Sam::Science

Sam Gentile's Science Category

Sunday, July 21, 2002

"Crash-tester" breaks gadgets with precision [New Scientist] A machine for "crash-testing" mobile phones, handheld computers and other portable electronic devices has been constructed by researchers in Singapore
12:43:48 PM

Second law of thermodynamics "broken" [New Scientist]

One of the most fundamental rules of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, has for the first time been shown not to hold for microscopic systems.

12:42:58 PM

The Thousand-Leg Race [Technology Review - Nanotech]

The battlefield is small but the stakes are big, as computer giants chase a revolutionary nano-storage technology.

12:39:58 PM

Singularity introduction. If you haven't read this basic essay on the Singularity, it is a fun entry article on the topic. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] [McGee's Musings]
12:19:10 PM

I've branched off a whole bunch of Category pages and will start experimenting with keeping most of the content into categories so that people interested in certain things won't have to read all the other stuff in one mondo page: .NET, Science Fiction, Books, Groove, Personal and Family, XML and Web Services, Science.
11:41:39 AM