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Scientists prove invisibility is possible Read this on the publication's site
News.com.au  |  Source: News Limited Australian student creating invisible material Uses same process to make optic fibres Fibre invisible in specific coloured light AUSTRALIAN scientists are ... | More...
Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery Read this on the publication's site
Wired News  |  Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. | More...
Technology at a Crossroads: A Brief Snapshot of the Current and the Future Read this on the publication's site
Huffington Post  |  In advance of Ideas Economy: Human Potential , a conference organized by The Economist for later this month, I had a brief discussion with Tom Standage, online and digital editor ... | More...
Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery life Read this on the publication's site
Science Daily  |  ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2010) A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of ... | More...
Sony launches new e-readers; Will pricing matter? Read this on the publication's site
Zdnet  |  Sony on Wednesday will update its e-reader line with touch-screen navigation across all three devices?Reader Pocket, Touch and Daily Edition. | More...
Who are 4chan? Read this on the publication's site
BBC  |  Coventry cat tormentor Mary Bale has become the latest victim of 4chan - a website credited with creating some of the web's biggest phenomena, whose users wreak havoc across ... | More...
iPhone app to replace the stethoscope? Read this on the publication's site
Economic Times  |  LONDON: The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher. | More...
Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science Read this on the publication's site
Wired News  |  'You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe.'Photo: Donald Milne For a while there, things didn?t look too good for British writer Simon Singh. | More...
NASA Tests Engine With an Uncertain Future Read this on the publication's site
New York Times  |  One hundred fifty-four feet long, packed with 700 tons of propellant and anchored to the side of a Utah hill, a solid rocket motor developed for NASAs next generation of rockets ... | More...
The Havasupai Tribe's Search for Justice in Diabetes Research Case Read this on the publication's site
Utne Reader Online  |  Troubled by the increase in the number of diabetes cases among their members, the Havasupai Tribe, in 1989, agreed to let researchers from Arizona State University draw and test ... | More...
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Science, Technology, War, and the Military
Oxford Companion: Military History  |  World War II transformed the relationship between war and the military on the one hand and science and technology on the other.
military, the, And technology
Oxford Ency of Science & Technology  |  The relationship between technology and war is particularly intimate. Humans need weapons to be efficient killers.
Technology and Environment
Oxford Companion to Global Change  |  “Unlike resources found in nature, technology is a man-made resource whose abundance can be continuously increased, and ...
Science and Technology
Oxford Ency of the Modern World  |  [ This entry includes two subentries, an overview and a discussion of Western science and technology in East Asia .] Overview ...
Social Sciences and Civil Rights
African American Hist 1896-Pres (Oxford)  |  The social sciences were built on the methodological foundations supplied by the natural sciences.
Science
Oxford Ency of Enlightenment  |  See Natural Philosophy and Science .
Sciences
Women in World History (Oxford)  |  This entry consists of two subentries