State of the Art Medical Robots

http://www.newscientist.com/projects/misc/video?bcpid=25196461001&bclid=1904732932&bctid=38378257001

Are Cell Phones Killing Bees?

Colony Collapse Disorder, the broad term for the reason 60% of bee colonies have died out since 2005, has been blamed on fungus and parasites, but now there’s another culprit.

Dr. Sainudeen Pattazhy, a Reader in Zoology from Kerala, India, found the following:

“When a mobile phone was kept near a beehive it resulted in collapse of the colony in five to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to return home, leaving the hives with just queens, eggs and hive-bound immature bees.”

Seems like a huge finding, but what the hell is a Reader in Zoology? Maybe someone can comment on this man’s accreditation.

Artificial Photosynthesis Makes Solar Capture More Efficient

Super efficient solar energy capture has taken a leap forward with new techniques from Japan. Check it out:

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=9256.php

News, on your computer?

Here’s a 1981 report on news on the internet. What a kooky idea.

Urban Ecology

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/27/solar-forest-charging-system-for-parking-lots/

computers are a crutch leading us to nanotechnology

transistors as a technological training wheel to get us to nanobots, at which point we can build better computers out of crystals and bioorganisms

http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/