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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

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1. NewScientist: Smart Glass Blocks Heat When it is Hot Outside

Published on 8/10/2004

Glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room starts getting excessively warm has been developed by UK scientists....

2. WP: Key Hubble Instrument Needs Repair

Published on 8/10/2004

An instrument that helped the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope look at black holes, newly forming stars and far-off galaxies has broken down, and NASA said yesterday that it is looking at possible ways to fix it....

3. NYT: Swarm of Trapped High Energy Particles in Saturn's Rings

Published on 8/6/2004

In its first month orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has detected a new radiation belt in an unexpected place, its invisible swarm of trapped high-energy particles circling the planet inside the inner edge of Saturn's signature disk of luminous ring...

4. NewScientist: Stealth Wallpaper Foils Wireless Hackers

Published on 8/5/2004

A type of wallpaper that prevents Wi-Fi signals escaping from a building without blocking mobile phone signals has been developed by a British defence contractor. The technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining access to a secure network by using Wi-...

5. ScienceDaily: 'Plankton Power' Harnessed for Electricity

Published on 8/5/2004

NEWPORT, Ore. - During the past two years, scientists have successfully tapped the chemical reactions from decomposing organic matter on the ocean floor to create fuel cells that can provide low levels of electrical power for many months....

6. NewScientist: Mars Rovers Show Signs of Wear & Tear

Published on 8/5/2004

Both of the NASA rovers on Mars are beginning to show signs of wear and tear, having already performed for well more than double their design lifetimes. A glitch in a chip in Spirit's control system has stopped its main science instruments working, though...

7. ScienceDaily: A Super Conductivity Puzzle Revealed

Published on 8/4/2004

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The weird behavior of electrons tunneling across an atomically flat interface within a cuprate superconductor has defied explanation by theories of high-temperature superconductivity....

8. BBC: US Space Probe Blasts Off for Mercury

Published on 8/3/2004

The Mercury Messenger probe has launched successfully on its mission to carry out a detailed investigation of the first planet from the Sun. The spacecraft blasted off just before 0616 GMT on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US, aboard a Boeing De...

9. NewScientist: Early fish hit land to be better predators

Published on 8/3/2004

Our distant fishy ancestors first hauled themselves on to land in order to warm up in the Sun. So claims a team that says basking would have provided an energy boost that made the fish more agile in the water, improving their chances of snaring prey. It w...

10. ScienceDaily: NASA's Top Nine Wish List

Published on 8/2/2004

NASA has selected nine studies, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to investigate new ideas for future mission concepts within its Astronomical Search for Origins Program....

11. New Scientist: US to Halt Work on its Fusion Project

Published on 8/2/2004

Amidst a prolonged stalemate over where to build the world's largest nuclear fusion facility, the US is halting work on a homegrown fusion project. The decision caused concern among researchers at a fusion meeting earlier this week....

12. ScienceDaily: Ship Sinking Monster Waves Revealed

Published on 7/23/2004

Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'ro...

13. NewScientist: Evidence for Creation of Elusive Matter

Published on 7/23/2004

The strongest evidence yet for a long sought after form of matter in which particles that normally abhor each other pair up and flow together has been shown by Austrian researchers....

14. NewScientist: Mars Surface Water Lasted Eons

Published on 7/20/2004

Surface water on Mars existed across a significant span of time, not just for years but eons, suggest new findings made by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity....

15. ScienceDaily: A Big Leap Forward for Tissue and Cell Design

Published on 7/20/2004

University of Toronto researchers have discovered a key mechanism in tissue formation that could have implications for tissue engineering, as well as for diseases such as spina bifida and cancer....

16. WT: A Hotter Burning Sun is Warming the Earth, say Europeans

Published on 7/19/2004

The sun is burning hotter than usual, offering a possible explanation for global warming that needs to be weighed when proceeding with expensive efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, Swiss and German scientists say....

17. Seattle PI: Nanotech is Wall Street's latest Darling

Published on 7/14/2004

NEW YORK -- The chief executive of Nano-Tex LLC warned about the mounting hype around his company and other nanotechnology startups at a recent investor conference. But the first question from the audience showed how his message had been digested....

18. NewScientist: Human Like Software is New Chess Champ

Published on 7/13/2004

A new world computer chess champion was crowned at the 2004 finals in Israel on Monday. The new champ is the latest version of a particularly aggressive and human-like software program called Junior....

19. ScienceDaily: Nano lense may Make Optical Computers Viable

Published on 7/13/2004

July 8, 2004 -- An ultrafine nanometre 'drill' could be used to make some of the tiniest lenses imaginable and may also allow scientists to harness light for use in optical computers of the future, thanks to research published today....

20. Guardian: Zapper Stops Cars, Would End Police Chases

Published on 7/12/2004

A hi-tech device that can bring speeding cars to a halt at the flick of a switch is set to become the latest weapon in the fight against crime....

21. WP: Testing Einstein's Gravity Theory from Space

Published on 7/12/2004

First they had to convince themselves that the idea was not ridiculous. Then they had to figure out how to do it. Then they had to invent the parts. Then they had to put them in space. And now, 40 years and $700 million later, they are just about ready to...

22. NewScientist: Sun may Have Blown Off Martian Atmosphere

Published on 7/12/2004

computer simulations suggest they also blew off part of the planet's upper atmosphere, an effect that may have helped erode the planet's surface water over 3.5 billion years....

23. NewScientist: Controlable Nano-diode Created

Published on 7/9/2004

The most efficient diode ever made using carbon nanotubes has been unveiled, marking another step towards practical atomic electronics. Carbon nanotubes - structures resembling rolled up cages made from interlinking carbon atoms - are extremely strong an...

24. NASA: The Sun's Biggest Blast Wave Travels our Solar System

Published on 7/9/2004

It was with this unprecedented scientific fleet that scientists observed the events that took place in late October and November when the Sun unleashed the most powerful solar flares ever detected....

25. NewScientist: Digital Tombstone Messages

Published on 7/8/2004

Inventors usually try to come up with things that will change people's lives. But Robert Barrows is hoping to make an impact after their death. He is patenting video-equipped tombstones to let cemetery visitors watch messages from the dead....

26. NewScientist: Recent Super-fit Bird Flu, Evolved in China

Published on 7/8/2004

The bird flu that ravaged east Asian birds earlier in 2004, and killed 23 people, is a super-fit mutant that evolved in southern China, reveal scientists. It emerged in ducks and chickens over the past two years, they say....

27. BBC: Eco-friendly 'Magic Ink' Attracts Metal for Circuits

Published on 7/7/2004

An eco-friendly way of "growing" metal for circuitry or antennas has been developed by UK firm QinetiQ. The metal printing technique replaces conventional copper etching by using a special ink which attracts metals....

28. NewScientist: Images Rock Previous Theories about Titan

Published on 7/7/2004

Cassini's VIMS instrument has analysed infrared light from Titan's surface which shows that the bright patches are rich in hydrocarbons and the dark areas are relatively pure ice. It may be that the huge bright region called Xanadu is not a mountain range...

29. Daily Emerald: Breakthrough May Allow Nano Circuits

Published on 7/7/2004

Gerd Woehrle, a chemistry graduate student who worked with Hutchison to develop the technique, said this tool kit might allow people to build nano-scale circuits, something no one has yet been able to accomplish....

30. NewScientist: Robots that Change Shape to Move

Published on 7/6/2004

A gaggle of miniature robots are falling over themselves in a Japanese lab. But they are not malfunctioning: it is the way they have been designed to move....

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