The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (7/12)

Skyscrapers As Unbreakable as ... Glass?

With new technology, builders are imagining structures made entirely of glass. A project lets visitors see all angles from the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower in Chicago. Builders are experimenting with new materials and methods to expand the use of glass in construction.

IPhone Apps to Organize Your Life

Do you sometimes feel yourself slipping into an organizational abyss? Do you get behind in your e-mail, overlook a few appointments, forget your mom’s birthday and neglect to pick up milk on the way home?

Dinosaur discovery provides climate change clues

The find, to be published this month in Cretaceous Research, suggests that burrowing behaviors were shared by dinosaurs of different species, in different hemispheres, and spanned millions of years during the Cretaceous Period, when some dinosaurs lived in polar environments. "This research helps us to better understand long-term geologic change, and how organisms may have adapted as the Earth has undergone periods of global cooling and warming," says Martin, a senior lecturer in environmental studies at Emory.

Israel Creates "Internet Warfare" Squad

The Israeli Foreign Ministry unveiled a new plan to pay "talkbackers" -“Internet warfare” squad-to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. The plan calls for the hire of young people who speak at least one language and who study communication, political science, or law – or alternately, Israelis with military experience gained at units dealing with information analysis.