This Machine Might* Save the World – “What Laberge has set out to build in this office park, using $2 million in private funding and a skeletal workforce, is a nuclear-fusion power plant…”

Tiny $10 Microscope – “A tiny microscope that employs the same kind of chip used in digital cameras can produce high-resolution images of cells without the expensive, space-hogging lenses that have been part of microscope design for centuries…”

Nanotube Applications – “The properties of carbon nanotubes have caused researchers and companies to consider using them in several fields. For example, because carbon nanotubes have the highest strength to weight ratio of any known material, researchers at NASA are combining nanotubes with other materials into composites that can be used to build lightweight spacecraft…”

Brain tumor treatment in sight – “Researchers from UC Davis Cancer Center have announced today that they have found a molecule which targets glioblastoma, a very deady type of brain cancer, which is the most aggresive primary brain tumor…”

Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking – “In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, beginning with those born in the late 1960s…”

Gizmodo IMterview: Jonathon Keats – “My new camera, which I’ve built by hand from brass, will take a single continuous exposure of one hundred years duration. In order to be durable, I realized that the camera has to be simple. There are no moving parts, nor any toxic chemicals. The film is archivally-stable black paper, which will fade in the focused light of a pinhole projection over the next hundred years, producing a unique positive print…”

Regenerate Your Brain? -The Science Says It’s Possible – “Human_brain_receptors_2_2 Contrary to popular belief, recent studies have found that there are probably ways to regenerate brain matter…”

Blood sugar loss may trigger Alzheimer’s: study – “The study of human and mice brains suggests a reduction of blood flow deprives energy to the brain, setting off a process that ultimately produces the sticky clumps of protein researchers believe is a cause of the disease, they said…”

Weird object beyond Pluto gets stranger – “When astronomers announced the discovery last month of Sedna, the most distant known object in the solar system, they were nearly certain it had an unseen satellite. New observations by the Hubble Space Telescope find no moon, however, deepening the mystery surrounding this already strange object…”

Military adapting Wii controller for combat – “Military contractors are planning to use a popular video game controller to control combat robots…”

New Titanium-glass Alloys Are Tough, Cheap And Light-weight – “Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a range of structural metallic-glass composites, based in titanium, that are lighter and less expensive than any the group had previously created, while still maintaining their toughness and ductility–the ability to be deformed without breaking…”

Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’ – “A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of “new fundamentals”, according to a leading food expert…”

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