12/03/2006
Red Meat and Breast Cancer!!!
The Harvard Medical school has released findings in the Archives of Internal Medicine that indicate eating red meat dramatically increases the risk of aquiring breast cancer.
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11/30/2006
11/22/2006
American Dental Association sends email warning about fluoride.
Once again the truth about fluoride is back in the news. On November 9th the American Dental Association sent out an email to its members warning them about fluoride.
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11/16/2006
UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR brought to you by DARPA
Integrated Wave Technologies along with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have introduced a hand-held 'Universal Translator' that converts simple english speech into arabic or 15 other languages.!!!
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11/08/2006
NASA observing the sun in 3D
NASA has launched two space probes that form the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Mission whose goal is to study the sun in 3 dimensions!!!
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10/12/2006
3,145 miles on one gallon of gasoline!!! ???
Engineering students from The University of British Columbia have created a car that is capable of travelling 3,145 miles on one gallon of gasoline!!!
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9/08/2006
Earth-like Worlds Common?
University of Colorado Researchers have reported they believe that earth-like planets may be more abundant than previously thought. !!!
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8/18/2006
New Israeli Computerized Airport Interrogator
An Israeli Company, Suspect Detection Systems Ltd, has devised a new biometric screening technology that has been tested by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. It combines artificial-intellegence, algorithms and polygraph / lie detector concepts into one computerized interrogator!!!
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8/11/2006
HP develops tiny wireless memory chip
Compter giant Hewlwtt-Packard has developed a wireless computer chip the size of a grain of rice. Developed by the Memory Spot research team at HP, the chip is 2-4mm square. Current versions can hold up to 512 kilobytes of data, store 100 pages of text and are capable of swapping data using wireless transmission!!!
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7/28/2006
Amazon.com Founder plans to build spaceport in Texas.
The Founder and CEO of Amazon.com has created a new Company called Blue Origin. Blue Origin has applied to build a launch site for its planned New Shepard space rocket about 25 miles north of Van Horn, Texas.!!!
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7/21/2006
Tesla Motor's Tesla Roadster 100% Electric Sportscar
Tesla motors has developed the next generation of electric car, the Tesla Roadster. This 100% electric vehicle is capable of going from 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds and has a top speed of over 130 MPH with a range of 250 miles!!!
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7/14/2006
Bigelow Sucessfully Expands 1/3 Scale Inflatable Space Hotel Module
Bigelow Aerospace, a major contender in the commercial space industry, has successfully launched and expanded their 1/3 scale inflatable space habitat. Also - Send a picture or object to space and more!!!
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7/07/2006
US Navy Railguns
The United States Navy is funding two contracts to the tune of 14.7 million dollars to develop an Electromagnetic railgun for use on navy vessels.
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Plastics from sugar and Global Warming
University of Wisconsin scientists discover way to create plastics from fructose.
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Al gore's gripping film entitled, An Inconvenient truth, which details the current state of global warming on planet earth, has received rave reviews from viewers and scientists alike. Climatologists have praised the film for its scientific accuracy.
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6/23/2006
Surviving a Robot Rebellion
Daniel H. Wilson, from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, has written a book entitled "How To Survive a Robot Uprising - Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion."
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6/15/2006
Robots with a sense of touch!
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have created an artificial touch sensor as sensitive as a human fingertip.
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5/26/2006
Masten Space offers $99 spots on its flights
For $99 anyone can send a payload into space through this newly emerging suborbital space launch service. Masten Space Systems’ new “CanSats To Space” payload program will carry 350 gram, “soda can” sized payloads into space and back.
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5/20/2006
Military Robotics in Nigeria and India
Prime Minister of India anounces production of cutting edge technology weapons. Nigeria ordering robotic patrol vehicles to defend coastline.
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5/12/2006
Two mathematicians propose cloaking device concept
Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton claim that placing certain objects close to a superlens could render them invisible.
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4/18/2006
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
University of Southern California team develops the next generation of super-thin, flexible lighting.
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4/09/2006
Successful Transplant of Grown Organs!
Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine successfully transplant bladders into seven people. The Bladders were grown from each of the patients' tissue.
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3/31/2006
Ist Brazilian astronaut & new crew head for ISS
Russion craft heads for station with 2 new ISS crewmembers and the first ever Brazilian astronaut. Also - X-37 / White Knight drop test.
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3/23/2006
UTD's NanoTech Institute creates powerful artificial muscles
Nanotechnologists from the University of Texas, Dallas have created artificial muscles 100 times more powerful than natural muscles that may lead to advances such as morphing aircraft, exoskeletons with super-human strength and more.
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Things That Are in Danger of Vanishing
A ban of selling many of the electric appliances that were produced and sold before 2001 will start on the 1st of April, 2006 in Japan. Because of the Electric Appliance & Materials Law.
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3/10/2006
Mental Typewriter -- Brain-Computer Interface
Researchers from Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin and the medical school of Berlin Humboldt University have devised a new computer interface. Controlled by your thoughts, this device, the Berlin Brain-computer Interface, is being called a mental typewriter.
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3/03/2006
Japanese find uses for cow dung.
Researchers from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have devised a method of extracting gasoline from cattle dung. Another extracts a fragrance.
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2/23/2006
Spaceports planned around the globe.
Space Tourism Company, Space Adventures, is planning a spaceport in UAE and Singapore.
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2/18/2006
2/09/2006
XPOD plays songs based on emotions & actions.
Univ. of Maryland researchers are working on a XPOD device concept that calculates a user's emotions and activity and constructs an applicable playlist.
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2/02/2006
End of the Internet?
Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency...
Telephone and cable giants envision a potential lucrative "triple play," as they impose near-monopoly control over the residential broadband services that send video, voice and data communications flowing into our televisions, home computers, cell phones and iPods.
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Telephone and cable giants envision a potential lucrative "triple play," as they impose near-monopoly control over the residential broadband services that send video, voice and data communications flowing into our televisions, home computers, cell phones and iPods.
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Red & Processed Meat Cancer Link
UK's MRC Dunn Human Nutritian Unit and Open University has discovered a link between red meat consumption and cancer. Also University of Hawaii discovers processed meats dramatically increase pancreatic cancer risk..
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1/29/2006
PassThought Technology
Canadian scientists developing Pass-Thought biometric systems.
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