• A new search engine coming up: Wolfram Alpha.
• The Twitter Shorty Awards. - Twitter Etiquette.
• Robots!, Robots! Robots!
• Despite a sombre atmosphere at the World Economic Forum in Davos, young entrepreneurs are coming to the fore as Nobel prize winner Kofi Annan launches a group to give the young leaders of tomorrow a voice on global issues
• Windows 7: A Sight for Sore Vista Users
• Givology: Using Social Networks to Connect Education with the Developing World
• TV and movie writer-director Joss Whedon wants to change the way Hollywood does business. While Whedon works inside the studio system on major projects, he also hopes to blaze a trail on the Internet for creating and monetizing independently produced content. In doing so, he is confronting what he terms the "homogenized, globalized, monopolized entertainment system."
• New powers are needed to combat a culture of "pervasive" surveillance that has seen the UK become the most spied upon country in the world.
• The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y
• What Are the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years?
• While blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn't one of them.
• ITV puts Friends Reunited up for sale.
• Amazon.com on Feb. 9 unveiled the second-generation version of the Kindle electronic reading device.
• The Death Of "Web 2.0"
• Bosses to blame for computer attacks
• When Skittles Met Twitter - A bold social media marketing experiment on the Mars brand's home page prompted a lively debate at the fourth annual Social Media Conference
• How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders.
• McLaren say they face a race against time to match the pace of their rivals ahead of the opening Grand Prix of the 2009 Formula One season on 29 March.
• On February 3, the Indian government displayed a prototype of the Rs 500, a $10 laptop
• Netbooks: A bit popular
• Hybrid fusion-fission reactors to run on nuclear 'sludge'

• The Singularity University will offer courses in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and biotechnology
• Readers can now alter books as they go along.
• Audio: The Singularity University - The Guardian's Science Weekly team discusses Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity University
• Telling young people that science is not clever and elitist is a lie. We should be telling them that it is, and it's worth working for
  
• Pointing can boost toddlers' language skills, say researchers
• David Deamer, a biochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been saying that scientists would create synthetic life in "five or 10 years" for three decades, but finally he might actually be right. "The momentum is building," he says. "We're knocking at the door."
• A report from the European parliament concluded that computer games are good for children and teach them essential life skills.
• Evidence from psychology and neurology is emerging to explain how tactics like organised marching and propaganda can work to exert mass mind control.
• Babies that are looked after by their grandparents while their mothers are out at work are less ready for school than if they went to nurseries or creches, new research suggests.
• 101 Infrared Photographs
• Protons will be skirting around the 27-km Large Hadron Collider by the end of September, say CERN officials, with the first proton collisions expected four or five weeks later.
• As the US starts down the long road to military withdrawal from Iraq, the row over how many deaths were caused by the invasion has reignited.

• Half of Britons do not believe in evolution, survey finds - More than one-fifth prefer creationism or intelligent design, while many others are confused about Darwin's theory.
• How to (really) trust a mathematical proof
• The benefits of binge drinking - and Apparently, for all their admonitions about responsible drinking, it turns out that older adults aren't as good as young ones about knowing when to stop.
• Evolution: The next 200 years.
• In the emerging field of cavity optomechanics, physicists may have the opportunity to investigate the boundary between quantum and classical systems.
• The first step in creating circuits and logic gates made of live nerves grown in the lab.
• A decentralized social network linking researchers, papers, and reviews that, in theory, represents the scientific community.
• The selfless gene: Rethinking Dawkins's doctrine
  

Environment and Energy

• As global warming worsens, the idea of vast projects to alter the Earth's environment is moving from fantasy to necessity.
• Review: Eco-Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
• A U.S. scientist says Earth's atmospheric greenhouse gases are increasing more rapidly than expected, resulting in worsening global warming predictions. Chris Field, a member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says decisive action is needed
• The public, it seems, thinks climate scientists are less certain about their conclusions than they actually are.
• Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun's rays forming a 100,000 square mile "sun shade".
• As if the debate around using ethanol to fuel cars weren't already complicated enough, now an Islamic scholar has suggested that driving or even riding in a vehicle fueled by ethanol could be considered a sin for observant Muslims.
• Hacking the planet: The only climate solution left?
• All of Europe’s energy needs could be supplied by building an array of solar panels in the Sahara
• Religion might not be the only reason people buy into creationism and intelligent design, psychological experiments suggest.