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Getting a little breather, so I’m sending out a ctf update. Hopefully I’ll get another one out before more then a month.

Biotech

1. Your Brain Boots Up Like a Computer

Culture

1. We Can Detect Liquid Explosives
2. Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans
3. New Cell Can Tell If You’re Drunk

Robotics

1. No sex please, robot, just clean the floor

Science

1. Satellite Data Reveals Gravity Change From Sumatran Earthquake
2. Has string theory tied up better ideas in physics?

Space

1. Earth’s Moon Could Become a Planet
2. Nine Planets Become 12 with Controversial New Definition
3. Pluto: Is It a Planet?
4. Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected
5. Moon`s Strange Bulge Finally Explained
6. Crack found in Discovery external tank insulation
7. NASA revives main Hubble telescope camera
8. Enigmatic object baffles supernova team
9. Earth Surrounded by Giant Fizzy Bubbles

Tech

1. Speedy silicon sets world record
2. Man on a Mission – The Skin Sensing Saw
3. Tracking Your Cell Phone for Traffic Reports
4. Giant Robot Imprisons Parked Cars
5. Pigment formulated 225 years ago could be key in emerging technologies
6. Talking Mirror Not Just for Fairy Tales Anymore
7. Plasma needle could replace the dentist’s drill
8. New System Blocks Unwanted Video & Still Photography

Whoops, forgot to release it on friday.
Biotech

1. A Dose Of Genius
2. Researchers grow human heart tissue from stem cells

Culture

1. Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants
2. When Escape Seems Just a Mouse-Click Away: Online gaming addiction in Korea
3. Simon Caulkin: Pull the other one … how iPods took over the world

Energy

1. Scientists Resolve 60-Year-Old Plutonium Questions
2. Laser enrichment could cut cost of nuclear power

Environment

1. Good News and a Puzzle

Military

1. Special forces to use strap-on Batwings
2. Numbers Stations Move From Shortwave To VoIP

Robotics

1. Beer pouring robot

Space

1. Jupiter’s Huge Storms Converge
2. Orbiting gas stations key to interplanetary exploration
3. One small breath for man

Tech

1. A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium
2. Super Battery
3. Ultrawideband Signal Passes Data Through Walls
4. Fuel cells in laptops edge closer
5. Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future(Watch the videos, it’s well worth it)

Now safely nestled in the wilds of New Jersey, the time has come to restart Cool Tech Friday. Enjoy!
Biology

1. Dolphins, like humans, recognize names
2. New animal resembles furry lobster

Biotech

1. A hangover cure that works
2. Pill reverses vegetative state
3. Drug Discovery Team To Explore Newly Discovered Deep-sea Reefs
4. This robot keeps the doctor away
5. Immune System Gone Bad
6. Cure for cancers ‘in five years’

Culture

1. Chicken and egg debate unscrambled
2. The Rise of Crowdsourcing!Dad, read this one!
3. Wired Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document
4. Gonzales Says Prosecutions of Journalists For Publishing Leaks Are Possible

Energy

1. Fusion reactor work gets go-ahead
2. Better Fuel Cells Using Bacteria
3. Nuclear fusion plasma problem tackled
4. Hydrogen Fuel Balls
5. Microbes Convert Wastewater into Useable Electricity
6. Algae to rescue on warming, fuel source?

Robotics

1. Honda says brain waves control robot
2. Soldiers bond with battlefield robots
3. Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects

Science

1. Is evolution predictable?

Space

1. Planet shine to aid life search
2. Voyager II detects solar system’s edge
3. Astronomers Use Innovative Technique to Find Extrasolar Planett
4. Unique wide-field telescope will make ‘sky movies’
5. NASA hopes shuttle’s next move won’t be its last
6. Smokeless rockets launching soon?
7. Distant ‘Earths’ will only be seen from space
8. Back to the Moon: Uniting Science and Exploration
9. Big Meteorite Creates Big Mysteries
10. Three new planets found around sun-like star
11. Planets Found in Potentially Habitable Setup

Tech

1. The Digital Ink billboard
2. Interactive display system knows users by touch
3. Plan for cloaking device unveiled
4. NASA Wants Your Innovative Ideas
5. The M1 Battery
6. Charge!

