2008 Posts
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April 2008
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 13: Study challenges notion of ‘pandemic’ flu
- 12: Eating Breakfast Keeps Teenagers Leaner
- 12: Inspirational Engineer
- 11: NASA Science Website
- 10: Mutualism – Inter-species Cooperation
- 10: Self-assembling Nanofibers Heal Spinal Cords in Mice
- 09: Computer Science Unplugged
- 08: Clay Versus MRSA Superbug
- 08: $25 Million to Princeton for Engineering Education
- 07: First Lungless Frog Found (0)
- 07: Engineers Without Borders
- 06: Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown
- 06: More Efficient Water Heaters
- 06: Coopers Rock State Forest, West Virginia
- 05: False Teeth For Cats
- 05: Scientists Witness the Birth of a Brain Cell
- 05: Aztec Math
- 04: Bacteria Survive On All Antibiotic Diet
- 04: FIRST Robotics in Minnesota
- 04: Vega Science Lectures: Feynman and More
- 03: ‘Refrigerator’ Without Electricity
- 03: High Fructose Corn Syrup is Not Natural Food
- 02: Orzel: What Everyone Should Know About Science
- 02: Royal Ant Genes
- 01: Androgenesis
- 01: Cancer Deaths Increasing, Death Rate Decreasing
March 2008
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Babbage Difference Engine In Lego
- 31: Don’t Eat What Doesn’t Rot
- 30: Warning on Two Cholesterol Drugs
- 30: Ethanol Scam
- 29: Appetite for Destruction
- 28: Thompson and Tits share 2008 Abel Prize (Math)
- 28: Squid Materials Engineering
- 28: Propeller Innovation by Engineering Students
- 27: Solar Energy: Economics, Government and Technology
- 27: Secrets of Spider Silk’s Strength
- 26: Mutation Rate and Evolution
- 26: Jobs Increasing for German Engineers
- 25: 2008 Intel Science Talent Search
- 25: Ballast-free Ships
- 25: Engineering Education Online Seminars
- 24: Science Serving Society – Speech Austalian Minister for Innovation
- 23: 6 Inch Bat Plane
- 22: Students Create “Disappearing” Nail Polish
- 22: Scientific American Frontiers Webcasts
- 21: Giant Star Fish and More in Antarctica
- 21: Google Summer of Code Projects
- 20: Radiation Tolerant Bacteria
- 20: $10 Million X Prize for 100 MPG Car
- 20: NASA You Have a Problem
- 19: Explaining the Missing Antimatter
- 19: Baby Sand Dollars Clone Themselves When They Sense Danger
- 18: Photos by Fritz the Cat
- 18: Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace
- 17: Drug Price Crisis
- 17: NCAA Basketball Challenge 2008
- 16: Contractor Warned NYC About Crane
- 16: Bird Brain Language Research
- 15: Grade School Engineering
- 15: Peru Meteorite Provides Puzzles
- 15: HMMI Nurtures Nation’s Best Early Career Scientists
- 14: Antarctica’s Unique Meteorites
- 14: Technology and Fun in the Classroom
- 13: Secret Life of Microbes
- 13: Grand Flood
- 13: #1 Engineering Blog
- 12: Dolphin Rescues Beached Whales
- 12: Dino-Era Feathers Found Encased in Amber
- 11: Easy File Sync Over the Internet
- 11: Google Tech Webcasts #4
- 11: Home Repairs
- 10: Deep-Sea Denizen Inspires New Polymers
- 10: Seeking Solar Supremacy
- 10: Dr. Tara Smith
- 09: Photos: Rocky Gap State Park, Maryland
- 09: Scientists and Engineers in Congress
- 08: Visitors to the Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog
- 08: Google Summer of Code 2008
- 08: Laws of Physics May Need a Revision
- 07: Programmers
- 07: Vaccine For Strep Infections
- 07: Honda Engineering
- 06: Antarctic Fish “Hibernate” in Winter
- 06: 2008 Draper Prize for Engineering
- 05: Phun Physics
- 04: Flint and Steel: What Causes the Sparks?
