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"Open Journal Systems "Scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access..." Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002 Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research."

What is this? This is a free service for academics and anyone else who writes papers with citations and a bibliography but doesn't use fancy bibliographic software. What does it do? You upload your paper, and the program scans if for citations. Then it compares what it finds to the paper's references section and reports any inconsistencies: citations that don't match an entry in the references section, and references that don't match any citation in the paper. You might think it won't find any, but you'd be surprised. Oh, it also reports the number of times you cite each source, which you may find interesting.

We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means. We have already used the nanotube radio to receive and play music from FM radio transmissions such as Layla by Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominos) and the Beach Boy's Good Vibrations. The nanotube radio's extremely small size could enable radical new applications such as radio controlled devices small enough to exist in the human bloodstream, or simply smaller, cheaper, and more efficient wireless devices such as cellular phones.