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Best of the Week: Saturday, November 07, 2009

Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
Materials | By Katherine Bourzac | 1 Comment
Biodegradable circuits could enable better neural interfaces and LED tattoos.
Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
Energy | 7 Comments
A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible.
Molecular Sunglasses for Macular Degeneration
Biomedicine
Dampening a light-sensing reaction in the eye might slow a common cause of blindness.
An App so You'll Never Forget
Computing | 3 Comments
Adaptive-learning algorithms calculate how often people need to see information to remember it.
A Test Ride with the Droid
Communications | 11 Comments
Motorola's new Android-based smart phone is a viable iPhone alternative.
Friday, November 06, 2009
More Energy in Batteries
By Katherine Bourzac | Materials | 1 Comment
Nanowire anodes could let lithium-ion batteries run twice as long.
Sequencing Price Drops Even Lower
By Emily Singer | Biomedicine
Start-up Complete Genomics reveals three new human genomes.
Splitting Up Search
By Duncan Graham-Rowe | Web | 1 Comment
Distributing a search engine's index around the world could make it faster and more efficient, researchers say.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
A Battery-Free Implantable Neural Sensor
By Kate Greene | Computing | 1 Comment
A tiny radio chip implanted in a moth harvests power and senses neural activity.
Spraying on Skin Cells to Heal Burns
By Lauren Gravitz | Biomedicine | 5 Comments
A new technique in burn treatment provides an alternative to skin grafts in the operating room.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Stealthy Nanoparticles Attack Cancer Cells
By Emily Singer | Business | 4 Comments
Drugs embedded in special polymers can more effectively shrink tumors.
Software Listens for Hints of Depression
By Jennifer Chu | Biomedicine | 2 Comments
A large-scale trial will test whether software can identify depressed patients.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Can Amazon's PayPhrase Combine Convenience with Security?
By Robert Lemos | Web
Amazon hopes its latest payment technology will steal its competitors' thunder.
Monday, November 02, 2009
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Getting Beyond Petroleum Won't Be Easy
By Stephen Cass | Energy | 15 Comments
Stealth-Mode Wind Turbines
By Peter Fairley | Energy | 6 Comments
Coatings and composites ease the air-traffic worries dogging wind power.
First Test for Election Cryptography
By Erica Naone | Web | 5 Comments
Novel voting technology will be used in a local government election.

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Spots 'n' pimples
by kfc | 11/07/2009
Computer-Predicted Catalysis
by Katherine Bourzac | 11/06/2009
U.S. Congress Considers Geoengineering
by Kevin Bullis | 11/06/2009
Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters
by Kristina Grifantini | 11/06/2009 | 2 Comments

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