New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt – MIT News Office
“The new semi-solid flow batteries pioneered by Chiang and colleagues overcome this limitation, providing a 10-fold improvement in energy density over pre...
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ScienceShot: Why Wallabies Don’t Pass Methane Gas – ScienceNOW
“When cows digest food, they produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas, but when kangaroos chow down, their digestive tract is relatively methane-free. The...
Designing Biology at SXSW 2012?
I’ve been thinking of what to do at SXSW Interactive next year around Biology. Biology at SXSW? It’s not as far-fetched as you’d think. The tr...
Harmful Viruses Made of Beautiful Glass
Beautiful visualizations of viruses and bacteria, made in glass. The artists is exploring what these organisms really look like, since most visualization is in ...
Mendeley API in R – Carl Boettiger
“R is a widely used statistical software environment, and this should facilitate real-time statistical analysis of the rich amount of publication data ava...
The Rise of Backyard Biotech – Magazine – The Atlantic
“The small industries and biotech freelancers springing up are, in some ways, like the divisions of the old behemoth drug company, but connected only by t...
Bill Gates Funds Human Waste To Biofuel Project In Ghana | Fast Company
“Developing countries lack both clean water and clean energy sources. By converting soiled water into energy and clean water, a new project could wipe awa...
New gig at Netezza, an IBM company
Go figure. After I left Nokia, I thought I was done with Mega-Corporations. But an opportunity came by that seemed to have most of the things I need right now t...
Scattering Microscope Peers Into the Nanoscale – ScienceNOW
From the article: Researchers have come up with a new idea for a light microscope. They placed between the light source and the object a lens made from a slab o...
Satellite tracking will reveal turtle wanderings : Nature News
“By borrowing the tools of the manicurist’s trade, marine biologists have found a way of attaching satellite-tracking tags to turtle hatchlings. The...