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Feed SubscriptionThe Department Of Energy Reveals The Light Bulb Of The Future
This Philips LED bulb is the winner of the DOE's $10 million competition to develop a low-cost, energy efficient, high-performance replacement for the incandescent bulb.
Read More »When Does Sex Count as a Work-Related Injury?
Apparently when it occurs on a business trip. An Australian public servant is suing her employer for compensation after being injured while having sex during a business trip. She works for ComCare, the Australian government’s—wait for it—workplace safety organization
Read More »The Traffic Problems That Will Disappear When Vehicles Can Talk To Each Other
Dangerous roads, rubbernecking at accidents, even running out of juice on your EV: All can be solved by the winners of the Department of Transportation's Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge, which found new ways for cars to talk to each other. Traffic is generally accepted as a necessity of modern life, but it doesn't have to be. We don't have traffic because there are too many cars, we have traffic because people are bad drivers and don't have enough information to make smart decisions
Read More »100 Year Starship Takes The Long View Of Interstellar Travel
NASA and DARPA are combining forces to create a program that will have humans traveling to Alpha Centauri in 100 years.
Read More »Why Japan Is Drilling Offshore For "Burning Ice"
The newest form of natural gas might be the most potent yet. But while Japan is using it to replace nuclear power, mining it could just cause more disasters.
Read More »How Do You Know When Employees Need to Get Out of the Box?
Figuring out whether or not an employee will thrive if let "out of the box" is not always easy to do. Here are some pointers.
Read More »News Corp. Hacks Company, Then Buys It
Former Inc. 500 company alleges that News Corp. tried to destroy it for its refusal to sell itself to the media giant.
Read More »Tevatron experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range
(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments at the Department of Energys Fermilab are close to reaching the critical sensitivity that is necessary to look for the existence of a light Higgs particle. Scientists from both the CDF and DZero collider experiments at Fermilab will present their new Higgs search results at the EPS High-Energy Physics conference, held in Grenoble, France, from July 21-27.
Read More »The Bilingual Advantage: Second Language Increases Cognitive Ability (preview)
Many parents would like their children to master a second language, but few kids in this country do. Only 9 percent of adults in the U.S.
Read More »USDA Denies It Can Cut Genetically Modified Grass
By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine When the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced this month that it did not have the authority to oversee a new variety of genetically modified (GM) Kentucky bluegrass, it exposed a serious weakness in the regulations governing GM crops. [More]
Read More »Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Ξb0). This particle contains three quarks: a strange quark, an up quark and a bottom quark (s-u-b). While its existence was predicted by the Standard Model, the observation of the neutral Xi-sub-b is significant because it strengthens our understanding of how quarks form matter
Read More »Hacked Hardware Has Been Sold in the U.S.
Last week, an official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told a congressional panel that hardware sold in the U.S. has been compromised by foreign agents
Read More »US joining the Wendelstein 7-X fusion project
The USA is investing over 7.5 million dollars in the construction of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald. In the three-year project, starting in 2011, scientists from the fusion institutes at Princeton, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos are contributing auxiliary magnetic coils, measuring instruments and planning of special sections of the wall cladding for equipping the German fusion device one of a total of nine projects in the Innovative Approaches to Fusion programme of the USA Department of Energy who will accordingly become a partner in the Wendelstein 7-X research programme.
Read More »New Glasses Give The Blind Bionic Eyes
Smartphone and gaming tech offers the vision-impaired the promise of better lives, for much less than the cost of a guide dog. By combining imaging, display, and sensing technology honed for smartphones, with games consoles and systems like Microsoft's Kinect, Oxford scientists have designed a set of high-tech glasses that could radically change the life of people suffering from a number of vision-impairing disorders.
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