A research team at the University of Glasgow have unveiled details regarding a new nanotech process that could dramatically boost the data-carrying capacity your typical computer chip. How much? Try 500,000 GB of data on one square inch of space. More details on this finding are available in the full article.

China is quite literally pulling out the heavy artillery to ensure that this year's Beijing Olympics go off without a hitch.

The event's official had unveiled their plans to seed any incoming clouds in the city with a combination of rockets, cannons, and even aircraft. More details on Beijing's war on clouds are available in the full article.

Longer-lasting, cheaper Blu-Ray discs? Possible, at least of you're following Sabic Innovative Plastic' current research into using Noryl as a material for the aforementioned disc format. More details on this matter are available in the full article.

The Solutions Research Group (SRG) has recently posted the results of a study taken from October 2007 to February 2008. Among other details, the study indicates that women are very much interested in today's tech. More so, surprisingly, than the guys. The details of this research are in the full article.

According to new research, Brazil may have to widen the legal minimum imposed on the Amazon rainforest's establish wildlife corridors if it is to protect the forest's biodiversity.

Details on the research conducted by the University of East Anglia are in the full article.

NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has reportedly undocked from the International Space Station, and should be touching down on terra firma by this Wednesday.

Going along on the shuttle's trip home is astronaut Daniel Tani, who had been on the ISS since last October. Details regarding this matter are in the full article.

A recently published study promises a gene procedure that may leave the body immune to otherwise deadly diseases such as the Avian Flu.

The key to this research is in the behavior of the interferon protein, a major component of the body's natural immune system. Details are in the full article. Just click the "read more" link below.

Nothing like visual aids to get the point across. NASA has recently released a video simulating the Arctic's sea ice cover - the semi-permanent frozen seawater that surrounds the region. The video will illustrate the region's perennial ice cover for the end of the summer of the year 2005, before comparing it to 2007 and 1979's perennial ice covers.

In case the video's a little hard to figure out, here's NASA's explanation on the visuals:

The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average.

As you guys may recall, the United Nations came out with its own Global Environment Outlook regarding this topic. If these apparently linked reports from the UN and NASA are accurate, we may be looking at some very grim prospects for the years to come.

For the victims of natural calamities as massive as Hurricane Katrina, one major hurdle to be faced (aside from finding clean, drinkable water) is the prospect of finding proper housing. For these sort of victims, the best solution thy can look forward to is portable housing that's both easy to deploy and maintain (for the would-be residents), and cheap and simple to manufacture (for the builders).

With that said, we're letting you guys know of this exhibit underway showcasing portable housing concepts being proposed by several architects. That particular house you're looking at above is dubbed the Future Shack, and was designed by Australian Sean Godsell. This design makes use of an old shipping container, and thanks to its telescoping legs, is capable of being deployed on any terrain within 24 hours.

The Future Shack can also be folded up into itself for easy transport out of the area. That's a sample of the sort of ideas these architects have in mind - you can view Wired's full exhibit via the read link below.

With all the heat being generated (no pun intended) by recent movements to prevent global warming, could we have been too late after all? This is idea being pushed by scientist Tim Flannery, based on a report by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that's scheduled for release this November.

According to the Flannery, the IPCC's upcoming report indicated that atmospheric greenhouse gasses had reached about 455 parts per million by mid-2005. In layman's terms, this means that the amount of climate-changing gasses in the atmosphere passed the threshold two years ago. Flannery attributed the readings to economic development worldwide, which was heavily dependent on the use of fossil fuels.

Flannery further stated that given the readings, current policies should focus on preserving tropical forests in countries like Indonesia, Brazil and Papua New Guinea. As the scientist elaborated:

We can reduce emissions as strongly as we like. Unless we can draw some of the standing stock of pollutants out of the air and into the tropical forests, we'll still face unacceptable levels of risk in 40 years time.

The IPCC report is expected to influence the U.N. climate change talks on the Indonesian island of Bali this December. The U.N talk is expected to focus on a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which is scheduled to expire by 2012.