Science & Technology – Week of 01.19.14

A Radiation Detector In Your Smartphone
NPR| 23 January 2013
A smartphone camera can make you a walking gamma ray detector…

2013 Invention Awards: Cardboard Bike
Popular Science | 07 May 2013
A $30 ride made of recycled packaging, bottles, and car parts…

An Infection Turns Swarming Locusts Into Solitary Grasshoppers, Study Finds
Popular Science | 14 January 2014
It’s as if eating an undercooked hamburger could transform a human hardcore partier into a hermit…

How I Transformed Sewage Into Fresh Water
Popular Science | 13 January 2014
Say the apocalypse happens tomorrow…

Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It
The Wall Street Journal | 17 January 2014
Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it…

Nasa Says ‘Doughnut Rock’ on Mars is ‘Like Nothing We’ve Ever Seen Before’
Belfast Telegraph | 20 January 2014
Rock like a ‘jelly doughnut’ has left scientists ‘completely confused’…

Robot Spaceship Wakes Up to Harpoon Comet in ‘Moby-Dick’ Style Hunt Through Space
RT | 20 January 2014
A 10-year space hunt is set to reach its climax as the spaceship Rosetta has been woken up Monday from a two and a half year slumber to harpoon a passing comet…

‘Smart Contact Lens’ Could Help Millions With Diabetes
BBC News | 17 January 2014
Google has announced it’s testing a smart contact lens that can help measure glucose levels in tears…

Cyberattack Traced to Hacked Refrigerator, Researchers Report
Phys.org | 17 January 2014
Call it the attack of the zombie refrigerators…