Silent roads, wireless charging and occultist rocket scientists

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S C I E N C E Shredded tyre remnants used to reduce traffic noise An environmental engineering professor is working on techniques to use ground up old car tyres to improve the surface of ageing roads while reducing both traffic noise and landfill » S C I E N C E Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of Nasa's history Jack Parsons was a founding member of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab, with some calling him one of the 'fathers of rocketry', but you won't find much about him on Nasa's websites » S C I E N C E Researchers charge 40 smartphones wirelessly from 5m Engineers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a system that can power devices up to five metres away » P O L I T I C S Government offers school pupil data to private companies Data relating to every school pupil in England is now available for access by private companies thanks to a change in legislation implemented last year » T E C H N O L O G Y World's fastest lift will travel 95 floors in 43 seconds Hitachi's new ultra-high-speed lift will travel 440 metres between the first and the 95th floor of the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre in China in a mere 43 seconds » B U S I N E S S Netflix hikes subscription price to £7 per month Streaming-service Netflix has today announced that it will raise subscription prices, first for new customers and later for all subscribers » T E C H N O L O G Y Presence Orb uses Wi-Fi to detect if buses and bars are full By listening to the signal your phone broadcasts as it searches for Wi-Fi networks, Presence Orb wants to provide an anonymised data stream showing where everyone is in real-time » C U L T U R E Kick-Ass creator's next comic races to big screen A movie adaptation of Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar's next comic has been optioned – months before the first issue is even released. » Promotion CISCO Find out what happens when the Connected Self meets the Internet of Everything Click here T E C H N O L O G Y Galaxy S5 vs Xperia Z2 vs One M8 review: comparison Comparing Samsung's Galaxy S5, Sony's Xperia Z2 and HTC's One M8 - which is best? Listen » S C I E N C E Stuffed animals put in 'rhino-sized' freezer to kill bugs Insect pests aren't just a problem for living animals: they pose an existential risk to the 61 million dead creatures in the collection of London's Natural History Museum Listen » P O D C A S T Occult scientists, Brazil's internet win, rubber roads: Wired.co.uk Podcast 171 Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days Listen »

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