Telephony

1. MIT Plans to Convert Cell Phone Users into Podcasters
2. Linksys Launches Wireless-G Phones

Biotech

1. Mind Control by Parasites
2. Stanford neuroscientist wants to implant an electrode in his brain
3. NIH-Created Ebola Vaccine Passes 1st Test
4. Sleeping on it best for complex decisions
5. Alzheimer’s Progresses Faster in Educated People

Culture

1. Egypt offers first look at newly discovered tomb, first saince the tomb of Tutankhamun
2. Love is the drug
3. The Future of Science: A Conversation with Alan Lightman
4. The Politically Incorrect Science Fair

Environment

1. Underwater Ocean Currents Used to Power Bermuda
2. Mazda Plans Dual-Fuel Car in Japan
3. Has World Oil Production Passed Its Peak?
4. Segway Inventor Turns To Environment
5. Greenland’s glaciers losing ice at faster rate
6. The World Oceans Now 70% Shark Free

Physics

1. NY team confirms UCLA tabletop fusion
2. Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equation
3. Quantum computer works best switched off

Space

1. Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests
2. Human spaceflight must come first, argues NASA
3. New group to develop passenger spaceship
4. Astronomers get shortlist of possible ET addresses
5. Solar Sail News and Upcoming JPL Missions
6. NASA plans to park space shuttle Atlantis in 2008
7. Draft Rules for X Prize Lunar Lander Challenge
8. Spaceport Singapore
9. NASA Detects Totally New Mystery Explosion Nearby

Tech

1. New High-Speed Nano Imaging Device
2. US and Canadian skiers get smart armour
3. Moore’s Law Staying Strong Through 30nm
4. Stronger Future for Nuclear Power

Biotech

1. Innovative Hand-Held Insulin Device Effectively Controls Diabetes and Provides Reliable and Easy to Use Insulin Dosing
2. Babies` Cells Linger, May Protect Mothers
3. Skin Stem Cells Made into Bone and Muscle
4. Printable Skin: `Inkjet` Breakthrough Makes Human Tissue
5. Cow-free Beef Proposed
6. Sperm Cells Turned into Eggs
7. Has BYU prof found AIDS cure?
8. New pill increases dreaming sleep

Culture

1. 3 billion people seek basic financial services is Microfinance the answer?
2. NASA Chief Backs Agency Openness
3. NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace
4. A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA

Entertainment

1. Physics students, duct tape extend faded couch’s mileage

Environment

1. Flying Electric Generator (FEG) technology
2. World at its warmest of past 1,200 years, researchers show

Military

1. C-130H Laser Gunship Program begins

Physics

1. Dark matter comes out of the cold
2. SLAC Physicists Develop Test For String Theory
3. No Time Travel, Sorry

Space

1. The solar system no longer has nine planets
2. NASA to divert cash from science into shuttle
3. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Searching For A ‘New Moon’
4. Experts poles apart over Moon landing sites
5. Seeing `Strange` Stars
6. Should We Land on the Moon’s Poles or Equator?

Tech

1. Power Plastics to provide electrical power to packaging and intelligent clothing
2. Reclaiming all that space in the attic – EZ Attic
3. Web 2.0 new tools, amazing functionality, vast opportunities
4. VW and Google team to explore future vehicle navigation systems
5. Stiletto Experimental ship with carbon fiber M-hull design tops 50 knots (60mph)
6. The three-key mini-keyboard with OLED screen on each key
7. Buying, paying bills and transfering money with your mobile phone
8. Nano Technology may make cleaning Toilets a thing of the Past
9. Chip prototype gets under the skin
10. Don’t Bring Home the Bacon, Print It

Biotech

1. Live cells jetted with electric fields
2. Scientists invent super-smooth, super-small pipes that could ferry medicine into the body
3. Caffeine Free: Blue Light Makes People Alert at Night
4. Mine Buster Targets Breast Cancer
5. New device fights tooth decay with electricity
6. Study Strengthens Link between Virus and Weight Gain

Culture

1. Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
2. Radiation exposure drug availability blocked by feds
3. Sexual Chemistry Only Lasts Two Years
4. Let There Be Wi-Fi
5. AT&T Sued Over NSA Eavesdropping
6. NASCAR in the Clouds
7. Telegram Passes Into History
8. President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!

Environment

1. How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!
2. Switch Grass: Alternative Energy Source?
3. Global Warming Risks Severe
4. Stark warning over climate change

Mathematics

1. Benford’s Law

Physics

1. Relativity, FTL and causality
2. Matter bound by light
3. South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences of String Theory

Space

1. Space Enthusiast Resources
2. The Mysterious Smell of Moondust
3. Sliding Into ‘Home Plate’, Onward To Victoria Crater
4. New `planet` bigger than Pluto
5. Augmented reality telescope brings universe closer

Tech

1. Inventor develops artificial gills
2. Lofting Balloons for Cell Service
3. These Houses Can Take a Lickin’
4. Honda Accord ADAS auto-pilot system takes the reins
5. Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors

Biotech

1. X-Prize for DNA Decoding Aims to Fuel Innovation
2. Science Creates a Living Bandage for Broken Hearts
3. Scientists Find Unusual Lung-cancer Tumor-suppressor Gene

