Technology:
It's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge. Whatever the answer, New Orleans was not defined by its spirit of innovation in the decades preceding Hurricane Katrina. But the flood that changed everything...
Posted on August 29, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Marc van Roosmalen is a world-renowned primatologist whose research in the Amazon has led to the discovery of five species of monkeys and a new primate genus. But precisely because of that work, Dr. van Roosmalen was recently sentenced to...
Posted on August 28, 2007 11:31 AM • 0 Comments •
The front-runner for a $2 million NASA competition to build mock lunar landers has lost one of its two main vehicles in a fiery crash. The company, Armadillo Aerospace, says it will enter a smaller vehicle instead, but outsiders say...
Posted on August 23, 2007 12:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant. Kudos maybe we could filter out endrocrine disruptors and anti-depresents before they enter the food chain,...
Posted on August 22, 2007 11:17 AM • 3 Comments •
James E. Lovelock does not think much of renewable energy. At a panel on climate change at the University of Cambridge this summer, Mr. Lovelock was asked what would be the most effective action people could take. Because humans and...
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Posted on August 13, 2007 12:10 PM • 0 Comments •
Second Life's hundreds of thousands of users can teleport at will, transform into dragons and radically change their appearances with a few clicks. They have built cities, created clothing lines and programmed their avatars -- the characters that represent them...
Posted on August 9, 2007 11:56 AM • 2 Comments •
Creating secondary products derived from the aftermath of biofuel production is a key step to making the renewable energy industry profitable. Scientists are looking at profiting from the byproducts of corn ethanol and cellulosic ethanol, made from materials like switch...
Posted on August 9, 2007 11:40 AM • 0 Comments •
A newly discovered alien planet is so large and light that it could float on water, posing new challenges to astronomers who are devising theories to explain how planets are born. The gas-giant planet is about twice the size of...
Posted on August 8, 2007 11:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Plug-in Prius' powered with lithium-ion batteries are the latest innovation to test conventional thinking on car design. The car is either a harbinger of a far more fuel-efficient future, or another in a long line of technological insurgencies that will...
Posted on August 7, 2007 02:53 PM • 1 Comments •
In the United States there's an underlying assumption everyone is seemlessly connected even if it's just through a wireless phone and a borrowed computer. However, in parts of Latin America the tools for basic literacy are in short supply efectively...
Posted on August 5, 2007 12:52 PM • 0 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