- 04: BlimpBot Foiled by Air Conditioning
- 03: Better Higher Education Will Change Lives
- 03: Programmers at Work
- 02: Exercise to Reduce Fatigue
- 02: Clouds Alive With Bacteria
- 02: Pynchonverse Science
- 01: Placebo Effect
February 2008
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: Home Engineering: Physical Gmail Notifier
- 29: Entrepreneurial and Innovative Engineers
- 29: Scientists Reconsider Autism
- 28: Robin Williams Saves the Day
- 28: Global Wind Power Installed Capacity
- 28: Collegiate Inventors Competition
- 27: NSF CAREER Award Winners
- 27: Ancient Sea Monster
- 27: At the Heart of All Matter
- 26: Education is Opportunity
- 26: Funding Medical Research
- 25: Your Inner Fish
- 25: YouTube Access Denied
- 25: Bacteria Can Transfer Genes to Other Bacteria
- 24: Car Powered Using Compressed Air
- 24: Virus Engineered To Kill Deadly Brain Tumors
- 24: Offering Residency to Foreign Engineers and Scientists
- 24: Scientists Search for Clues To Bee Mystery
- 23: Bats Are Dying in North-East USA
- 23: Electron Filmed for the First Time
- 23: Thailand’s Contribution to the ISEF
- 22: Cats Prevent Heart Attacks
- 22: Google Lunar X Prize – First 10 Teams
- 21: Leafhopper Feeding a Gecko
- 21: High School Students in USA, China and India
- 20: The Economic Consequences of Investing in Science Education
- 20: Leaping Tigress
- 20: The Risks of Scanning
- 19: Some Bacteria Might Fight Cancer
- 19: Grand Challenges for Engineering
- 19: One Reason Bacteria Gain Tolerance So Quickly
- 18: Science Explains: Flame Color
- 18: Really Old Coral – Over 2,000 Years Old
- 18: Parasitic Worms Reduce Hay Fever Symptoms
- 17: Superconducting Surprise
- 17: Dead Zones in the Ocean
- 16: Polar Bears and Huskies
- 16: Engineering Education at Smith College
- 16: One Step Closer to Holographic TV
- 15: China’s Technology Savvy Leadership
- 14: The Man Who Unboiled an Egg
- 14: As I was Saying… More Dinosaur Discoveries
- 13: Harvard Liberal Arts Faculty Votes to Make Their Research Open Source
- 13: Non-Vaccination Risks
- 13: Bollworm Evolves Resistance to Genetically Engineered Cotton
- 13: Clean Clothes Without Soap
- 12: Giant Duck-Billed Dinosaur Discovered in Mexico
- 12: Electrical Brain Stimulation Boosts Memory
- 12: Darwin Day
- 11: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
- 11: The Science of Kissing
- 11: Scientists on Changing Their Minds
- 10: Water Pump Merry-go-Round
- 10: Million-Degree Plasma May Flow throughout the Galaxy
- 09: National Science Board Report on Improving Engineering Education
- 09: Biofuels use Could Worsen Global Warming
- 08: NSF Awards $50 Million for Collaborative Plant Biology Project
- 08: Surprising New Diabetes Data
- 07: Cancer Killing Ideas From Honeybees
- 07: A New Epoch – Anthropocene
- 07: BBC In Our Time Science Podcast Archive
- 06: Nature Recreation Declining
- 05: Energy-Efficient Microchip
- 05: The World’s Hottest Chili
- 04: Water: Supercool and Strange
- 04: The Decoy Effect
- 03: Internet Undersea Cables
- 03: Treated Mosquito Nets Prevent Malaria
- 02: Genetic Research Suggests Cats ‘Domesticated Themselves’
- 02: Rainforests
- 01: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- 01: Great Self Portrait
January 2008
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Jumping Savannah Cat
- 30: Common Ancestor 6-10,000 Years Ago For All Blue-eyed People
- 30: Boiling Water And Plastic Spikes Bisphenol A Levels
- 30: Swimmers’ Sunscreen Killing Off Coral
- 29: Fight to curtail antibiotics in animal feed
- 28: Geothermal Power in Alaska
- 28: Weird Creatures
- 27: From Ghost Writing to Ghost Management in Medical Journals
- 27: Robot Finds Lost Shoppers and Provides Directions
- 27: Thinking Slime Moulds
- 26: IT Employment Hits New High Again
- 26: Synthesizing a Genome from Scratch
- 26: Elbaite with Albite
- 25: Science and Engineering Instructional Webcasts
- 24: Fancy Camera Flash Trigger
- 24: SelFISHing
- 23: Plants, Unikonts, Excavates and SARs
- 23: New Questions on Treating Cholesterol
- 22: Invest in Science for a Strong Economy
- 22: Country H-index Rank for Science Publications
- 21: Who Killed the Software Engineer?
- 21: Bacteria Race Ahead of Drugs
- 21: Sails for Modern Cargo Ships
- 20: Bicycle Engineering Blog
- 20: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Snow
- 20: Robot Nurse
- 19: Google India Women in Engineering Award 2008
- 18: Palm Tree Flowers After 100 Years and Self-destructs
- 18: Chess Match of the 20th Century
- 17: Parasite Rex
- 17: In Tunguska, Siberia 99 Years Ago
- 16: Statistics for Experimenters Review
- 16: Norman Borlaug and Wheat Stem Rust
- 14: Crystal Growth – Manganese Oxides
- 14: The Role of Science in Economy
- 14: Discussing Medical Study Results
- 13: Science Webcasts
- 13: Young IT Workers Demands
- 12: The Science of Happiness
- 12: The Loop Stitch
- 12: Robots 2007
- 11: Understanding the Evolution of Human Beings by Country
- 10: Biggest Black Hole’s Mass = 18 Billion Suns
- 10: Rubick’s Cube Solving Lego Mindstorms Robot
- 09: Computer Science PhD Overview
- 09: EduBloggers F-meme
- 09: Kids in the Lab: Getting High-Schoolers Hooked on Science
- 09: Super Soaker Inventor Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half
- 08: Really Widescreen Monitor (2880×900)
- 08: Preparing Computer Science Students for Jobs
- 07: UbuntuScience
- 07: 50 Species of Diatoms
- 07: $500,000 for Innovation in Engineering Education
- 06: 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids do
- 06: Science and Engineering Education Collaboration in Virginia
- 06: Mapping Where Brains Store Similar Information
- 05: Lemon Tree in Japan Bears Eleven Kinds of Fruit!
- 05: Evolution is Fundamental to Science
- 04: Robot Fly
- 03: Geothite
- 02: DNA Seen Through the Eyes of a Coder
- 02: Problems with Scientific Research Funding
- 01: Young Geneticists Making a Difference
- 01: Cu2C03(OH)2
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