Book Reviews
![]() NASA: Nukes to Power Spacecraft: "Despite fears among those who say nuclear power in space is too risky, NASA moves ahead with plans to send an unmanned craft propelled by an electric, nuclear-powered engine into orbit around Jupiter's moons. By Noah Shachtman." [Wired News]
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![]() Tiny Whiskers Make Huge Memory Storage: "New, tiny magnetic sensors could help break a technical barrier to ushering in the next generation of computer disk storage capacity, researchers reported. The new sensors, filaments of nickel thinner than a wavelength of visible light, are capable of detecting extremely weak magnetic fields." [osOpinion]
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