for its "hit" potential, comparing a song's qualities to millions of others...
Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it shows how musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5 million songs: http://www.hitsong
science
.com/media/nbc.mo...
February 23 to 29, 2004
A nice overview from Popular
science
on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Exposure To Low-level Magnetic Fields Causes DNA Damage http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2004/02/040219075606.ht...
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer
science
background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
The Pentagon researches 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...
Brain Fingerprinting http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
science
/nature/3495433.st...
February 9 to 15, 2004
For Valentine's Day, another fascinating "
science
and love" article - "Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people"...
February 2 to 8, 2004
"A New Kind of
science
", a 900-page book on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for free...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"Scientist Create New Form of Matter": http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=3&u=/nm/20040128/sc_nm/
science
_matter_d...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"U.S. Teens More Overweight Than Youth In 14 Other Countries" http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2004/01/040109071838.ht...
December 22 to 28, 2003
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can make vehicles up to 50 percent more efficient and is being tested on a city bus in the Netherlands: http://www.rnw.nl/
science
/html/031215wheel.htm...
December 15 to 21, 2003
* August 18: Reported in the Honolulu Advertiser by Jan TenBruggencate, the Advertiser
science
Writer...
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new
science
/tech this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
A new unexplainable sub-atomic particle has been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
science
/nature/3277579.st...
This comes from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world's hotbeds of cutting-edge
science
. Folks from the Pentagon visited them just earlier this month...
The first genetically engineered pet goes on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (called GloFish)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Some popular news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces): http://www.usatoday.com/news/
science
/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.ht...
November 3 to 9, 2003
A few medical breakthroughs last week you may have read about... "Liquid drano for arteries": http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2003/11/031104064022.ht...
October 27, 2003
More evidence that the Arctic region is warming up... http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/
science
/10/24/arctic.warming.ap/index.htm...
October 14, 2003
"Software Brings Cellular Capacity To Rural Communities" http://www.
science
daily.com/releases/2003/10/031007060144.ht...
October 6, 2003
"Study: Orangutans may die out in 20 years" http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/
science
/09/30/orangutans.threatened.ap/index.htm...
September 30, 2003
Powers of 10 http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/
science
opticsu/powersof10...
September 22, 2003
The worst jobs in
science
. Really...
"'Pristine' Amazon boasted large cities" http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/
science
/09/20/amazon.civilization.reut/index.htm...
August 25, 2003
2003 Ozone Hole May Be Record Size, Australia Says http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=
science
News&storyID=332016...
July 21, 2003
Animals can be pretty intelligent (watch the crow movie): http://www.
science
mag.org/feature/data/crow/index.htm...