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FOXNews.com - Scientists Say Invisibility Cloak Now Possible - Science News
2008-08-28 02:20:00 From the page: "WASHINGTON â€" Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects. The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science." Read More...
The Trouble with Live Brain Organ Donors
2008-08-16 05:55:00 To get organs, thirty years ago, doctors decided to make the criteria of “Brain death” the new criteria for death. This is because a valid diagnosis of complete brain death means that the person’s body is being kept alive with machines. But with the push to get more and more organs, there is now a push to ...
Tidal power: Clean electricity or ecodisaster?
2008-08-09 09:17:00 With all the worries about burning coal or oil to make electricity, some countries are turning to technology to harvest other sources. Here in the Philippines, the government has announced that it plans to build a tidal power generator near Cebu to help generate electricity for our central islands. From the Manila Bulletin: The Philippines? quest for energy ...
Norwegian study reports link between abortion and depression
2008-08-07 07:36:00 A recent study from Norway finds a link between abortion and subsequent depression. Titled, Abortion and depression: A population-based longitudinal study of young women, the research was conducted by Willy Pedersen and published in the 2008 Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, volume 36, pages 424?428. Here is the abstract: Induced abortion is an experience shared by ...
Child abuse and HIV
2008-08-02 03:00:00 My friends in Zimbabwe inform me that the HIV epidemic has caused many people, even educated ones who claim to be Christians, to resort back to traditional methods of healing. Usually this means herbs or ceremonies, but there are bad apples in every profession, and some who go by the name of healer/witchdoctor (i.e. detector of ...
Linux On Mars
2008-06-06 14:01:00 When NASA needs an operating system for a Mars lander does it go knocking on Bill Gates’ door? The answer is no. The newly arrived on the planet Phoenix Lander is powered by a variation of Linux running on a specially hardened CPU and motherboard produced by IBM. The CPU may not sound very exciting, and ...
Will Vaccination fight global warming from Cows and sheep?
2008-06-06 08:53:00 Here in Luzon, our major contribution to global warming is the rotting vegetation in the flooded rice paddies. Right now, our workers are busy in the fields, flooding and mulching to prepare for planting. It’s an ancient form of organic farming: the water kill the weeds, and you mulch and turn it a couple times, then ...
Teaching kids to die for Gaia
2008-05-30 02:54:00 The state funded ABC (Australia Broadcasting Corporation) needs to check their website, because under their “Planet Slayer” page for kids one can find a game for kids. Big deal. Except, oh my!: Get the dirt on greenhouse without the guilt trips. No ...
More nanotech worries: Buckyball toxicity
2008-05-28 13:43:00 Last week, I noted that certain nanoparticles the same size and shape of toxic forms of asbestos might lead to lung disease. The research was early, but it was a “headsup” to scientists that more research was needed. Today, another nanoparticle, the round “Buckyball” type, also might enter into cells and cause problems. Nanotechnology is building tiny ...
Nazi Doctor given award
2008-05-26 06:08:00 In our “WTF” Item for the Memorial Day weekend, we find this little gem in the UK Telegraph: A German doctor who allegedly sent 900 children to a Nazi death camp has been given a top medical award. Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering, 92, a former SS member, was honoured for ?services ...
NASA Set To Look For Martian Ice Cubes
2008-05-24 20:35:00 I am always amazed by NASA, these guys certainly have the ‘right stuff’. NASA is an organization that exudes class and style. They undertake missions that are hugely complex and also very long term. A great example is the latest journey to Mars. Mars may be our closest planetary neighbor but it is completely different ...
Grandmom?s guide to Ubuntu: Hardy Heron ate my mp3?s
2008-05-11 11:09:00 Well, it’s time to update the Linux. The latest update is Hardy Heron. Computer people like cute names, and each Linux/ubuntu update has an animal name to identify it. Hardy Heron, gutsy Gibbon, etc. The last time I updated my Ubuntu operating sytem, I downloaded a torrent file of the iso (in English, I downloaded a new ...
Shoddy Goods from China: It?s Not Just Heparin
2008-05-02 03:58:00 That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh… I noted that two weeks ago… And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys. But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that ...
Greenpeace vs GM Food: keeping food from the hungry
2008-04-29 05:56:00 Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke. For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry ...
Game Review: Mario Kart Wii
2008-04-28 14:58:00 I like the Nintendo Wii, I really do. It?s a fun system that doesn?t take a whole ton of gamer strategy, thumb agility and appeals to a wider audience than the typical Play Station or X-box gamer. That being said, my mind can?t always get out of the box and understand how you can play ...
German Teen Geek Says We?re All Gonna Die
2008-04-16 18:22:00 Just when you think NASA is finally getting back up on its feet again? Sheesh. Then some Klugscheißer (smart alec) 13-year-old German schoolboy comes along and double-checks their math (always a good idea, I think) and finds out that the Apophis asteroid does not in fact have a 1 in 45,000 chance of whacking our ...
