BBC/Technology 04/25/04 People feel loyalty to computers: People tend to develop strong ties to a specific computer, even if it means waiting to use their favourite machine, say researchers.

PC World 04/26/04 Blue Laser Products Emerge: High-capacity DVDs based on blue laser technology are still a ways off for consumers, but video professionals may soon get their hands on the new storage technology. Sony expects to release its blue laser rewritable DVD drives in the U.S. in June.

TechNewsWorld 04/26/04 IBM, Stanford Launch 'Spintronics' Research Project: "Superior optical properties of semiconductors and their ability to amplify both optical and electrical signals ...will eventually contribute to the emergence of semiconductor spintronics,"

NPR Science Friday 04/23/04 New Science Museum in Washington DC: A new science museum opens in Washington DC this week -- and it's not pulling any punches, taking on tough topics including climate change. Windows or Realaudio content.

PR Newswire 04/22/04 Habitat for Humanity Home Receives Solar Powered Roof: A Habitat for Humanity home being refurbished in an affordable housing area of Sacramento, California, taps the power of the sun with a building integrated photovoltaic roofing system by United Solar Ovonic LLC, The project is in response to Governor Schwarzenegger’s solar initiative to increase the use of residential solar energy throughout California. When more power is produced by the photo-voltaic cells than the home needs, power will be fed back into the grid making the meter spin backwards.

Popular Science May 04 Best of What's Next - Four winning industrial designs to keep you a pace ahead of life.: How can we find fresh ways to incorporate speed into our everyday lives? To field answers, we issued a challenge via Core77 (an online design community that receives 250,000 visits a day). Following are the four designs we'd like to see built--tomorrow.

New Scientist 04/26/04 Oceans rising faster near coasts: Satellite measurements of sea levels have uncovered a bizarre effect - the sea seems to be rising faster near shore than in mid-ocean.

Scientific American 04/22/04 Fatherless Mice Created in Lab: Many plants and lower animals, such as insects and reptiles, can reproduce asexually using only maternal DNA through a process termed parthenogenesis.  Now scientists writing in the journal Nature report having created the first fatherless mice, one of which has survived to adulthood and given birth to her own young.

Wired 04/25/04 Nuke Mosquito, End Malaria?: The UN is harnessing nuclear technology to try to eradicate the mosquitoes whose bite transmits malaria, a deadly disease devastating Africa..

New Scientist 04/24/04 Empathy may not be uniquely human quality: New research suggests empathy requires no specialized brain area, meaning there is no reason why monkeys and other animals cannot empathize too