2 share Nobel for work on hard drives
France’s Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets billions of computer users store reams of data on computer hard drives.

The Economist’s Open Online Debate on Education & Technology
The Economist is holding a debate on Education and Technology, and its asking Mashable readers to take part. Participation is free, and there’s no subscription necessary.

Vonage settles patent suit with Sprint
The beaten-down shares of Vonage Holdings Corp. more than doubled in value Monday after the Internet phone company said it had settled a patent suit filed by Sprint Nextel Corp… Sprint also agreed to license Vonage its portfolio of more than 100 patents on connecting calls between a regular telephone network and a packet-switched network such as the Internet.

Scary games to get you in the Halloween spirit
Don’t just watch a creepy movie to get into the Halloween spirit. You can star in one virtually speaking with a handful of video games designed to fright and delight.

Predictify Goes Live Today: Make Money for Being Right
Predictify, the site that lets you earn money by making accurate predictions on various events, has officially launched its public beta today. Founded by an ex-Google product manager along with a former VP at Zazzle, Predictify is going after the wisdom of the crowd to guess the outcome of things like Michael Vick’s prison sentence, and how many iPhones will sell by December 31, 2007.

Blue Coat Battles Cybercrime With Anti-Phishing Technology
The security company is adding a real-time anti-phishing feature to its Web filtering appliance, enabling companies to analyze Web pages on the fly.

Futuristic car makes reversing obsolete
TOKYO (Reuters) - For all those drivers that hate parallel parking and anything else that requires the reverse gear, Nissan could one day have the car for you.
The cab of the car can rotate 360 degrees.

Now Nissan’s Pivo concept car can drive sideways too
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. on Friday unveiled a new version of its egg-shaped Pivo concept car that can drive sideways and has a small robot to assist with navigation or calm down angry drivers.

Sci Fi No More: Cars That Fight Thieves
Imagine a technology that could make high speed police chases - which killed 404 people last year - a thing of the past. GM is first in line, beginning in 2009, with 20 models that can be slowed down via OnStar if a thief is in the driver’s seat.

Could vertical farming be the future?
Rice on the seventh floor. Wheat on the twelfth. And enough food within an 18-story tower to feed a small city of 50,000.

Family Infighting Hurts the Heart
Spats with spouse, kids, others boosts cardiovascular dangers, study finds

Parkinson’s Linked to Risk of Alzheimer’s
Relatives of Parkinson’s patients more likely to develop dementia, study finds

Black Women Get Less Breast Cancer Treatment
Study finds they’re much less likely than whites to get tamoxifen, for example

Blood Vessels Grown From Patient’s Skin
For the first time, scientists have successfully implanted blood vessels grown from a patient’s own cells.

3 New Lung Cancer Genes Identified
They are associated with 20 percent of all lung malignancies, scientists say.

Studies Probe Weaknesses in Donated Blood
It’s never as good as the body’s own at delivering oxygen to tissue, researchers say.

Why Men Dominate Math and Science Fields
Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal, academic, corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains, and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible.

Chimps Act Like Humans: Mine! Mine! Mine!
People often strangely consider something more valuable once they own it. Now scientists find this same apparently irrational behavior in chimps, a finding that could help shed light on the human mind.

Elephants Run From Bees
Elephants are the largest beasts alive on land today. Yet these goliaths are afraid of bees, researchers have discovered. The giants flee when they hear the buzz of a bee swarm.

Plants Communicate to Warn Against Danger
Plants chatter amongst themselves to spread information, a lot like humans and other animals, new research suggests. A unique internal network apparently allows greens to warn each other against predators and potential enemies.
Uh oh, what will vegetarians eat now?

Next-Generation Telescopes Excite Astronomers
New telescopes expected to come online in the next decade could uncover clues about how the first galaxies formed, determine whether Earth-like planets are common around other stars and provide new insight into our solar system’s murky history, scientists say. 

Famous Orion Nebula Closer Than Thought
The widely photographed and heavily studied Orion Nebula is nearly 300 light-years closer to Earth than previously thought, according to a new study.