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Internet Intercedes to Make Solar Cheaper

While researchers have struggled for half a century to push down the cost of solar photovoltaic modules, an innovative web service is creating communities of customers who pay less for solar panels through collective bargaining with installers. One ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Cute New Chameleon Discovered While Being Eaten by Snake

A new species of chameleon, measuring just 6 inches from snout to tail, has been discovered in east Tanzania’s mountains. Differentiated from other species by the pattern of scales on its head and the flat shape of its nose appendage, it was first ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

IR Image Shows Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast

A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building

The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching over more than two million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: State University of New York

Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast Revealed

A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Hubble Detects Galactic X-File

This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a strange, faint “X” shape extending from the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4710. Spiral galaxies are named for the arms curling outward from a central core of stars and gas. All of them have some ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NGC

Russian Cosmonaut’s Blog Much Funnier Than NASA

It’s not just NASA that’s hip to the social media game anymore. Now, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has one of its own blogging from the International Space Station. The blog, as translated by Russia Today, includes pictures from the ISS — and ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NASA,  Twitter Inc

New Site Tracks How Stimulus Dollars Flow to Science

More than $20 billion in stimulus money has poured into the nation’s universities, according to a new collection of data gathered by a trio of research consortia. California’s institutions were the big winners, snagging 1,602 grants worth almost $1.2 ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Pennsylvania

Civilian Supercomputer Shatters Nuke Simulator’s Speed Record

The retooled Jaguar supercomputer blew away the competition on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers in the world, clocking an incredible 1.759 petaflops — 1,759 trillion calculations per second. The machine, housed at the Department of Energy’s ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL, Wired,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jaguar,  Steven Chu,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  Los Alamos National Laboratory,  IBM

Plastic Boat: The Building of a High-Tech Eco-Stunt

Not all plastics are created equal — and to prove it, a rakish banking heir and a team of young adventurers have built a huge ship out of plastic. Called Plastiki, the 60-foot catamaran’s hull is made of a newly developed plastic that’s easier to ...

From ALEXIS MADRIGAL AND MCNAIR EVANS, Wired,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David de Rothschild

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