] Such scientific conundrums are of only passing interest
] at Superpower, a four-year-old subsidiary of
] Intermagnetics General, and at other companies like it.
] After years of false starts and setbacks, these companies
] say they are closing in on the goal of producing
] relatively inexpensive superconducting wire for power
] generators, transformers and transmission lines.

The Biggest Jolt to Power Since Franklin Flew His Kite

] Dinosaurs may have been forced into extinction partly
] because there were too few females, say researchers in
] the UK. The claim revives a venerable debate.

Did dinosaurs lack daughters?: See-sawing climate may have fatally unbalanced sex ratio.

] Jupiter is undergoing major climate change and could lose
] many of its large spots over the next seven years, only
] to make way for the creation of fresh spots in a
] decades-long cycle, according to a new explanation of old
] mysteries.

USATODAY.com - Jupiter's spots disappear amid major climate change

] All those years on the couch playing Nintendo and
] PlayStation appear to be paying off for surgeons.
] Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three
] hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent
] fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the
] task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did
] not play video games.

Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less

] A leading mathematics journal has finally accepted that one
] of the longest-standing problems in the field

The Kepler conjecture about how efficiently you can pack oranges
into a box has been solved with the help of computers, a la the
1976 proof of the four color theorem. There's a lot of hand-wringing here ... there is no ghost in the machine whether
it be made of silicon or carbon. Deal with it, people.

In Math, Computers Don't lie ... or do they?

] Saturn looms large in the sharpest colour image yet taken
] of the planet by the approaching Cassini-Huygens
] spacecraft, due to arrive at the Ringed Planet on 1 July.

Saturn looms large in new image

] The Abel Prize, often described as a Nobel Prize for
] maths, has been awarded to two mathematicians for
] unifying swathes of mathematical theories that were once
] thought to be unrelated.

Maths 'Nobel' awarded: Pair get prize for formula that counts solutions to problems.

] Mar. 25--EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - More than two
] years after its first attempt ended in failure, NASA
] plans Saturday to fly a tiny unmanned aircraft designed
] to top 4,900 mph.

NASA to Fly Unmanned X-43A Test Plane Saturday

] A thread of carbon nanotubes more than 100 metres long
] has been pulled from a fiery furnace. The previous record
] holder was a mere 30 centimetres long.

100-metre Carbon Nanotube Produced

] NASA declared its Spirit rover cured Friday of the
] computer problems that had stalled it on Mars for more
] than two weeks, ending a crisis that had threatened its
] half of a double mission to seek evidence the planet once
] was wetter and hospitable to life.

NASA declares Mars Spirit rover 'healed' after memory repairs