Robot Photography on Mars [Table of Malcontents]
"Google Mars" is now higher-resolution than "Google New Mexico," thanks for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Annalee Newitz peers through the most modern telescope in the system.
Noise-Canceling Headphone Concept Cuts Boat Noise [The Listening Post]
Sound is vibrating air, and the easiest way to cancel sound is to immediately apply the inverse, an equal and opposite vibration. That's how noise-cancelling earphones work, and they're going to use ithe same principle on boats to shut them up. Eliot Van Buskirk listens in.
Darwinia Dev Eyeing Consoles [Game|Life]
Introversion, following the success of Darwinia and Defcon, want to develop games for consoles. Susan Arendt reports.
USDA: 31% of US Corn Will Go for Ethanol by 2016 [Autopia]
Soon even the cars in Iowa will be corn-fed. Mark Durham on the growing market.
