Pages

Friday, December 07, 2012

Science of the Week, 12/7/12

It's been a busy week on the blog. I hope you found something of interest--and that you find these ScienceBlog articles stimulating as well.

New radio telescope could save world buildings

Synthetics could eliminate U.S. need for crude oil, create "new economy"

An algorithm for speech-based emotion classification

 Search for life suggests solar systems more habitable than ours

NASA: No definitive detection of Martian organics

World's smallest wrench puts a new twist on microscopic manipulation

Bismuth, quantum computing qubits a perfect match

Mental illness and smarts tied to ancient accident

Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics on the way

America's energy future: coal, gas, solar, water, wind, or what?

That's it for this week. See you on Monday!







2 comments:

  1. So synthetic fuel would take 30 to 40 years to get going? Which I suppose is good because by then we'll be out of oil.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I wonder how high the price of gas will go before everyone switches to the new fuel.

    ReplyDelete