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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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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International scientists discover new genus of African monkey

Team discovers first new genus in 83 years in Tanzania.
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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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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

University of Southern California team develops the next generation of super-thin, flexible lighting.
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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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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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Spaceports planned around the globe.

Space Tourism Company, Space Adventures, is planning a spaceport in UAE and Singapore.
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Space Elevator 1 mile high trial

LiftPort Group has success with their 1 mile high space elevator trial.
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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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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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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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New LEGO Robotics Kit

Lego to release Mindstorms NXT Robotics kit fall 2006.
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DS4G Ion Engine Breakthrough

ESA & ANU create new generation ion engine.
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