Fermilab Looks for Visitors from Another Dimension – “The detection of extra dimensions beyond the familiar four—the three dimensions of space and one of time—would be among the most earth-shattering discoveries in the history of physics. Now scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., are designing a new experiment that would investigate tantalizing hints that extra dimensions may indeed exist…”

The Amazing 150″ Panasonic Life Wall TV Learns Your Preferences – “How about having a TV that will move with you as you walk around the living room to keep the display right in front of you? The display would be large or small depending on how far away from the screen you were. It could display a screen saver instead of a black screen when turned off…”

A week of Chrome: Google’s browser gets 7% share at Ars – “Net Applications, which has been tracking Chrome market share on an hourly basis, shows that the browser’s popularity peaked at roughly 1.7 percent of the global browser market on September 5. It has fluctuated in waves since then and is currently hovering around 1 percent. According to Net Applications, Chrome has already passed Netscape and Opera, which are both around 0.75 percent…”

Run Windows Apps 100% Seamlessly on Ubuntu! – “But running an app on a virtual machine doesn’t eliminate Windows from the equation. Right? So I will show you now how to run Windows apps 100% seamlessly on Ubuntu. You know something like this…”

10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened – “Much of the open source software that is in popular use today was born from other projects. We thought it would be interesting to take a look at the history of some of these software forks and find out WHY they happened in the first place…”

DRIVABLE STAR WARS LANDSPEEDER – “This Star Wars Landspeeder is a full-sized, drivable, Jedi-approved replica built by former LucasFilm employee Daniel Deutsch, who designed his version from the ground up. Neatorama dug up this 1:1 scale speeder, which has a custom aluminum chassis, fiberglass body, and an electric drive system that hits lightspeed at 25 mph…”

The First City in the U.S. to Make Natural Gas from Our Poop – “A composting toiletSan Antonio, Texas will be the first city in the United States to produce natural gas from the methane that comes from the poop of its residents on a large, profitable scale. Our excrement is being more technically referred to as “biosolids” by the companies and agencies involved in the project. And the project is by no means a joke…”

U-M physicists’ analysis leads to discovery of new particle – “University of Michigan physicists played a leading role in the discovery of a new particle, the Omega b baryon, which is an exotic relative of the proton. It was detected for the first time in a particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, Fermilab has announced…”

Researchers Developing the “Internet for Energy” – “The center will develop technology to transform the United States’ outdated centralized power grid to a “smart” grid that can store and distribute alternative energy from solar panels, wind farms, and more. The center’s plan even allows for community involvement— individual citizens can harvest their own energy and sell it back to power companies…”

The observations reveal that the jets of the gamma-ray burst called GRB 080319B were aimed almost directly at the Earth. – “Astronomers from around the world combined data from ground- and space-based telescopes to paint a detailed portrait of the brightest explosion ever seen. The observations reveal that the jets of the gamma-ray burst called GRB 080319B were aimed almost directly at the Earth…”

Melting ice caps could suck carbon from atmosphere
– “It’s not often that disappearing Arctic ice is presented as good news for the planet. Yet new research suggests that as the northern polar cap melts, it could lift the lid off a new carbon sink capable of soaking up carbon dioxide…”

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