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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Agriculture
Network Antennas — Yum!
Sensor designers might have to consider engineering in bovine deterrence.
By Janet Raloff - Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
By Alex Szalay - Earth
TV Take-Backs
Here's one solution for all of the conventional TVs that will be cast off during the imminent digital-TV transition.
By Janet Raloff - Computing
Building ‘The Matrix’
Simulating new materials could help in building them — but only quantum simulators could fully model reality. A team reports a first step in realizing quantum simulation.
- Materials Science
Solar panels to dye for
Scientists show that cheap chemical dyes may one day help with the efficient capture of the sun's energy
- Humans
Cars Are Learning to Drive
Hands-free driving, truth be told, sounds very appealing.
By Janet Raloff - Computing
Video Search à la Web
Finding videos on the web can still be a hit-or-miss proposition.
By Janet Raloff - Humans
Son of Furby
How Star Wars' robots catalyzed an MIT program to build companionable robots.
By Janet Raloff - Health & Medicine
Reading minds … or at least brain scans
By analyzing brain activity, computers can tell what word is on your mind.
By Tia Ghose - Chemistry
Kavli Awardees Named
Norwegian Academy awards three novel and hefty prizes to three teams of scientists.
By Janet Raloff - Health & Medicine
BOOK LIST | Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds
The alien minds are of animals. The question: Can robots mimic them? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008, 252 p., $34.95. GUILTY ROBOTS, HAPPY DOGS: THE QUESTION OF ALIEN MINDS
By Science News - Tech
I, computer
Bacteria that can "flip pancakes" with their DNA are the first microbes engineered to be living computers.