Filed in archive Biology
by Eric Roston on October 29, 2006
I stopped thinking about deadly bacteria and started thinking about the tasty bacon halfway through a spinach salad tonight. The only acceptable reason to eat spinach is nutrition, and the only...
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The Associated Press this afternoon filed a story about David Walker, the head of the Government Accountability Office, who is running around the country making as much noise as he can about the...
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Filed in archive Biology
by Eric Roston on October 24, 2006
Technology, like the economy, is a wholly owned subsidiary of evolution. It's easy to forget. Certainly, human ingenuity has brought something entirely new to the planet. But it has done so by...
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What's holding back computing from its next quantum leap? It's not memory, that's for sure. We all have much more information stored in silicon than we do in carbon (Unless you count...
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Sure, reading lips is a useful trick, but not as cool as what Chuck Jorgensen is up to. The other day I promised to follow up on a 2.5 year-old NASA technology that picks up nerve signals sent from...
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PC Software and hardware invented by computer scientists at the University of Glasgow let users follow their noses when sorting through their digital photos. Their Olfoto system tags images with the...
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Corpus Callosum came across this intriguing Ames Research Center project from the Spring of 2004. NASA researchers were busy then affixing electrodes under subjects' chins and flanking the...
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Nikhil Swaminathan, at Seed reported out a story I've been thinking about this week: America swept the science Nobel Prizes last week, but how long can the U.S. keep it going? Today's senior...
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Colleagues over at Science Blogs are probing a topic near and dear, the state of science journalism. This profession strikes rather close to home, since I recently left my post as a science...
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Filed in archive Media
by Eric Roston on October 09, 2006
The other day, I used this space to write a news article. Perhaps you've seen it. It's not an Earth-shattering story. It might come to nothing. It can't compete with a possible North...
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Filed in archive Energy
by Eric Roston on October 07, 2006
Hearing a talk this morning about transforming coal into gasoline and other important products sent Philoneist back through time, to the New York Times of Sept. 12, 1948, when that technology had...
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Filed in archive Security
by Scott on October 05, 2006
From Smartspace, a tale of new levels of interactive infrastructure: Recently news came out that the city of Middlesbrough in northeast England have added a backchannel to its CCTV system, allowing...
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Filed in archive Energy
by Eric Roston on October 05, 2006
A NASCAR fuel specialist claims he has invented a way to make high-end gasoline from animal waste. Dean Gokel says he can produce 110 octane "pigoline"--gasoline made from hog waste--that is...
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Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Watch broke news earlier this week about Google's new, unbranded portal, SearchMash. The company stripped the site of any Google branding to gain a more...
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Filed in archive Space
by Scott on October 03, 2006
How many ways can you launch a satellite into space? Apparently you can add one more: New Scientist reports that the US Air Force is working with a private company, LaunchPoint Technologies of...
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Beside genomics, no field of modern science has exploded with more drama and anticipation than fullerene chemistry. Nor has any fallen short of such high expectations. The 1985 serendipitous discovery...
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