Articles from 03/2009
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Little Lithium Battery That Could
By taking a second look at existing battery materials, researchers have found the secret to unleashing the electrical power of the common lithium-ion battery.
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The Multiverse Problem
Is theoretical physics becoming the next battleground in the culture wars? Not according to some theologians and scientists.
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Exploding a Theory
A recent supernova is calling into question what we know about the life and death of stars.
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Mikhail Gromov Wins Abel Prize
Russian-French mathematician wins the Abel Prize for his revolutionary contributions to geometry.
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The Living Robot
Researchers have developed a robot capable of learning and interacting with the world using a biological brain.
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The Interpreters
Profiles of those using cutting-edge science to educate and engage.
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Found in Translation
The process of creating a nuclear-security glossary matters as much as the finished product.
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Design and Being Just
At some point during the show, VL started growing too fast. It was time to stop it. But did that mean killing it?
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Building the Taxonomy of Life
The presumption was that you’d need experts to write pages, and we’d end up with 2 million or so. I was absolutely clear from the start that that wasn’t going to work.
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Knowledge, in Real Time
A new picture of science — and possibly future innovation — comes into focus with the mapping of scientists’ online research behavior.
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A New Picture of the Two Cultures
A recent visualization of scholarly research based on online user patterns offers a fresh perspective on C.P. Snow's landmark treatise on science and the arts.
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Top DC Scientists Confirmed
Holdren and Lubchenco have both advocated for strong government intervention to address the man-made causes of climate change.
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The Running Man, Revisited
The endurance running hypothesis, the idea that humans evolved as long-distance runners, may have legs thanks to a new study on toes.
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Deciding How to Decide
Jonah Lehrer shines light on the black box of decision making, explains the problem with certainty, and discusses the challenges of eavesdropping on the brain.
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20 Years of the World Wide Web
In the two decades since a small group of researchers adopted a hyperlink system to share data between institutions, scientific research — and the world — have changed profoundly.
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Water and Sand in Rajasthan
In India’s populated desert, development and the flow of water are eroding a historic sand fort.
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What Really Happened at Copenhagen?
It's problematic when largely unresolved debates among the world's climate change researchers get reduced to six key messages.
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Peer Pressure
James Wilsdon takes a close look at Britain's system for defining excellence at the country's top-performing universities.
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Scientific Integrity and Stem Cells
President Obama signs two key documents to help ensure America's continued global leadership in scientific discoveries.
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Scientific Integrity Memorandum
Ensuring the highest level of integrity in all aspects of the executive branch's involvement with scientific and technological processes.
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Paul Steinhardt + Peter Galison
The physicist and the historian discuss the nature of truth as theoretical models of the universe become increasingly difficult to test.
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Text of Remarks of President Obama
Ensuring America’s continued global leadership in scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs.
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Getting Our Nitrogen Fix
Our ability to pull nitrogen from the air fed a growing human population. Can 21st century biotechnology refine the process while reducing environmental impact?
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Designing the Human Mind
[Video] Is it possible to create a complete model of the human brain? Henry Markram explains that it will to take a computer 20,000 times more powerful than any that exists today.
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March Book & DVD Picks
Profiles of planet-saving entrepreneurs, an Oxford physicist's unintimidating look at antimatter, a science-driven obesity doc.
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Love at 1,200 Hz
An irritating, disease-laden species of mosquito proves that it can also be sophisticated, sensual, and even romantic.
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The Sleep of Reason
Bruce Sterling reflects on artist Alexis Rockman's psychedelic, posthuman exhibit Half-life.
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The Seed Salon: Alexis Rockman + Neil deGrasse Tyson
Artist Alexis Rockman and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debate the merits of hopeful images, science in pop culture, and how Hubble images mimic psychedelic art.
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
