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Best of the Week: Saturday, September 04, 2010

Sept • Oct Issue
How to Remake Life
Biomedicine | By Katherine Bourzac | 4 Comments
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
Sept • Oct Issue
Down the Tubes
Web | 9 Comments
How free streaming video threatens the porn industry.
A Simple Filter Could Make LCDs More Efficient
Materials | 1 Comment
The new approach wastes far less light, saving energy.
Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
Materials | 3 Comments
Products featuring memristors could appear in 2013.
New Court Ruling Could Cripple Stem-Cell Research
Biomedicine | 7 Comments
Once again, federal funding restrictions cast uncertainty over the field.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Video App Offers Guidance While You Shoot
By Tom Simonite | Communications
NudgeCam encourages good footage by tracking faces and assessing sound quality.
How Websites Make You Spill Your Secrets
By Erica Naone | Web
People divulge more sensitive information on sites that look less safe.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Sept • Oct Issue
To Market: Our Latest List of Cool New Products
By TR Editors
A Charger for the Smart Grid, Low-Cost Solar, Touch Screen Touch-up, Designing Genes, Disposable EEG, Boss on Wheels, Body Tracker, Into the Clouds, Watch the Hand, and Desktop Cancer Check.
Robotic Storm Tracker Gets a Big Test with Earl
By Brittany Sauser | Computing
The largest-ever storm monitoring mission is now gathering scientific data that was previously impossible to get.
Transplanting Gut Microbes to Treat Disease
By Karen Weintraub | Biomedicine | 2 Comments
Scientists examine new ways to manipulate the microorganisms within us.
Counting Down to Commercial Space Launches
By Stephen Cass | Business | 11 Comments
The next few years will see at least two new commercial spacecraft put into orbit.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Sept • Oct Issue
Living Data
By Tom Simonite | Computing | 1 Comment
The three-story-high Allosphere creates unique visualizations.
Tiny Needles to Fight Cancer
By Prachi Patel | Biomedicine
Researchers inject quantum dots into the skin using plastic microneedles, potentially providing a way to diagnose and treat diseases.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sept • Oct Issue
Cash for Infrastructure
By David Rotman | Business | 7 Comments
What happens after the federal stimulus funding for energy runs out?
Web iTunes? Don't Believe the Hype
By Erica Naone | Web | 2 Comments
Online music streaming services are altering the way people find, buy, and share songs--when will iTunes join the fun?
Bringing Cell-Phone Location-Sensing Indoors
By Tom Simonite | Communications | 4 Comments
App pinpoints people inside shops without requiring them to "check in."
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sept • Oct Issue
Taking Over a Car
By Erica Naone | Computing | 2 Comments
Researchers "break in" with software and a laptop.

Blogs

Chit 'n' Chat
by kfc | 09/04/2010
MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids
by Christopher Mims | 09/03/2010 | 2 Comments
How To Tell Who Is Influencing Whom in a Group Discussion
by kfc | 09/03/2010 | 7 Comments
NASA's Blueprint for New Space Technologies
by Stephen Cass | 09/02/2010 | 3 Comments

Special Reports

10 Emerging Technologies
10 Emerging Technologies
Our annual list of the emerging technologies that will have the biggest impact on our world.
Real-Time Search, Mobile 3-D, Engineered Stem Cells, Solar Fuel, Light-Trapping Photovoltaics, Social TV, Implantable Electronics­, Green Concrete, Dual-Action Antibodies, Cloud Programming.
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New technologies are changing the old ways of doing business. What are the innovations that organizations are exploring to better manage their operations and make them more competitive?
Follow the Smart Phones
Mining cell phone data could help target ads and rank local services.
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Fuels
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Fuels
Even with the push for renewable energy, demand for fossil fuels is still growing.

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Spotlight on Hurricane Season

Advanced Hurricane Forecasting
Scientists believe their new forecasting model will make more-accurate predictions, thereby saving lives.
By Brittany Sauser
A Model for Hurricane Evacuation
Software developed at MIT could save lives and money by improving hurricane planning.
By Brittany Sauser
The Gulf Coast: A Victim of Global Warming?
North Atlantic hurricanes are growing worse, but an MIT climatologist says it would be 'absurd' to attribute Katrina or Rita to long-term climate change.
By Wade Roush

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