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Internet: The fastest teacher? - Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

MRI scans of older people show major differences between searchers and non-searchers. After seven hours of Internet experience, those differences disappear. Honest? Could changing the brain be this easy?

Driving while blabbing - Thursday, September 17th, 2009

How many dead? Research and real-life experience prove that people die when drivers pick up the cellphone. Even worse: texting on the road!

Nanotech - Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Adding nanotubes makes a stronger plastic, but adding several nano-structures greatly increases the benefit, according to a new study from India. Read about the frontier of material science.

New battery technology allows fast charge and discharge - Thursday, March 12th, 2009

By tweaking the conventional recipe, researchers have sped up electricity movement in a lithium battery by 100X. Want to charge your electric car in minutes or your phone in seconds?

Economic stimulus = just pouring concrete? - Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Obama decides that current and new grant applications at the National Institutes of Health are an effective economic stimulus. People get jobs. Inventions get invented. What’s not to like?

Green as a garbage dump? Waste rots, makes energy… - Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Decay is part of life, and death. When garbage decays in a landfill, or manure decays in a tank, the result is methane. Is this natural gas a problem — or an opportunity?

Reading the brain; controlling the muscles - Thursday, October 16th, 2008

A single neuron in the brain may deliver enough information to control a muscle. These results could eventually help bypass the spinal cord, allowing paralyzed people to control their own muscles.

Running short of copper, phosphorus, rare elements - Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Without phosphorus fertilizer, millions would starve. A shortage of copper — and electricity — could short-circuit our economy. Without many obscure elements, we would not have LCDs and cell phones. Should we act to prevent future shortages?

Electric eye learns from animal eye! - Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Lenses cannot project a perfect image on the flat back of a camera, so images are distorted at the edges. A revolutionary camera solves this problem by curving the light detector.

Laser: The invention that just won’t quit! - Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Lasers read and write CDs and DVDs, form the heart of fiber-optics, and are being used in climate prediction, chemical identification, high-tech manufacturing, even the battle against influenza.

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