Last November, the Boise State University student team called Greenspeed broke the land speed record for a truck (in its class) that uses vegetable oil with a run of 155 miles per hour. Now, they're confidently ready to go after the faster, dirtier, petroleum-powered trucks.

What's up with the sales, orders and reservations of the Nissan Leaf? The Japanese automaker loudly trumpeted the 20,000 reservations it originally collected back in September, 2010 and Nissan's Mark Perry recently told AutoblogGreen that, since then, that number has climbed to around 26,000. Where do things stand today? That's not exactly simple to figure out.

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Dust Bowl refugees during the Great Depression, 1937. The Great Crash of 1929 was preceded by a period of rapid enrichment for those at the top. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

The lesson of the Great Crash was that unequal enrichment provokes asset bubbles, excessive demand for debt and, finally, economic failure. Now we are painfully learning that again

Traces from a collision in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector of the Large Hadron Collider. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

We're throwing open our doors on 24 and 25 March to host talks and debates about the frontiers of particle physics, neuroscience and the law, and host masterclasses on podcasting, journalism, web tools and photography

Security firm backtracks on Android malware claims. Photograph: Kena Betancur/Reuters

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