Robotic parts aren’t good enough and… “The general cited animals like salamanders that can regrow lost tails or limbs. ‘Why can’t a mammal do the same thing?’ he asked.” Good point. I’m all for having my stem cell cloned leg back after it got blown away instead of having a cheap piece of plastic or Read more about The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts[…]
This day’s launch is a test to check out design and handling inside the atmosphere as the craft maneuvered through a pre-planned course in the sky. Although the flight didn’t go into space, the builders of the vehicle hoped to learn a lot about how the on-board computers, software and avionics, work together. Official URL Read more about Lockheed Martin Tests New Spacecraft Prototype[…]
Official Darkwin Site
Concerns have been raised that performing collisions at previously unexplored energies might unleash new and disastrous phenomena. These include the production of micro black holes, and strangelets. Such issues were raised in connection with the RHIC accelerator, both in the media[14][15] and in the scientific community;[16] however, after detailed studies, scientists reached such conclusions as Read more about Might the new CERN Large Hadron Collider make the world evaporate into a black hole?[…]
ou may remember hearing about China’s plans to control the weather during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing by attacking shady clouds with artillery and aircraft. Along similar lines, scientists in New Mexico decided to mess with thunderclouds, but with fancy lasers. The researchers harassed two passing storms from their evil fortress (or observatory) with Read more about Scientists shoot thundercloud with laser, cloud goes nuts[…]
Nice funny way of describing the new computing technologies scientists are concentrating on 1. Optical computing 2. Quantum computing 3. DNA computing 4. Reversible computing 5. Billiard Ball computing 6. Neuronal computing … Official URL Link
EARTHWORMS WERE pushed into the firing line last week after a resumption of the testing of depleted uranium shells at Dundrennan. Significant levels of radioactive uranium isotopes were found in the flesh of worms at the Ministry of Defence’s Dumfries weapons range last year. Despite concerns from environmentalists and the international community, the MoD last Read more about Depleted uranium turns earthworms into glowworms[…]
We made a very significant announcement last week, of a collaboration with one of the most (if not the most) security sensitive institutions on earth, the United States government’s National Security Agency. They’ve joined the burgeoning OpenSolaris community, to collaborate with Sun and other community members on the future of ultra-secure operating systems. Official Jonathan Read more about NSA moves to OpenSolaris…. hmmm whats gonna happen 2 linux?[…]
In Cern, Zwitserland, zijn ze goed bezig. Ooit werd daar de basis gelegd voor het WWW, HTML, XML en meer protocollen voor ons huidige internet. Nieuw -en direct klaar voor verfilming- is: The Grid. The Grid? Een initiatief van Cern(waar ook het W3C.org huist) met onder andere professor Tony Doyle die het project technisch leidt. Read more about W3C’s ‘The Grid’ is 10.000x sneller dan het huidige internet[…]
Did it take you more than 20 minutes to finish Mario Galaxy? Was it difficult getting through Halo 3’s first level? Relax, the Japanese company Cyber Gadget has the pill for you, the “Game Suppli” vitamin suppliment! If you require endurance for long gaming periods try Blueberry, for extreme concentration drop a DHA. I almost Read more about Viagra for Gamers: Boost Your Prowess with Vitamin Supplements![…]
Spinal injuries that leave people paralyzed are currently incurable, one of the most feared and rehabilitating things that can happen to you. But researchers at Northwestern University are looking to change that for good, as they’re hard at work on a new nanotechnology that could enable us to completely heal cut and severed spinal cords, Read more about A nanotech gel to heal spinal injuries under development[…]
Basically it’s having a look at which areas of the brain activate when you make a purchase. Once you know that, you can rig people up to brain scanners, show them different ads and see if the areas light up. If they light up – hey presto: good ad! And then fine tune it. Is Read more about Neuromarketing[…]
The Boston Retinal Implant Project recently developed a bionic eye implant that will restore vision to those affected by degenerative blindness. The device works by being implanted into the back of the eyeball and working as a light transmitter to the brain, where the two are connected by a nerve/wire thinner than a human hair. Read more about Bionic Eye Prototype[…]
spoiler: it’s the hydrogen peroxide
Just like some people can fix computers just by being near them, there are also people – SLIders – who can destroy them just by being near them. SLI stands for Street Light Interference, as they tend to turn off street lights as they pass by. I first found out in the followin article, an Read more about SLIders[…]
They allready give them speed, but now Viagra? The active ingredient in the drugs was found to make climbers perform better in an environment with less oxygen, which causes fatigue and dizziness.
These guys are a bit like train spotters. Except they spot satellites. And calculate their trajectory. And find out what they are. And there is no such thing as a spy train.
What a great idea! Anyway, it looks viable to me – so we’re going to have to mix our solar panels with these, as well as put them on the floors of our showers
Lectures and course materials from all over the world which have been put online are findeable through the World Lecture Hall.
The International Meteor Organization has a calendar with the meteor showers we can expect this year. It has pictures of where to look as well as data on how many to expect and on what they base these predictions.
Indian scientists have quite accidentally stumbled upon a way to store light for longer periods of time. So far this could only be done for a few nano-seconds. This potentially allows us to create light based switching systems.
And not only are humans evolving quickly, we’re also evolving differently on different continents.
This scanner takes a whole load of x-ray images of the whole body in a very small time using a rotating ring. This makes the images 3D so they can be rotated and viewed on computers. It can capture bone structures as well as organs.
Scientists have managed to create stem cells without extracting them from embryos using a simple lab technique.
Google has teamed up with the X-Prize foundation to offer incentives to get onto the moon: • GRAND PRIZE: A $20 million Grand Prize will be awarded to the team that can soft land a craft on the Moon that roams for at least 500 meters and transmits a Mooncast back to Earth. The Grand Read more about Google Lunar X-Prize[…]