Gannon Technologies is developing a technology that can determine whether multiple handwriting samples were penned by the same hand with very high accuracy.

The debate about the amount of water currently on Mars still rages on. But new mineralogical evidence from the Mars Express probe is suggesting it was certainly wet in the past, and went through three successive ‘epochs’, with water presence declining as time passes.

I love listening to great writers expound on the techniques of their art. Charles Stross has posted a short article on his blog discussing the narrative modes used in storytelling, with reference to his attempt to break with convention in his current project. Informative and amusing, much like the man in person.

Forbes has an article up about a professor in Oregon who has created a microreactor that turns vegetable oil into biodiesel.

We always want more from our electronics – faster, cheaper, more efficient. Computer memory is no exception, so fellow technophiles will be pleased to hear that engineers at the UK’s Cambridge University have managed to make memory cells from superconductive materials, by harnessing some magnetic and quantum trickery. Devices made this way will be smaller and faster than current technology, but vastly more sensitive to magnetic fields.