Technology

Open Source For New Hydrogen Powered Car

Open Source For New Hydrogen Powered Car A new hydrogen powered car unveiled in the UK is to be developed using open source methods. The Riversimple Urban car was unveiled in public for the first time at Somerset House in London on 16th June 2009.  Image ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 16 2009 - 10:02pm

Hybrid Natural And Synthetic Fiber Ideal Mix For Nerve Repair

The clothing industry discovered decades ago that a mix of natural and synthetic fibers, like taking cotton and adding polyester, can make clothing that's soft, breathable and wrinkle free. Now researchers at the University of Washington are using the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 9:50am

3-D Rapid Prototyping Your Future Replacement Organ

Organ donation would be a lot less variable if they could be grown in the lab and a more effective way to build plastic scaffolds on which new tissues and even whole organs might be grown in the laboratory is being developed by an international collaborati ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2009 - 9:52am

David Pogue, Bionic Man

David Pogue's secrets to his productivity: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 19 2009 - 4:21pm

Stem Cell Division Filmed Live

Stem cell research is a major challenge for medicine. Recently, asymmetric cell division was filmed in vivo in fruit fly germinal stem cells for the first time by the team of Jean-René Huynh at the Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot), no ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2009 - 1:38pm

Energy and Organic Farming

One of the pleasures of working at Reading University is being able to walk across to our Agriculture Department at lunchtime and join the table talk.  Today, they were discussing the following press release. Rising energy costs give an important role for ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 24 2009 - 10:40am

The Meaning Of Tolerance

The Meaning Of Tolerance Tolerance, the ability to 'live with' or 'put up with' something has wide-ranging applications in engineering, and is strongly parallel to the notion of error bars 1 in science. I use the terms 'tolerance& ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 29 2009 - 1:55pm

Poken (not Pokémon)

I spent last week in Boston, attending the Open Mobile Alliance meeting. Whenever one goes to meetings, one does the dance of the business card exchange. Because it was my first OMA meeting, I had more of it going on than usual, as I met a lot of people f ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Jun 30 2009 - 1:47pm

Mother's maiden name, revisited

New Scientist reports on a study that shows how bad “secret questions” are at protecting your accounts: What’s your secret question? Your mother’s maiden name? Your first pet? ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 7 2009 - 8:00am

The Daytime Astronomer Collects Programming Languages

Time for a job-hunting question.  Which programming languages can you work with?  It's not the same question as which languages you know, and can be a surprisingly hard question to answer, particularly when you're job-hunting and the issue comes ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 30 2009 - 8:28pm