Easy way to reset your sleep cycle: Stop eating – “Not eating for 12-16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a new study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can drastically improve a person’s ability to cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts…”

Encryption Chip Will End Piracy, Says Atari Founder – “At yesterday’s Wedbush Morgan Securities conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell claimed that a stealth encryption chip will “absolutely stop piracy of [PC] gameplay.” “There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now,” explained Bushnell…”

Unmarked chopper patrols NY city from high above – ” The helicopter’s unmarked paint job belies what’s inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates—or scan pedestrians’ faces—from high above the nation’s largest metropolis…”

Samsung Electronics unveils new 256 GB SSD – “Samsung said its 256-gigabyte solid state drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives. The company plans to begin production of SSDs this year…”

Behind a scientific success, a failed Texas experiment – “Later this year, the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory is scheduled to fire up a new particle accelerator near Geneva. By laying claim to the world’s most powerful collider, Europeans will wrest leadership in high-energy physics away from the U.S. after 80 years of American hegemony…”

Biofuels: moving beyond food crops – “As the effort to create renewable energy sources picks up, biofuels are attracting a lot of attention, not all of it good. Initial efforts have focused on extracting energy from sugars and starches in food crops, causing a competition for resources that has raised food prices globally. Researchers have already started looking for ways to move beyond this competitive state by avoiding the use of food plants, and three documents published this week explore the challenges and potential in these approaches…”

1GB Camcorder Pen – “This quite discrete “secret agent pen” features a built-in 1GB flash memory and it is capable or recording almost 3 hours of video with audio…”

N. Pacific humpback whale population rises – “Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades, a new study says…”

Harvard Negotiation Project: 5 Lasting Rules For Negotiating Anything – “Harvard’s researchers focused on negotiation for all kinds of conflicts, from the interpersonal to the international geopolitical. But since conflict negotiation is something businesspeople do daily, it’s not surprising that the fruits of their work were also published as a business book just two years later in the now classic best-seller, “Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In,” by Roger Fisher, Bill Ury and Bruce Patton…”

U.S. Military Launches Alternative-Fuel Push – “With oil’s multiyear ascent showing no signs of stopping — crude futures set another record Tuesday, closing at $129.07 a barrel in New York trading — energy security has emerged as a major concern for the Pentagon…”

CO2 Burial Schemes Get Green Light – “Fossil fuel burning wouldn’t be so bad for the environment, were it not for all of the climate-changing carbon dioxide released in the process…”

Utility Solar Programs – “a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency…”

Photovoltaic Moore’s Law Will Make Solar Competitive by 2015 – “Now there are some new twists and turns—essentially, three very positive developments that would not have been generally anticipated a decade ago. First, silicon-based solar technology has decoupled from the semiconductor industry and is achieving steady cost reductions, so that those following PV discern a kind of Moore’s law at work. In 2005, production of silicon for solar cells already surpassed production of silicon for semiconductors…”

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans – “The discovery marks the deepest living cells ever to be found beneath the sea floor. Bacteria have been found deeper underneath the continents, but there they are rare. In comparison, the rocks beneath the sea appear to be teeming with life…”

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