Internet Cable Cutters Caught
2008-04-15 04:34:00 Attention Conspiracy theorists. They caught two of the ships that caused part of that Middle East Cable outage, and it turns out it was not done by the CIA, or Mossad, or Iran, or Alqaeda. Just some careless sailors. There were four cable cuts at the time; this story refers to the FLAG cable between Oman and the ...
Where?s The Rice?
2008-04-14 04:42:00 We just delivered more rice from the “second harvest” to the rice mill for storage and milling later. We don’t worry about a shortage of rice: We grown our own, a gormet organically grown rice for the upscale Manila market. But not everyone is so lucky. Here in the Philippines there is a rice shortage. It came on ...
Oldest Known Audio Recording Discovered
2008-03-31 12:08:00 U.S. audio historians have discovered the oldest-known audio recording, created by a French inventor named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 - 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Up until now, the oldest recorded sound still in existence has been from 1888. This predates it by 28 years. The recording, which ...
Will Bitter Melon research lead to new Diabetes treatment?
2008-03-28 11:43:00 Here in the Philippines, Ampalaya is a common vegetable for our meals, but it also has a long use in Chinese herbal medicine for diabetes. The problem is that nobody knows why it works, or if it works, but nevertheless it is one of the herbs sold over the counter here in the Philippines. The Philippine ...
New Solar Technology To Be Embedded In Scores Of Consumer Products
2008-03-27 21:09:00 An organic type solar energy which will be introduced in consumer products after the Summer is expected to speed up implementation of solar energy in every day products. The photoelectrochemical is applied in dye-sensitized cells and the technology is cheap in its application. Konarka, a Lowell, MS, based company pioneering the technology, plans to use ...
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2008-03-21 00:43:00 Science, Bible agree: Giving is better AP - The Bible counsels misers that it?s better to give than to receive. Science agrees. People who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than folks who didn?t share, according to a rep...
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The Science of News
2008-03-18 05:00:00 by TK Kenyon. "Five hours of cable news coverage contains 71 minutes of politics, 26 minutes of crime, 12 minutes of disasters and 10 minutes of celebrities. Science, technology, health and the environment received just six minutes of coverage...Maybe we need better-looking scientists."
We Don?t Need ?Locate Me,? We Have Twitter!
2008-03-09 07:21:00 You’ve seen the commercials for Boost Mobile where the people with the phones are giant dots and the whole commercial is, “Where you at?” “I know where you at, you know where I’m at?” Yes, they get annoying, but they advertise a service that most of us are familiar with: GPS location. Well, with the ...
Music Has Charms . . . and Power
2008-02-21 07:08:00 “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast; to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” – William Congreve, English dramatist (1670 - 1729) When William Congreve wrote these words into his play, “The Mourning Bride”, he was not making an anatomical reference by his use of the word “breast”. In his time, ...
Nessie, R.I.P.
2008-02-16 15:08:00 Ah yes, that glorious left over Plesiosaur that somehow escaped extinction and although cold blooded and alone, managed to live in the cold Scottish Loch is probably dead. Yes, the Loch Ness monster is no more, a victim of global warming. At least that’s what Nessie Hunter Robert Rines told the UKDaily Record: Despite having hundreds of sonar ...
Second Chance
2008-02-14 14:51:00 Becoming the only astronaut ever in the 27 years of space shuttle history to be given a second chance to go on a spacewalk after being replaced for his first, now-veteran German spacewalker Hans Schlegel proudly confirms that ?It?s great to be part of an international team.? He and fellow spacewalker American Rex J. Walheim successfully ...
German Astronaut Refuses to Leave Northern Section of Space Shuttle
2008-02-11 16:18:00 Leaving the dangerous spacewalk and assembly work needed on the latest ISS mission to his American comrades, German astronaut Hans Schlegel has refused to leave the relatively safe northern sections of the space shuttle for the more dangerous southern regions of outer space. Although actually over the weather, the German astronaut suddenly claimed yesterday that he was ...
That cut internet cable is being fixed; Iran internet quickly rerouted in t
2008-02-09 06:59:00 FLAG telecom, the internet company who owns the cables off the coast of Egypt that were cut last week, is busy repairing them with two ships at the site. The cause of one of the cut cables has been found, and is reported by CNN to have been an abandoned six ton ship’s anchor. An the ...
Scientists who protested Pope?s speech relied on false information
2008-02-09 04:14:00 Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman relates a time when he was part of the panel judging which textbooks should be used in a California school system. This meant he had to spend a lot of time and energy reading every proposed textbook, and deciding which one should be used. One in a series of three books ...
Conspiracy theories about Iran abound as 4th internet cable is cut
2008-02-05 01:37:00 Call the FBI….Call Homeland security… Call the X Files….call ArtBell… A fourth cable has been cut, this time off the coast of the UAE, disrupting communications in Qatar. Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said on Sunday a cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das on Friday, the fourth reported in the ...
