Two German merchant ships have sailed through the once impassable North East Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along Russia's Arctic coast to Siberia.

How about that for an abstract discipline, and I thought CMS was abstract. Sounds great though: Social Innovation Generation: "Social innovation is an initiative, product, process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact. While social innovation has recognizable stages and phases, achieving durability and scale is a dynamic process that requires both emergence of opportunity and deliberate agency, and a connection between the two."

A startup with a secret recipe for printing cheap solar cells on aluminum foil debuted today, in what could end up a milestone.

a study from a dutch university

Tails trying to save their life - Even after they're no longer connected to a lizard brain, gecko tails can flip, jump and lunge in response to their environment.

Biologists have figured out the most efficient way to destroy an ecosystem - and it's based on the Google search algorithm. Scientists have long

Engineers launch a plan to start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere within 10 to 20 years.

Well appart from the space pen and that joke about the Russians just using a pencil. Has ESA had any space-originated inventions?

It's an article from April, now that we got Anreij's Google thing though is more actual - Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers. For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Business Tech.

bankruptcy #2

bankruptcy #1

The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth - a place where no human is thought to have ever set foot.

Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figures and predicting terrorist attacks before they happen.

not scientific but nice, Alien trailer voted best of all

marek's new gadget after the ha-wi-fi t-shirt

Single celled organisms may not be able to think, but they can act in remarkable ways

How Google finally makes its money, we were having this discussion some time ago

some really nice pictures from Mercury's flyby mission

July 14, 2009 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave, CA 6 Teams [KCSP, LM, USST, NSS, McGill, U MICH] 1 km vertical raceway, laser-powered vehicles $2,000,000 Total prize purse (two levels)