Engineering & Physics
SCIAM Physics
- 8 of the Most Extreme Places in the Solar System [Slide Show]
- Rummaging for a Final Theory: Can a 1960s Approach Unify Gravity with the Rest of Physics?
- Sounds like art fraud: Acoustic waves give clues to paintings' provenance
- Cooking For Geeks: Jeff Potter on Experimenting in the Kitchen
- Nearby asteroids are a diverse bunch in terms of reflectivity and composition
- Physics of free kicks: The hidden advantage of long-distance soccer shots
- Shaky Ground: Can Seismologists Be Charged with a Crime for Not Predicting Deadly Quakes?
- Engineering students happily deafened by Mwanga metalworkers
- Shades of "Gray Literature": How Much IPCC Reform Is Needed?
- Which Ray?: Conflicting Data on High-Energy Cosmic Rays Leave Their Source–or Sources–Unresolved
- Lower Cost Lighting May Not Lower Cost
- Reading between the Lines: How We See Hidden Objects
- Harness lightning for energy, thanks to high humidity?
- Cubicle, Sweet Cubicle: The Best Ways to Make Office Spaces Not So Bad (preview)
- Distant astrophysical beacons reveal masses of the solar system's planets
Quantum Computing
- Contemplating the end of the world, math, mystery and other things
- The Paradox of Time: Why It Can't Stop, But Must (preview)
- Laying Odds on the Apocalypse: Experts Assess Doomsday (preview)
- Filming the Invisible in 4D: New Microscopy Makes Movies of Nanoscale Objects in Action (preview)
- Crystal memory allows efficient storage of quantum information in light
- A Quarter Century of Recreational Mathematics, by Martin Gardner
- 12 Events That Will Change Everything (preview)
- Recommended: The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change: A Complete Visual Guide
- One for All: Five Entangled Photons Collectively Choose a Path to Follow
- "Quantum Microphone" Puts Visible Object in Two Places at Once
- Quantum Effects Exploited to Generate Random Numbers
- From Eternity to Here: Sean M. Carroll's Quest to Understand Time
- Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs [Slide Show]
- Light Improvement: Could Quantum Dots Boost the Quality of Cell Phone Pix?
- Macro-Weirdness: "Quantum Microphone" Puts Naked-Eye Object in 2 Places at Once
Engineering News
- Sutherland and Berglass to keynote USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium
- Carnegie Mellon receives funding to create new program studying environmental impact of nanotechnology
- Plant nutrients from wastewater
- Researchers at UC Riverside find solution to cell death problem vexing stem cell research
- The digital film reel
- What can a New Zealand reptile tell us about false teeth?
- GOCE gravity mission back in action
- Scientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission
- 'Intelligent' bed combats pressure sores
- U of C scientist offers better ways to engineer Earth's climate to prevent dangerous global warming
- New and unique tool eases the process of finding article reviewers
- Melting rate of ice caps in Greenland and Western Antarctica lower than expected
- Using buildings for flood protection
- Three-quarters of new solar systems worldwide were installed in the EU in 2009
- The brain speaks
Science Now
- Probation for Biologist Who Admitted to Misconduct
- Ontario Scientists Retain Legislative Independence From Engineers
- Stem Cell Case Has 'Immediate and Devastating' Impact, Says Research Group
- ScienceShot: Solid Gold, Thanks to Bacteria
- Podcast: Early Feasts, Mama's Boys, and an 'Impossible' Soccer Goal
- Creating Clearer Climate Computer Codes
- Hodder Cleans House at Famed Çatalhöyük Dig
- A New Tool for Tracking Oil Spills
- Obama Advisers Call for Greater Emphasis on STEM Education
- Deforestation Rate Continues to Plunge in Brazil
- Forget Mice, Elephants Really Hate Ants
- How Fish Oil Fights Inflammation
- 'Impossible' Soccer Goal Explained by New Twist on Curveball Physics
- NASA Experts on Extreme Environments on Scene in Chile
- JAMA Editor Moves On
Science Insider
- Roundup 3/15: The Hunt Is On Edition
- Amid Fraud Allegations, Researchers Say Vaccine Science Solid
- Mars Mission (On Earth) Survives Budget Squeeze, Faces Fake Flares
- Israel Steps Up Efforts to Bring Back Expat Scientists
- Roundup 3/12: Go Fish Edition
- Spain Turns to Science for Stimulus
- Scientists Case on Background Check Reaches High Court
- MIT's Suresh Tapped to Be NSF Director
- Roundup 3/11: Like a Snake Edition
- NIST Looks to Reorganize Its Labs, Top Management
- Should Social Scientists Help the U.S. Fight Terror?
- Half a Million for Gene Sequencers
- Fusion Delayed: ITER Start Date Moved Again
- Roundup 3/10: Do the Math Edition
- Review of Climate Panel Aims for Summer Release