Elektrosmog Keeping Everybody up at Night
2008-01-23 14:57:00 A well-known cause of stress, headaches, back pain, constipation, roughly 137 forms of cancer, heart, liver, kidney, foot and mouth disease, social unrest, inexplicably violent stock market fluctuations, earthquakes and global warming, at least among Germans, Elektrosmog from cell phones has now begun robbing them of their sleep, as well. Or of the little sleep they ...
When in doubt, shoot
2008-01-23 03:18:00 Way back in my early medical career, between my two stints in Africa, I worked in a small New England town where a young girl was brought into our office with a bat bite. It seems that she opened the back door to the barn, and a bat fell down, then promptly flew up and bit ...
THIS JUST IN: Japanese Kill Off Humpback Hunt
2008-01-19 08:06:00 In recent news, the Japanese government has agreed NOT to follow through on their controversial plans to hunt humpback whales during this year’s annual Antarctic whaling expedition. Every year the Japanese whaling fleet sales to the offshore oceans of Antarctica to kill an intended 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales - a goal always striking ...
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
2008-01-11 00:00:00 Key bird flu infection factor found ... Long-term anxiety boosts heart risk ... Meningitis vaccine works on infants ... Oldest cosmic explosion detected ... Health/Science news from UPI.
Need For Greed
2007-12-27 14:07:00 Unable to otherwise explain why it is that German men are so tight in their spending and anxious about their economic futures even while the German economy continues to boom on without a hitch, scientists have discovered that these men cannot really help themselves because evolution wants it that way. These were German scientists doing ...
Bird flu Deaths in Pakistan?tick tick tick tick
2007-12-20 03:53:00 Don’t look now, but there are a couple more cases of human to human bird flu transmission…this time in Pakistan. There have been several hundred cases of people who developed Bird Flu, and an estimated 200 of them have died (60% mortality). But most of the victims had contact with sick birds or bird feces. Human to ...
The Gore and Gabriel Show in Bali
2007-12-14 15:09:00 Not satisfied with personally blaming the United States for being “principally responsible? for blocking the non-going progress in battling climate change at the UN climate conference in Bali, ex-United States Vice President and current Savior of the Climatized World Al Gore HIMSELF has called upon Germany?s Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel (HE also likes to refer to ...
Yup. A cuppa coffee to keep me smart
2007-12-13 12:36:00 It’s now official. Older women who drink three cups of coffee a day were found to have less mental deterioration over 4 years time than women who drank one cup or less. This does not necessarily mean that coffee (which is known to have anti oxidant properties) might be one way to slow down Alzherimers disease, but ...
Dramatic Proportions in Germany
2007-12-12 16:06:00 It appears as if Germany has been victimized yet again. Only this time it?s the climate. That everything is falling apart and sinking into chaos and ushering in the apocalypse has always been a well-established fact in this country, of course. But that the current levels of devastation and mayhem and downright discomfort have reached ...
German Scientists Discover Extinct Scorpion Bigger Than The Other Extinct S
2007-11-23 18:29:00 The German science and rock music worlds were sent reeling earlier this week when scientists discovered the fossilized claw of what appeared to be a sea scorpion bigger and even older than the fossilized Scorpions? front man singer Klaus Meine himself. ?Holy Scheiße,? said paleontologist Markus Poschmann after having excavated the claw from an excavation of ...
Herding cockroaches
2007-11-20 02:21:00 An important breakthrough in the science world has shown that if you place a robot cockroach into an area with a bunch of normal cockroaches, the robot can influence the other roaches to move and hide. Even when in the minority, robots can modulate the collective decision-making process and produce a global pattern not observed in ...
Spock 42; Ecuador 1
2007-11-16 17:37:00 I have a son who runs a restaurant in Southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, so when I saw a headline about an earthquake of 6.4 near the border, I googled. No luck. Most of the articles mentioned the earthquake in Northern Chile, and an earthquake in Ecuador south of Quito, near the Peruvian border. Finally, ...
Astronauts ready for dangerous spacewalk to repair solar antenna
2007-11-03 13:02:00 Two astronauts on the shuttle Discovery prepared for a daring spacewalk on Saturday to repair a torn solar wing deemed vital for the future of the International Space Station. The US space agency said fixing the ripped solar array has become the top priority for the Discovery mission because without it there is a risk ...
Lava provides window on early Earth
2007-11-03 13:01:00 [b]Researchers at Harvard and the University of Hawaii believe they?ve resolved a long-standing controversy over the roots of islands ? volcanoes in the middle of tectonic plates ? showing that the islands? lava provides a window into the early Earth?s makeup.[/b] Assistant Professor of Geochemistry Sujoy Mukhopadhyay and Helge Gonnermann at the University of Hawaii ...
Scientists rotate electron spin with electric field
2007-11-02 10:20:00 [b]Researchers at the Delft University of Technology?s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have succeeded in controlling the spin of a single electron merely by using electric fields. This clears the way for a much simpler realization of the building blocks of a (future) super-fast quantum computer.[/b] The ... |
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