The state of blogging report by technorati says around 1.5 million blogs updated in the last week, 900k in the last 24 hours…
Bloggers have been at it an average of three years and are collectively creating close to one million posts every day. Blogs have representation in top-10 web site lists across all [...]
The Royal Society, Britain’s oldest scientific academy, has published a series of papers in its Philosophical Transactions outlining some of the options for intervening directly in the planet’s climate. Some of these are pretty scary.
Richard Branson, a British businessman, is already offering a prize of $25m for a workable way of removing a [...]
If you wake up tomorrow, then the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland didn’t create a black hole that swallowed the earth. Its collisions will generate seven times the energy of its most powerful rival, the Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.
Not to worry,
… the actual experiments that could [...]
Progress on the invisibility cloak… Two teams lead by Xiang Zhang at Berkeley manufactured material that will bend waves close to the visible spectrum.
One approach used nanometre-scale stacks of silver and magnesium fluoride in a “fishnet” structure, while another made use of nanowires made of silver… Light is neither absorbed nor reflected by [...]
A paper in Nature outlines a new alternative to transistors for memory applications – the “memristor” – created by a team at Hewlett-Packard. BBC NEWS reports:
The devices were proposed 40 years ago but have only recently been fabricated… They have already been used to build novel transistors – tiny switches that are the building blocks [...]
In an effort to rescue the descendents of women with mitochondrial genetic defects, scientists at Newcastle University have created a human embryo with mitochondria from a second mother. From BBC NEWS:
The embryos have been created using DNA from a man and two women in lab tests…
The embryos then began to develop normally, but were destroyed [...]
A few items from over the holidays to flesh out the state of the credit markets.First, a great run-down from BBC has all the graphics in once place – interactive even.Krugman notes that things are going badly, blaming an administration and Fed blinded by ideology.
There was a definite Hirohito feel to the explanation Ben Bernanke, [...]