Monday, September 23, 2002

Cold antiatoms arrive in large numbers. PhysicsWeb Sep 18 2002 1:42PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Scientists can now make antimater (at least antihydrogen) in large enough quantities to study. Star Trek again becomes realiy. What will we discover about antimatter? Will it be useful? The next few years could show a number of interesting breakthroughs. 12:09:47 PM    comment []

The Spectra of Evil. Terrorists could soon have their nasty plans zapped by a laser. [Beyond 2000 - Daily Science News] Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy or LIBS could have utility in many different areas. It may make it possible to identify a sample of microorganisms immediately and will very little sample. 12:05:23 PM    comment []

Artificial muscles It may soon be possible to create artificial muscles using new organic deposites being developed. 11:55:53 AM    comment []

Fonts Physicists create font for antimatter. CERN Courier Sep 20 2002 7:01PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] And it only works on macintosh computers. This may be a sign where science is headed tool wise. Unix and mac, windows need not apply. We recently made a decision here to stick with macs instead of adding wintel and the main reason was, software. In the coming years many tools we will be using are unix, genomics tools and with the mac we can use all those tools. 11:53:03 AM    comment []

Aerosols baby aerosols Distinguishing Human Pollution From Other Atmospheric Particles. Space Daily Sep 22 2002 12:34PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] This will make it easier to make global prediction models and acocunt for the impact of human activity. 11:49:31 AM    comment []