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7 October 2009 grant b 0

IEEE Spectrum, the journal that sounds like it’s screaming, is taking a long, close look at contact lenses that could give you Terminator eyes:

…[I]n fact, my students and

3 July 2009 grant b 0

Normally I wouldn’t encourage this sort of thing, but NOVA has an interesting feature explaining how Autotune works.

On July 6, they’ll be posting answers to viewers’… Read the rest “Autotune explained.”

27 May 2009 grant b 0

…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay:

Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed

31 March 2009 grant b 1

The IEEE (what used to be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) reports in Spectrum about a strange new entertainment breakthrough that combines neurology, electronics… Read the rest “Jacket makes movies feelies.”

3 December 2008 grant b 0

Physorg.com writes it down to remember, using new techniques to create paper flash drives:

Martins, a scientist at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, continues: “What we have shown

4 September 2008 grant b 0

Yes, the LHC is exciting. I own that.

But is it *this* exciting?

That’s a bunch of particle physicists (I think) dancing inside the LHC to a rap by science writer Kate McAlpine. I think… Read the rest “Large Hadron Rap”

27 July 2008 grant b 0

23 February 2008 grant b 0

SONG: “Flip the Switch” _{(To download: right-click & “Save As”)}

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Deep brain stimulation may help Alzheimer patient’s… Read the rest “SONG: Flip the Switch.”

26 August 2007 grant b 1

CMS Detector, Geneva

This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson.

At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 million, weighing about 485,000 pounds, and containing