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X-51 Scramjet Will Launch Later This Month. New Scientist (5/7, Courtland) reported, "In the last week of May, thousands of square miles of airspace above the Pacific Ocean will be cleared to make way for a skinny, shark-nosed aircraft called the X-51." The scramjet will be dropped from a jet, where it will attempt to maintain hypersonic speeds for minutes. Boeing X-51 Program Manager Joe Vogel..

Scientists Warn Jordan River Could Dry Up By 2011. The AP (5/4) reported a team of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmental scientists released a report saying that "large stretches" of the Jordan River "could dry up by 2011. And much of what remains is nothing but a canal of sewage." According to the report, "sadly, it is one of the efforts to save the river that has helped doom it. ....

Cluster Of Smartphone Chips To Emulate 1 Billion Neuron Brain. New Scientist (5/4, Marks) reported that Steve Furber, a computer engineer at the University of Manchester, is planning a "1-billion-neuron silicon brain" made from low-cost microchips. Furber argues "that if we want to use computers with even a fraction of a brain's flexibility, we need to start with affordable, practical, low-powe..

New Bluetooth Technology Expected To Reduce Power Consumption. The AP (4/20) reports, "A new version of the Bluetooth wireless technology could expand what can be done by watches, toys, home sensors, medical monitors and other devices that typically have been limited in their functions because they don't get their batteries changed or charged very often." A low-energy version of Bluetooth was o..

Farmers Sue Bayer CropScience Over Genetically Modified Rice. The AP (3/29) reports on a type of genetically altered rice called Liberty Link, which was developed by Belgian researchers to "withstand a popular herbicide that kills weeds in the fields," and eventually came to be owned by Bayer CropScience. Now, "lawyers for Bayer CropScience are in an Arkansas courtroom, fighting the latest of s..

Air Force's Top Scientist Focused On Scramjets, Lasers. The Los Angeles Times (3/26, Barnes) reports on Werner J.A. Dahm, "the chief scientist for the Air Force," whose "job is to separate promising ideas from the stuff of 'Star Trek.' He advises generals in an era of tightening research and development budgets which scientific innovations are worth pursuing -- or not." Among the new technologi..

China Planning High-Speed Rail Link To London. Popular Science (3/17, Dillow) reports on China's "plans to extend its high-speed network all the way to London" by 2020, "with a rail line that will fly through 17 countries at speeds reaching 200 miles per hour." In all, three lines are being planned. In addition to a link between London and Beijing, "a second line will connect China with Southea..

Spider Silk Research Could Lead To Stronger, More Flexible Materials. The Daily Telegraph (UK) (3/15, Alleyne) reports, "Researchers found that spider silk employs a unique crystal structure that converts an otherwise weak material into one stronger and less brittle than steel or ceramics. They believe in future it may be possible to copy spider ingenuity to create new classes of materials that..

Tobacco May Help Clean Up Pond Scum Toxin. Discovery News (3/10) reports tobacco, helped by "a couple extra genes" may disarm "a dangerous environmental toxin, called toxic pond scum," which "is a type of algae that makes water unsafe for drinking, swimming, fishing or watering crops." Pond scum poses "a big problem in the developing world," said Pascal Drake, a plant biotechnologist at St. Geo..

South Korea Plans To Launch "National App Store" With Public Data. Popular Science (3/1, Hsu) reports that "the South Korean government hopes to launch its own "national app store" in the form of a universal API for public data, which would encourage private companies and developers to create and sell apps based on that data," according to a Korea Times report. However, "South Korean officials ..

Eurocopter Introduces New, Quieter Blade Technologies. The Wired (2/25, Paur) "Autopia" blog reported Eurocopter "unveiled its most recent effort to reduce helicopter noise with the radical-looking Blue Edge rotor blade." The new blade, which was tested on EC155 helicopters, "was shown to reduce noise 3 to 4 decibels." Additionally the company introduced a new technology called Blue Pulse which..

Researchers To Test Method For Vaccine Production Using Tobacco Plants. The Wired (2/24, Drummond) "Danger Room" blog reports that "a team at Texas A&M may have come up with a way to turn tobacco plants into vaccine-making machines." The Texas Plant-Expressed Vaccine Consortium is receiving $40 million from DARPA to "test the tobacco-based method and then offer up 10 million doses of H1N1 vacci..

DARPA Plans Test Flight For Prototype Hypersonic Weapon. The Wired (2/22, Hodge) "Danger Room" blog reports that DARPA "is planning an April test flight for a prototype of a hypersonic weapon that - in theory - could cross the Pacific Ocean in under two hours." An unpowered version of the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) "will be launched on a booster rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Bas..

Remote-Controlled Roaches Could Be Used To Detect Radiation. The Wired (2/17, Drummond) "Danger Room" blog reports, "A team of nuclear engineers at Texas A&M's Nuclear Science and Policy Institute attached radioactivity sensors to the backs of cockroaches, meant to scope out different kinds of nuclear material. The cockroaches are remote-controlled, so officials could unleash them into potentia..

Michigan State University To Establish Bio-Digital Evolution Center. The AP (2/18, Goodman) reports, "The National Science Foundation has awarded $25 million to Michigan State University to create a center for the joint study of natural and digital evolution." According to Erik Goodman, the director of Bio/computational Evolution in Action Consortium, or BEACON, "the center will conduct basic a..

More Wind Tunnel Tests Planned For Ducted-Fan Propulsion System. Aviation Week (2/11, Warwick) reported, "American Dynamics Flight Systems will wind tunnel test the ducted-fan propulsion system for its proposed AD-150 vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft with support from the University of Maryland (UMD)." A scale version of the High Torque Aerial Lift (HTAL) was wind tunnel tested at ..

Laser System Designed To Track, Kill Mosquitoes. The Wired (2/11, Zetter) "Epicenter" blog reports on "a 'Death Star' laser gun" featured at this year's Technology, Entertainment and Design conference that is "designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight." Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, which developed the device, is "currently examining how cost effective it would be to deploy the device ..

NASA, GM's Robonaut2 To Mimic Human Movement, Behavior. Technology Review (2/12) reports on the Robonaut2, a humanoid robot being developed by NASA and General Motors that "is designed to closely mimic the shape, movement, and behavior of a human." These traits "could make it ideally suited to working alongside humans, or for testing human spacecraft and living quarters, but it also presents so..

Gigabit-Per-Second Wireless Network Uses Infrared Light. Technology Review (2/11, Jonietz) reports that researchers at Penn State have developed "a wireless network that uses reflected infrared light instead of radio waves." The system "has transmitted data through the air at a speed of one gigabit per second--six to 14 times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi network." Valencia M. Joyner, an assist..

Google Announces Ultrahigh-Speed Internet Experiment. On the front page of its business section, the New York Times (2/11, B1, Helft) reports that Google yesterday announced "it would offer ultrahigh-speed Internet access in some communities in a test that could showcase the kinds of things that would be possible if the United States had faster broadband networks. In Google's vision of the futu..