An editorial in the Economist argues that at a minimum, the "big spacefaring countries ought to consider negotiating some less formal rules of the road. These would seek to stop dangerous driving, maintain safe distances and, most importantly, avoid harm to each other's satellites."
Africa@home is a new distributed computing project with the goal to "develop a long-term model of malaria epidemiology, which it can use to test different ways of combating the disease."
The Economist looks at research into information markets that have been used to been used to forecast almost everything from the fate of Saddam Hussein to the outcome of celebrity trials and the box-office takings of films on their opening weekends.
Physicists met to discuss plans to link supercomputing centers worldwide into a massive global grid that will help process super collider data.
The ability to build powerful computers cheaply, combined with growing commercial demand for high-end computing power, is creating a renaissance in the field of supercomputing.
The science of lie detection has a chequered past. But it is becoming more reliable
Advances in underwater surveillance and satellite technology are revolutionizing marine biology by making it possible for biologists to tag and release animals and recieve daily emails on their location and health.
Quantum computers, which rely on the arcana of quantum mechanics to do many computations in parallel, are a long way from actually being useful. But researchers are already trying to work out how to write programs for these almost non-existent devices, in the belief that learning how to do so might help engineers to design the computers in useful ways.
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The Economist cautions that because hydrogen requires significant amounts of energy to extract in its pure form, the hype over hydrogen fuel-cells is premature.
An overview of the possible military applications of electromagnetic weapons.