“Nano” this and “nano” that: Responsible Nanotechnology provides a short, useful field guide to what the various nano-terms mean.
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Best science Web sites
It’s not my list: it’s Scientific American’s Science & Technology Web Awards. (Via Alone On A Boreal Stage.)
Da Vinci Project update
Alan Boyle reports from the Countdown to the X-Prize Cup private spaceflight symposium in New Mexico. Read the whole thing, but of particular interest in these parts is this update on the Da Vinci Project, Kindersley, Saskatchewan’s, best hope to become a spaceport: In the latter days of the X Prize competition, the Canadian Da …
How long ’til the hydrogen future?
General Motors says it hopes to have in place a viable fuel-cell powered car by 2010, with volume production possible two to three years later. As GM goes, so goes the nation…one hopes.
The Ig Nobels have been awarded!
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded. Looks like next week’s science column topic has been decided!
Return of the zeppelin…
to explore Titan? I love this idea! (Via Defense Tech.)
A thousand Cinderellas
My daughter loves Disney’s Cinderella. But the tale it tells is older than you might know.
The best science photos
Enjoy this gallery of the Best Science Photos of 2005, courtesy of National Geographic online.
Musical marine mammals
If one thing has set humans apart from animals, it has been our appreciation for—and ability to make—music. Music, at least for most of us, is distinguished from noise by certain characteristics. For one, it consists primarily of tones, as opposed to noise. Noises are sounds identified not by characteristics so much as their source—the …
The ideal e-book reader comes closer and closer…
…as Fujitsu debuts bendable colour e-paper.
Music encoded in 15th-century chapel
A musical code hidden in Scotland’s 15th-century Rosslyn Chapel has been decoded. Alas, the piece is “not particularly impressive” because William Sinclair, who designed the chapel, “was an architect, not a musician,” says composer Stuart Mitchell, who deciphered the code. It’s not the Holy Grail (which The Da Vinci Code apparently speculates might be hidden …
Decomposition algorithms for solving multistage stochastic mixed 0-1 problems
Every once in a while I run across a science press release I don’t understand at all. This is one of those times. I note that “This press release is also available in Spanish.” I suspect I’d understand that one just as well…and I don’t speak Spanish, beyond what one picks up from watching Dora …
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