'Asian Haze' Impacts On Australian Rainfall Science Daily
Elevated particle emissions resulting from increased economic activity in Asia may have increased Australia's CSIRO scientist posits a link between atmospheric pollution in Asia and increased rainfall in Australia.
Beyond Silicon: New Transistor Technology May Power Next Microelectronic Devices Science Daily
MIT engineers have demonstrated a technology that could introduce an important new phase of the microelectronics revolution that has already brought us iPods, laptops and much more.
Just try to top this one, Stanford Contra Costa Times
Nobel Prize laureate calls on UC Berkeley marching band to illustrate big-bang theory.
Nobel laureate gets Big Bang out of Cal's marching band Oakland Tribune
The University of California, Berkeley, marching band has long been well known, but its members never had been stars like this before.
Franklin's lessons weather test of time Contra Costa Times
The year was 1752. Dark storm clouds massed over a young Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin, tired of waiting for the installation of a metal rod atop the town's tallest building, hoisted key and kite skyward to test a theory about lightning.
Benjamin Franklin's ideas weather the long test of time Oakland Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO — The year was 1752. Dark storm clouds massed over a young Philadelphia.
Genome DNA research enlists numbers crunchers International Herald Tribune
Thirty years ago, Nick Patterson worked for the code-breaking British agency that unscrambles intercepted messages. Today, at 59, he is tackling perhaps the toughest code of all — the human genome.
Star Trek: Legacy PC CNET
This starship combat game simply can't overcome bad controls, frustrating mission designs, and a mess of bugs.
Nobel laureate gets Big Bang out of Cal's marching band Oroville Mercury-Register
The University of California, Berkeley, marching band has long been well known, but its members never had been stars like this before. Nobel Prize laureate George Smoot recruited the band for a demonstration of the Big Bang that was filmed for last week's Nobel ceremonies in Sweden.
Haircut leads to moon, Mars The Huntsville Times
Phil Sumrall's NASA career got a big boost when he met German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun in a Huntsville barber shop in the 1960s.
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