"The scientists admit that a commercial reactor is a long way off, but they believe the laser approach to producing fusion shows great promise." Got to be a better move than swapping oil dep
"RFID sure seems like it would be a cool thing to play with, right? Now you can, without being a technical genius." Arphids to play with in the comfort of your own home.
"A nanomachine proposed by a famous scientist 140 years ago has finally seen the light of day, thanks to boffins at the University of Edinburgh." Old-school high tech.
"British publisher Penguin may have the answer -- a Web-based, collaborative novel that can be written, edited or read by anyone, anywhere thanks to "wiki" software..." This could
"The Anarchist U is a volunteer-run collective which organizes a variety of courses on arts and sciences... it is open, non-hierarchic and questions the roles of teachers and students." Inte
"...it fits in with the current understanding I’m coming to regarding SL: it needs to be treated both as experimental ground for communications, and as the biggest digital art installation in t
"Jane Poynter spent two years in the world's most famous artificial environment. Her new book, The Human Experiment, throws open the Biosphere 2 airlock to the world -- the good science, the hard
"It is symbolically fitting that Norfolk - birthplace of Thomas Paine, acclaimed by some as the patron saint of the internet - should be thrust into this pioneering role."
"The scientists called the device "the first of its kind in operation in the world", but the report did not specify what tests it had passed." Progress or propaganda?
"If you drive east out of Bogatá, Colombia into the eastern llanos of the Vichada province...you will come across a small village of roughly 200 people." Worldchanging reports on that rarest
Recent research has revealed that a standard cell-viability test may be causing carbon-nanotubes to “fake” toxicity." It's not just about the question, it's about how you ask it.
Chinese scientists hope that growing plants in the novel conditions of orbit will lead to providential mutations, such as increased hardiness or yield. Crazy idea, but it might just work.
This guy is sick of cooking and washing dishes. So, in the name of science, he's eating a diet of Monkey Chow, a pellet food designed for 'primate nutrition', and blogging the experience.
Dontclick.it explores a clickfree environment. It wants to explore how and what changes for the user and the interface once you can't rely on the habit of clicking. An experimental interface by LXFX.
Href cloud is a combination of a web site and a crawler. Once you follow a link from a certain page to href cloud, the href cloud will go back to the site you came from to check for the metadate of th