Saturday July 31st 2010

Environment

More Efficient Solar Power for Batteries

University of southern California experts show us a more powerful use of graphene solar panels. Is it possible to imagine people powering their cellular phone or music/video device while jogging on a sunny day? A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that may have great potential for a new breed of solar cells. In a paper recently published in [...]

Space

Can the Pioneer Anomaly Be »

by Richard Obousy Physicist Richard Obousy here takes a look at an intriguing new paper by Mike [...]


Statites: Hovering Over the »

Robert Forward’s Indistinguishable from Magic is a genial and absorbing read, a collection of [...]


New Planets Highlight Orbital »

We’re learning a lot more about how planets interact with each other gravitationally. ‘Resonance’ [...]


Economics

The Role of Investment, Industry »

In these figures we include some of the main features of international economic relations to foster economic development. Foreign direct investment is of [Read More]


Technology

LG on the 3D Laptop »

3D is now obviously what every major tech gadget producer is aiming at with everything [...]


Teaching kids »

My friend Paul Marlier has a pretty fun gig at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. His [...]


LG on the 3D Laptop »

3D is now obviously what every major tech gadget producer is aiming at with everything [...]


Climate

Be wary of “Mission »

Be wary of “Mission Accomplished” claims for BP disaster clean up

Back in early May, I interviewed experts on dispersants and oil spill clean up and wrote “Out of Sight: BP’s dispersants are toxic — but not as toxic as dispersed oil.” Chemically dispersing oil spills “solves the political problem of visible oil but [Read More]

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