October 2007 News Analysis

Deep-Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Disease Increase Impulsive Decision Making

Electronic brain implants make it harder to decide what's better than good

Imperceptible Vibrations Slow Weight Gain

Low-level mechanical signals inhibit fat-cell production in mice

Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell for Powering Small Circuits

Harvard group builds working photovoltaic cell just 300 nanometers across

Geneva Vote Will Use Quantum Cryptography

First real-world use of physics-based encryption

Chips Tracked in Fab by Wi-Fi

Freescale furthers the removal of humans from the chip-making process

Helmets Sense The Hard Knocks

Wireless device will let coaches pull football players before they suffer brain damage

Fairchild Turns 50

The iPhone's Missing Buttons

Valuable real estate on the main screen won't stay vacant for long

Space Station: Internal NASA Reports Explain Origins of June Computer Crisis

A mistake like that on the way to Mars would be fatal

Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines

A small dc current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them

Cars Get Street Smart

No thanks to DARPA

Quantum Tunneling Creates Fast Lane For Wireless

Star Wars on your iPod in 2.5 seconds

Bionic Hand

The big picture

The Technology Behind the Formula One Scandal

A British team got secrets about Ferrari's tech tricks by e-mail

Alternative Knife for Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss

Medical-device manufacturers look to cash in by trimming the fat

Physicists Figure Out How Microscopic Wires Fail

Kinks caused by nanometer-scale avalanches

Military Experiments Target the Van Allen Belts

Satellite and Alaskan array will test whether RF injections into the ionosphere could halt geomagnetic storms.