Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 8/1/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 8/1/2008

August 1, 2008

Five issues, insights, and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.

Final Pieces of the CMS Puzzle
Everything you ever wanted to know about CERN’s pixel detector.
Academy Answers Gates’ Call for Technology to Aid Poorest Farmers
The Gates Foundation produces a compelling report.
Stem Cells for ALS
An impressive technological feat nonetheless signals a new, more muted future for stem cells.
It’s Time to Vote: Choose Your Science Idol!
There’s one more week to vote in the Union of Concerned Scientists’ scientific integrity cartoon contest.
3D Printing
It’s here: DIY 3D printing.

Seed

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.
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.
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.