ESA funded scientists have managed to measure the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field under special laboratory conditions. A spinning superconductor appears to be producing an acceleration field by gravitomagnetic means, opening the door on new research aimed at uncovering the much-coveted quantum theory of gravity.

Bruce Schenier does his usual pragmatic evisceration of the conventional wisdom, this time on airport security. Screening bags is a job, he says, that humans do poorly and computers do well. But screening bags is security too late.

We all carry around a map of our personal geographies, places where memories were formed and personal histories recorded. Platial uses the Google Maps API to make the personal geographies incarnate, and public if you’re so inclined.

Kevin Kelly has some fascinating ideas about where science as a practice is going in the next 50 years. Just the topic headings make for crunchy, futurismic reading: compiled negative results, triple blind experiments, combinatorial sweep exploration, and the list goes on.