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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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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Sandia Labs Creates 2 Billion Degrees+ Plasma

Sandia uses the Z Machine to create plasma hotter than the interior of stars.
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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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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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