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You, too, can be foiled by lasers while trying to steal a diamond
Sep 3, 2013 — It’s a well-worn trope in heist movies: the array of lasers surrounding a diamond — or the Fabergé Coronation Egg <http: watch?v="kUPQfzAyVeI"> — in the middle of a museum gallery, the beams crisscrossing at odd angles, ready to sound an alarm if a thief inadvertently breaks one of them. You won’t often find such arrays in real-life museums; if Catherine Zeta-Jones can outfox a security system while blindfolded <http: watch?v="gFtqFapz4LI"> it&rsqu...
Autonomous driving spurs concerns about cybersecurity risks
Aug 21, 2013 — Self-driving cars are one of those things – like jetpacks and silver lamé bodysuits – that have come to be synonymous with “the future,” to represent everything we hope to achieve and everything we hope to become. But...
Imaging at the movies: Siemens, others contribute to accurate portrayal of technology and maybe even better stories
Aug 1, 2013 — I was sitting in the darkened theater, watching the credits roll by as I pondered what I’d just seen in Star Trek Into Darkness. I was only half-paying attention — mostly I was trying to decide whether (SPOILER ALERT) Spock’s...
Everything you need to know: Graduate program offers crash course in the politics of peer review
Jul 16, 2013 — The University of Leicester’s Journal of Physics Special Topics is kind of a downer. In perusing a single issue I discovered the following: The helicarrier — the flying aircraft carrier that’s home to a bunch of superspies in the...
Irreproducible research spurs reassessment of editorial guidelines
Jul 8, 2013 — Publish or perish, they say. But what if the pressure to do so is undermining the scientific process? C. Glenn Begley, senior vice-president at TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals in Malvern, Pa., is acutely aware of this possibility. Whenever he asks...
Brain scanning can improve road safety
Jun 27, 2013 — Do you ever find yourself glaring at the driver in the car next to you, thinking, “He’s totally not paying attention to the road”? Now an optical technique can help you confirm that suspicion. In a demonstration in San Francisco...
Laser weapons: An affordable answer to a costly problem
Jun 4, 2013 — You know you’re living in the future when the US Navy starts installing laser weapons on its ships. You really know you are when you hear the reason why: Those laser cannons zapping sea- and airborne threats like something out of Star Trek?...
The car of the future will be here soon. You just don’t know it yet.
May 14, 2013 — The future can be sly. We expect to wake up one day and suddenly have jetpacks and sentient robots trying to kill us. But as often as not the technology of the future comes at us slowly, incrementally. So it’s no great surprise when it finally...
Animal-rights activists break into facility in Milan, are smacked down online
May 1, 2013 — I almost always regret reading the comments sections of online articles. The speed with which they devolve into vitriol and simple, unrestrained idiocy is breathtaking and totally dispiriting. Millions of years of evolution give us the capacity for...
Is this the end for the academic journal?
Apr 16, 2013 — Imagine a world in which the academic paper is no longer the ultimate goal, the inviolable end product of science. It’s hard, isn’t it? For centuries, scientific journals have offered a means to communicate new findings and ideas to the...
The Peek-A-Boo Prober Capsule
Apr 1, 2013 — The future, as they say, is now. Everything we know today was once just a possibility, a germ of an idea that might come to fruition months or years or decades down the road. In the 1960s, the television series Star Trek offered a vision of the...
The secret history of the biophoton
Mar 22, 2013 — A friend handed me a business card for a holistic health & beauty practitioner. On the back of the card were an appointment reminder, a note about the practitioner’s cancellation policy and a list of the areas in which she was certified:...
Nerds, terraforming and dinosaurs with ray guns
Feb 28, 2013 — Consider this for a moment: Dinosaurs might still be alive today if they had had a space program. If dinosaurs — Stegosauruses, Velociraptors, whichever genus proved the most adept with a slide rule — had developed a means of traveling...
Valentine’s Day Edition: Oysters, rhino horn and other pseudoscience claims
Feb 14, 2013 — Here’s what I learned last night about aphrodisiacs: While oysters, ginseng and rhinoceros horn have all been touted as the perfect means to arouse or intensify sexual desire, none has ever been proven to have aphrodisiac qualities. Sure,...
5 applications of optics we totally didn’t see coming
Feb 1, 2013 — Call it the law of unintended application: No matter one’s objective in developing a new technology, no matter how much the technology promises to address an important, heretofore unmet need in society, somebody will come up with an entirely...
Our love affair with the videophone? It’s complicated, actually.
Jan 18, 2013 — In an age of Skype and FaceTime and the apparently imminent Google Glass, we embrace technologies that let us see whoever is on the other end of the line. But this wasn’t always the case. Back in the day, the videophone was viewed with...
The other side of the apocalypse
Dec 28, 2012 — We seem to have survived the end of the world, though we can hardly say we’ve survived it unscathed. Even in the context of an already difficult year, the past several months have felt like a brickbat to the head. A bruising campaign season...
That’s No Moon: Deconstructing the Death Star
Dec 14, 2012 — In the original Star Wars movie Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi begin to ask thought-provoking questions about the amount of energy needed to vaporize an entire planet, and what sort of laser could achieve this. Maybe an hour into the...
Bright Lights and Boardwalk Amusements
Nov 30, 2012 — The Atlantic City boardwalk was one of the first casualties of Sandy. Even before the hurricane made landfall in the US, images of the storied walkway splintered and broken and floating through the streets were cropping up online. Other points along...
Science and stuff with a wise-cracking Mars rover
Nov 16, 2012 — If you spend any amount of time in the Twittersphere, you’ve probably seen at least one of the following:(1) surprisingly snarky and even subversive tweets from the Queen of England and other public figures; (2) running commentary from...
Star Wars and the Light Side of the Force
Nov 6, 2012 — There was, thankfully, one bit of good news last week: On Tuesday, Disney announced it had acquired Lucasfilm and was planning the 2015 release of Star Wars: Episode VII, which most fans had given up hope of ever seeing. The internet erupted upon...
The Optics of Paranormal Activity
Oct 18, 2012 — The site of the now-shuttered Camp Evans, in Wall Township, N.J., has played host to the Ku Klux Klan, former Nazi scientists and Senator Joseph McCarthy, and is said to be among the most haunted in the state. A group called Behind the Wall...
The risks of “pay to play” in open access publishing
Sep 28, 2012 — In my last post, I discussed the potential impact of a move toward open access in academic publishing — in particular, with respect to commercial publishers and their bottom line. Publishers aren’t the only ones who might be affected,...
Open access and gloom and doom in academic publishing
Sep 24, 2012 — You may have read about the impending demise of commercial academic publishers. These rumors of their death, it seems, are greatly exaggerated. In July, the UK government announced that by 2014 “open access” publishing of results would...
The (Sometimes Sordid) History of X-ray Vision, Part 2
Aug 24, 2012 — The modern age of x-ray vision kicked off in the 1930s, though maybe not where you think. The Lady With the X-Ray Eyes, an absurdist novel by Bulgarian writer Svetoslav Minkov was published in Germany in 1934. Here, a young woman suffering...
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