Yup, by forcing people to not smoke where people who don’t smoke don’t generally go anyway, the incidence of drunk driving fatalities has increased. Another new way to kill more people invented!
Apparently, if you want to communicate over the galaxy, you need to use neutrinos instead of photons as neutrinos are much more noise free. We will hopefully have detectors for neutrino traffic next year some time.
Slashdot | Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter
In the first time since 1992, ESA is looking for future astronauts. The requirements are stringent, but this is the job of a lifetime!
To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart. The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker. They were able to reprogram it to Read more about A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks[…]
Don’t call it a flying car. It’s a “roadable aircraft.” It’s named the Transition, and the first full-scale model is taking shape inside a former machine shop on an industrial back alley in Woburn, MA. Between now and late July, the 10 employees of angel-funded startup Terrafugia will be spending “a lot of long days, Read more about From the Runway to the Road: Terrafugia Redefines the Flying Car—Make that Drivable Airplane[…]
In a study just published by Britain’s Which? Computing magazine, alarming levels of dangerous bacteria and other gross-out biological matter was found on many computer keyboards. A microbiologist examined and measured bacteria levels on 33 keyboards in an office, and one was found to be five times dirtier than the office toilet seat, carrying 150 Read more about Eeeeew! Study shows some computer keyboards are far dirtier than a toilet seat.[…]
This is a one horsepower vehicle. Literally. Get it?! It has a horse inside powering it, meaning it is literally powered by one horse! One horsepower! Do you get it? Hold on, let me explain more clearly for you. It’s called the Naturmobil, and it was built by Abdolhadi Mirhejazi of Dubai. Yes, it has Read more about The one-horsepower vehicle with an actual horse inside[…]
Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already %u2018occupied%u2019. Insects use plant like a telephone
Wedging yourself into an economy-class airplane seat is one of the atrocities of our age, but there’s help on the way. The Cozy Suite is a revolution in airline seating, giving you more room to yourself while giving the airlines the opportunity to pack even more sardines into their pressurized tin cans. Sure, it’s not Read more about Delta to install revolutionary Cozy Suite seats in economy class, tourists rejoice[…]
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[…]
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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[…]