Difference engine: Going along for the ride
People say they want more fuel-efficient cars, but few actually buy them(49)
Sunday February 5th 2012
Fuel economy
Scientific publishing
The price of information
Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals(40)
Internet insecurity
Once more unto the breach
VeriSign, the Rolls-Royce of internet security, catches a flat(5)
The nature of humanity
What’s a man?
Studies of brain genetics are starting to reveal what makes humans human(12)
Crowd dynamics
Walk this way
Urban planners are increasingly putting the needs of pedestrians before those of motorists(45)
Flu research and public safety
Too dangerous for words
The would-be censors of research into deadly flu strains publicly air their fears(10)
Stem-cell medicine
Looking up
Stem-cell research is now bearing fruit(3)
The future of teaching
Difference engine: Let the games begin
Education is in dire need of reform, but not the sort pedagogues have in mind(80)
Colony collapse disorder
Bee off
A possible explanation of why beehives sometimes vanish(39)
Visible-light communication
Tripping the light fantastic
A fast and cheap optical version of Wi-Fi is coming(30)
- Also on this channel
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Recycling water
Difference engine: Waste not, want notWith demand outstripping supply, people will have to start drinking waste-water (63)
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Polio
A Rotary engineCan a businessmen’s club eradicate polio from the world? (34)
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Military technology
Magic bulletsSmart ammunition is about to make things a lot more dangerous for guerrillas fighting regular troops (57)
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Power from the sea
Second time around…Ocean heat may be used to generate electricity (44)
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Facebook
A fistful of dollars
Facebook may be a good bet for investors now; but regulatory problems lie ahead
Floating Facebook
The value of friendship
Facebook is likely to become a gargantuan company. That will bring risks as well as rewards
Babbage
Our science and technology blog pores over Google's new privacy policy, Kickstarter's latest figures and confusing web statistics
Babbage podcast
In our weekly Babbage podcast we discuss how Facebook may announce its IPO, Twitter takes heat for new censorship rules and Apple continues to dominate
Peer review
Other stories from the scientific press
Digital notebooks and lab-management software is here to stay
Nature
But the searchers must first find more cash
New York Times
The siren call of logical positivism
For every problem, there is a simple solution: neat, plausible and wrong
Quantum Diaries
BizTech
Business stories with a technological dimension
India favours France’s Dassault for its bomb bays
Europe’s dozy retailers are about to be rudely awoken by e-commerce
Is China’s grip on rare-earth metals loosening?
Sciences Po
Political stories with a scientific dimension
The world’s nastiest illnesses get some belated attention
A new report details the use of Twitter in Africa. Here is the short version
The green image of the Dutch is at odds with reality
Highlights
Extraterrestrial intelligence
Lonely planet
If there were an advanced civilisation out there, they really ought to have called on Earth by now
Daily chart
Life on Mars (and elsewhere)
A new index scores planetary bodies on their suitability for life
An invitation
The Richard Casement internship
We are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working on the newspaper in London, writing about science and technology
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