Innovation / Technology
Trust in the Twitterverse
WEEK IN REVIEW / by / January 15, 2010
With the world scrambling to cover the recent devastating Haitian earthquake, journalists, neuroscientists, and everyone in between are testing the frontiers of social media.
Now In Technology
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Lo and Behold: the Internet
On the 40th anniversary of the first internet connection, a look back on how a flash of insight and a 20-minute meeting got it all started.
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Why In-Vitro Meat Is Good for You
Jason Matheny on the world’s addiction to meat and how to grow ground beef in a test tube.
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Technology in the Trash
In the Trash Track project, garbage becomes a window through which we are able to see our once invisible and energy-intensive removal chain, prompting us to consider the impact of our waste.
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A Bloom in Biofuels
The same organisms that created the oil and gas now powering our industrial society and warming the globe can also be used to make carbon-neutral fuels.
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Getting Solar Off the Ground
William Maness on why alternative energy and power grids aren’t good playmates and his plans for beaming solar power from space.
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Living Off the Land
The same technology that keeps astronauts alive in outer space could foster more sustainable lifestyles right here on Earth.
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Immortal Information
A new nanoscale storage device could preserve all the digital information you want, for as long as you want—and longer.
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Planet Hunting, Down to Earth
The emerging technology of laser frequency combs may usher in a new golden era of ground-based astronomy.
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Why We’re Not Obsolete
As scientific data accumulates, volume can overwhelm understanding. A new Cornell computer program is using the technological advances that created this data-understanding problem to help solve it.
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The Tricorder Arrives
Cell phones will soon be able to sense our environment and its pollutants. This new power may change the way we move through the world, but can it motivate us to change it?
Slideshow
The Science of Stuff
A visual tour of the colorful, the strange, and the super-strong in the Material ConneXion library, where new forms of cloth, concrete, metal, and more line the walls.
Research Blogging
Dave Munger
Creating Citizen Scientists
Researchers in fields ranging from biochemistry to cosmology are recruiting armies of volunteers to help solve some of science’s thorniest problems.
What We Know
Taming Carbon’s Wild Side
Highly reactive molecules known as carbenes have gone from unstable intermediates with nanosecond lifetimes to powerful tools in synthetic chemistry.
Inventive
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.
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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World
Press Gang
With New York City about to let bloggers qualify for press passes, a look at what breaking down the walls between old and new media means for science reporting.
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Culture
The Ancient, Distant, and Dead
Inspired by scientific research, Katie Paterson creates art based on data from faraway melting glaciers, long-dead stars, and the initial moments of the universe.
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Ideas
A Sober Assessment
Alcohol is an important part of life in many cultures throughout the world, but there are many misperceptions about this common social lubricant.
