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Scientific American
October 2008
Mark Fischetti |
How the Microwave Works The science behind nuking that TV dinner.   |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Wesson & Anderson |
The Gravity Probe B Bailout Perhaps the most sophisticated satellite ever flown was nearly doomed by a tiny error, and NASA planned to end the experiment. But with a little creative fund-raising, the project may have bought enough time to prove its worth |
Popular Mechanics
October 1, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. |
Chemistry World
October 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Physics envy UK government's former chief scientific adviser, surface chemist David King, questioned whether the hunt for the Higgs boson should be a priority for a planet facing potentially catastrophic climate change |
Chemistry World
October 2008
Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Redefining one second of time. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Graphene racks up the charge Researchers in the US have used graphene, sheets of carbon that are just one atom thick, to improve the performance of energy-storage devices which could supersede batteries in electric cars. |
Chemistry World
September 23, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Nanotubes All Shook up Simply shaking up a solution of carbon nanotubes can alter the tubes' electronic properties. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Josie Glausiusz |
Star Power: Why Fusion Proves Elusive In his Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Charles Seife says "Fusion is as close as science gets to something for nothing." |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Philip E. Ross |
Engineer Named MacArthur Fellow for Work on Wireless Power and Self-focusing Lasers MIT engineer Marin Soljacic found a way to recharge portable devices wirelessly |
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