Science & Technology - The New American

Government Funding Down; Scientists Experiment With “Crowd-Funding” Websites

In recent decades such a large portion of scientific research has been funded by governments, either directly or through government-funded universities, that most...

Michael Tennant July 12, 2011

NASA Administrator Ponders a Post-Shuttle Era

James Heiser July 12, 2011

As the space shuttle Atlantis orbits the earth on its final flight, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is attempting to chart a new course...

Keeping the Final Space Shuttle Mission in Perspective

James Heiser July 8, 2011

As the last flight of NASA’s space shuttle began with a photogenic launch this morning, the future of manned space flight is far...

Apple Pulls Anti-Israel App.

Dave Bohon June 23, 2011

Apple has honored a request from Israel to pull a free iPhone application from its online store that the Israeli government said incited...

Facebook to Launch Its Own iPad App

Daniel Sayani June 20, 2011

Facebook for iPhone is the most-downloaded iPhone app ever, but more than a year after Apple introduced the iPad, there is still a...

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I.B.M. Releases New Graphene Circuits

Daniel Sayani June 13, 2011

I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from...

Natural Gas — Yours for the Fracing

Ed Hiserodt June 10, 2011

At first glance the concepts of horizontal drilling for oil and natural gas and hydraulic fracturing, a method of extracting oil and gas...

Federal Govt Has Recruited One-Fourth of U.S. Hackers as Informants

Daniel Sayani June 10, 2011

The FBI and Secret Service have successfully infiltrated the underground world of computer hackers in the United States, and now 25 percent of...

Natural Gas — the Coming Shale Gale

Ed Hiserodt June 9, 2011

“The oil and natural gas we rely on for 75 percent of our energy are running out,” warned the President in a televised...

Germany to Abandon Use of Nuclear Power

James Heiser June 2, 2011

The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9 earthquake on March 11 has had aftershocks of its...

Unleashing Our Energy Resources

William F. Jasper May 25, 2011

John Felmy is chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute (API), responsible for overseeing the organization’s economic, statistical, and policy analysis. He has...

Service Versus Surveillance: Has Computer Technology Outpaced the Legal System?

Beverly K. Eakman May 25, 2011

First, the short version: Privacy? "Fuggedaboudit!" You can encrypt your messages, lock your laptop and password-protect your various accounts till your fingers fall...