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Science Link Round-Up: September 12, 2008

12 Sep 2008  Science

Astronomy

Discover amazes you with Ten things you don’t know about the Earth.

Is it time to rethink space exploration? Sir David King suggests thinks we need to “re-think of priorities in science and technology and a redrawing of our society’s inner attitudes towards science and technology.”

When its time to move to the Moon, we may be building our homes out of lunar dirt.

Biology

Scientist have discovered a method of Determining your Country of Origin from you DNA.

The world’s first cloned Dog has fathered his first liter.

“Water Bears” are tiny six-legged creatures that can survive in the vacuum of space, making them the only lifeform that will survive the coming alien-precipitated apocalypse.

Your Mercedes’ seat may be making you sterile. Serves you right.

Physics

The New York Times examines Science’s Ten Most Beautiful Experiments.

The true story of How two students built an A-bomb.

Technology

20 Marvels of Modern Engineering.

Racetrack memory, which uses nanowires to store data may be The Key to Smaller, More Powerful Gadgets.

Stanford’s ‘autonomous’ helicopters teach themselves to fly in a manner eerily similar to that of sci-fi films.

Switched-on new nanotechnology paints for hospitals could kill superbugs.

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