City of Pods

City of Pods

This has been a productive week with setting up Drexel Island on Second Life. We have settled on a pod tree structure to house departments and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Eloise…
Atomic spectroscopy on a chip

Atomic spectroscopy on a chip

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have performed atomic spectroscopy with integrated optics on a chip for the first time, guiding a beam of light through a rubidium vapor cell…
How climate change created Mexican agriculture

How climate change created Mexican agriculture

New charcoal and plant microfossil evidence from Mexico’s Central Balsas valley links a pivotal cultural shift, crop domestication in the New World, to local and regional environmental history.…
EU project to develop first fuel-cell aircraft

EU project to develop first fuel-cell aircraft

Designing the first fuel-cell manned intercity aircraft is the goal of a recently launched EU-funded project. The Environmentally Friendly Inter City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells (ENFICA-FC)…
Pinning down the Butterfly Effect

Pinning down the Butterfly Effect

Belgian mathematician hopes to use the science of chaos, the butterfly effect and strange attractors to help build a complete model of climate and resources that will lead to a new approach to…
Fiftieth Anniversary of First Digital Image

Fiftieth Anniversary of First Digital Image

It was a grainy image of a baby—just 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters—but it turned out to be the well from which satellite imaging, CAT scans, bar codes on packaging, desktop publishing, digital…