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Inside Seagate's R&D Labs
As Moore's Law runs out of steam, the big leaps in computer technology are coming from hard-drive manufacturers. How about a 300-terabit iPod in a few years -- big enough to store the entire uncompressed Library of Congress? Rob Beschizza tours Seagate's labs in Pittsburgh.

A Giant Step Toward Tiny Functional Nanowires
A team of Northwestern University scientists turned to chemistry and developed a new method that can routinely and cheaply produce nanowires with gaps as small as five nanometers wide -- a feat that is unattainable using conventional lithographic techniques.

Age Is More Than A Number: In Barn Owls, It Reveals How Susceptible On
Fluctuations in weather and the environment affect survival and reproduction of animals. But are all individuals within a population equally susceptible? Theory on the evolution in age-structured populations suggests not -- those life stages that are more important for overall fitness should be less susceptible to environmental variation than other life stages.

Local Interventions Have Little Effect On Metapopulation Stability
Sutirth Dey and Amitabh Joshi of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India used laboratory metapopulations of fruitflies in the first experimental test of whether a constant localized perturbation can stabilize a real biological metapopulation.

Molecular Test Can Predict Both The Risk Of Breast Cancer Recurrence A
A new test can predict both the risk of breast cancer recurrence and may identify women who will benefit most from chemotherapy, according to research supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and performed in collaboration with the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) and Genomic Health Inc.

Gear Gallery: IPhone, Biker's Backpack, Video Boombox and More
Wired editors tout the latest, greatest gear (and torch the lamest stuff to hit store shelves).

We're Here, We're Warming, Can We Get Used To It?
Global warming conversations have shifted from whether climate is changing to how we will deal with the inevitable consequences. And the price you pay will depend on where you live and how well you prepare, suggests one of the most detailed studies to date on global warming and its likely effect on human activity.

[Misc] Missing grand fork found in Grand Forks
The grand fork has been found.The 6-foot-tall utensil-one of about 50 in an "Unforkettable"collection scattered around Grand Forks as tourist attractions-disappeared over the weekend from outside the city's Chamber of Commerce building.

Gene, Stem Cell Therapy Only Needs To Be 50 Percent Effective To Creat
A muscular dystrophy patient should be able to maintain a normal lifestyle if only 50 percent of the cells of the heart are healthy, according to a new article. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and greatly affects the quality and length of life for individuals with specific forms of muscular dystrophy. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that gene and/or stem cell therapy could help a variety of organs in the body, but until now scientists have been unsure whether the heart could benefit from these treatments.

Hematology: Protein Helps Determine When Red Blood Cells Die
The accumulation of high levels of oxidants in red blood cells dramatically decreases their lifespan and is associated with anemia. Little was known about the molecular regulation of the response to oxidants in red blood cells, but in a new study the protein FoxO3 is now shown to be required for mouse red blood cells to control their levels of oxidants and it is therefore probable that Fox03 regulates the lifespan of these cells.

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