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| Eric on Energy |
| Weather change |
| June 30, 2011 |
| If you want a
clear explanation of the relationship between climate change and weather,
check out Global Warming and the Science of Extreme Weather on Scientific
American's site. |
| Eric on Energy |
| Stern looking at even sterner situation |
| June 30, 2011 |
| Nicholas Stern,
the former World Bank top economist who made waves five years ago
with the Stern Review that called for investments equal to 1% of global
GDP... |
| Papers of Note |
| Molecular chains promise ultra-high capacity storage |
| June 23, 2011 |
| Arrange
a chain of single molecules in the right way, and you have a magnetic
bit a thousand times smaller than the bits in today’s memory and disk
drives. Influence of structure on exchange strength and relaxation barrier in a series of FeIIReIV(CN)2 single-chain magnets, Chemical Science |
| Stories Elsewhere |
| Nanoparticles communicate to swarm tumors |
| June 21, 2011 |
| Nanodrug
Swarms Use The Human Body's Biocommunications System to Coordinate
Their Attack, Popular Science MIT’s New Nanoparticles Tag Team Cancer Cells, Gizmodo Two Types of Nanoparticles Work Together to Target Tumors, Discover (Source: Nature Materials paper Nanoparticles that communicate in vivo to amplify tumour targeting) |
| Papers of Note |
| Nano printing produces invisibility cloak material |
| June 5, 2011 |
| Come up with
a way to stamp an "ink" of the right materials and microscopic
structure, and you can create large, flexible invisibility cloaks. Large-area flexible 3D optical negative index metamaterial formed by nanotransfer printing, Nature Nanotechnology |
| Research Watch |
| Quantum computing makes some noise |
| June 3, 2011 |
| Lockheed Martin's
purchase of a $10 million computer from D-Wave Systems is making headlines. |
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can still be found in the work of a small number of people -- or even
a single person -- working at their own pace on their own questions,
pursuing things that interest them. " - Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University |
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for good or ill. Technology has been abused in this way throughout
the ages from gunpowder to atomic bombs." - John Pendry, Imperial College London |
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