Culture

1. Study: College students lack literacy for complex tasks
2. The New Boom
3. Science `not for normal people`

Environment

1. Growing crops to cope with climate change

Military

1. The first gun-toting robotic combat soldiers set to be deployed

Physics

1. Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source
2. Gravity theory dispenses with dark matter
3. China to build world’s first artificial Sun

Space

1. 7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster
2. Smallest Earth-like planet found
3. Shuttle a deathtrap, says astronaut
4. Spacecraft, heal thyself
5. Buzz Aldrin’s Roadmap To Mars

Tech

1. Heavyweight transparency – Light Transmitting Concrete
2. The Gypsy MIDI controller turns the human body into a musical instrument
3. Transparent OLED On the Way
4. Nanotubes show their strength in numbers
5. Retro-fit heads-up display system for motorcycle and bicycle helmets
6. Fast track to a fine vintage

Biotech

1. nano-size battery to be implanted in eye to power artificial retina
2. Doctors claim suspended animation success
3. Measuring wrinkles, sun damage with software

Culture

1. Crisis in Science Prompts Sharing of Data

Environment

1. Doomsday seed bank to be built
2. Wound Up Over Windmills
3. California home to 27 new species

Military

1. Police, Army Robots to Debut in 10 Years

Physics

1. Scientists make first step towards ‘holy grail’ of crystallography
2. Is dark energy changing?

Space

1. Space propulsion breakthrough new spacecraft ion engine tested
2. First Galileo signals received
3. Mini-galaxies may reveal dark matter stream
4. Pluto probe launches from Florida
5. Nemesis, the Sun’s Binary Star Companion?
6. Elated Scientists Say Space-Dust Mission Exceeded Expectations
7. Space Junk Cleanup Needed, NASA Experts Warn

Tech

1. New Uses For LCD Technology
2. Tokyo to get world’s first maglev elevator
3. Flash memory to rival hard drives
4. Measure of Metal Supply Finds Future Shortage

Biotech

1. Caloric restriction appears to prevent primary aging in the heart
2. Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs

Culture

1. Are We Descended from Cannibals?
2. The fully-automated convenience store
3. Charles Arthur: Spam has passed its peak

Entertainment

1. New Music Player to Spread Files Wirelessly
2. N.Y. governor wants drivers to fill up with ethanol or biodiesel
3. DropShots service to help families stay connected and share life experiences

Environment

1. Citroen to reveal diesel hybrid C4
2. Honda FCX fuel cell vehicle production announced

Military

1. Improved Armored Vests Reflect Changing Enemy Tactics
2. New Radar Scope offers X-ray vision

Physics

1. Desktop fusion is back on the table

Space

1. Astronomers find magnetic Slinky in constellation of Orion
2. More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
3. Dying Star Reveals More Evidence for New Kind of Black Hole
4. US Draw Up Rules for Space Tourism
5. Milky Way’s Warp Explained
6. Companion Dwarf Galaxy Discovered

Tech

1. Sony Reader targets book lovers
2. Spin Doctors Create Quantum Chip
3. The Optimus Organic LED keyboard

Well, we have started up again in the new year after our end of the year break with a slightly late Cool Tech Friday (Saturday?). Hope you enjoy this year’s CTF.

Biotech

1. Human Stem Cell Process Found
2. South Korea panel to issue final word on stem cell fraud

Culture

1. Edge.org’s 2006 uestion: What is your dangerous idea?
2. Einstein Has Left the Building
3. The Patent Epidemic
4. Dragon Slayers or Tax Evaders
5. Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
6. Ready access to info means smarts or stress?

Entertainment

1. Philips Continues Game Moves With Entertaible

Environment

1. GM crops created superweed, say scientists
2. Mount St. Helens\’ Lava Baffles Scientists
3. Milestones and Trends in Renewable Energy — 2005 and 2006

Physics

1. Experimental Hyperspace Drive
2. Oregon researchers make big advance on road to superlens
3. 13 things that do not make sense

Space

1. Pluto colder than expected
2. Skepticism greets claim of possible alien microbes
3. 365 Nights of Skywatching
4. CEV revolution mounted
5. Nasa team sees explosion on Moon
6. Strange new object found at edge of Solar System
7. Virgin Spaceport to Be Built in N.M.

Tech

1. Sea Solar Power Inc. to Tap Deep Sea Temperature Gradient
2. cantonrep.com
3. One digicam, two lenses: Kodak announces the EasyShare V570
4. First jet powered Birdman flight
5. Stretchable silicon could be next wave in electronics
6. Stretchable silicon
7. ESA accelerates towards a new space thruster
8. Nanotech coating to cure fogging permanently