In November a pair of German computer science students made a critical first step toward cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard, or WPA, once heralded as the solution to WEP's insecurity.

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Three engineering students developed a pair of "anti-rape" undies that fend off would-be attackers with an electric shock, and in a discovery that could be a game-changer for environmentally conscious parents, scientists have figured out a way to make super-absorbent diapers from carbon dioxide.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face

He and Seann William Scott star as a pair of dead-end marketers shilling an energy drink to high-school students.

NEWYORKER: Role Models

It carried a total of six picosatellites: the Aerospace pair plus four others, three of which were built by students at Santa Clara University and one by amateur radio enthusiasts.

ECONOMIST: Picosatellites

In a pair of papers to be published soon in Analytical Chemistry, Dr Porter describes how he and his graduate students ran a slender glass stick larded with magnetic nanoparticles through a GMR reader.

ECONOMIST: Labs on a chip