Science & Technology – Week of 06.01.14

US Panel Sets Sights on Mars
Nature | 04 June 2014
Sending humans to red planet touted as NASA’s wisest long-range goal…

New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones
Wall Street Journal | 02 June 2014
Ostendo’s Tiny Projectors Are Designed to Display Crisp Video, Glasses-Free 3-D Images…

Solar-Powered Aircraft Makes Inaugural Flight
RT | 02 June 2014
A solar-powered plane took its maiden voyage after an historic two-hour flight…

Google Maps Offers First SatNav Directions for Driving in North Korea
The Guardian | 02 June 2014
Crowd-sourcing has enabled Google Maps to plot journeys inside the secretive state…

On the Nature of Digital Transformation: 10 Observations
Medium
A few things I’ve noticed about how technology works…

A Maryland Inventor’s Big Energy Ideas Have Promise, and Big Ifs
Anchorage Daily News | 27 May 2014
While scientists are engaged in an all-out, worldwide scramble to avert the energy and climate change crises…

Flying on Sunshine – a Solar Jet Fuel
Cosmos | 26 May 2014
Using the simplest of ingredients – sunlight, CO2 and water – researchers in Europe have brewed jet fuel…

Solar to Match Coal in China by 2016, Threatening Fossil Dominance
The Telegraph | 30 May 2014
Here is a story to cheer us all up…