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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Earth

    Improved Cars: Chu on It

    Hey Detroit: Lighten up, the incoming Energy Secretary recommends.

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  2. Tech

    Holiday Gifts: Blog Sites

    Sample other blogs and let us know of notables that we missed that are also worth sharing.

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  3. Chemistry

    Of Presidents and Nobels

    It appears Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will soon have produced two Nobel laureates to offer White House counsel and directives on science policy.

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  4. Tech

    Obama selects Steven Chu as Energy Secretary

    Featured blog: Chu is an energy researcher who also shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.

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  5. Chemistry

    ENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more

    News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.

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  6. Chemistry

    Nanosilver disinfects — but at what price?

    Silver demonstrates some unusual immunological impacts at the nanoscale.

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  7. Computing

    New theory defines faster MRI

    Better equations could improve MRI quality, or even bring quantum computing closer.

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  8. Physics

    Superconductivity does the twist

    Electron fluctuations could explain why exotic material conducts without resistance.

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  9. Earth

    It’s Night: Why’s It So Light?

    We're wasting scads of energy while much of the world sleeps.

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  10. Agriculture

    A Mushrooming Advance

    Human skin isn't the only thing that makes vitamin D upon exposure to the ultraviolet radiation.

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  11. Chemistry

    Blueprint to repel oil and water

    The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off.

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  12. Chemistry

    From Aerators to Rust — New Lead Risks

    Rusty water and other unusual sources of toxic risks in home drinking water.

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