BBC NEWS | Health | Hysterectomies a stem cell source. Discarded fallopian tubes from hysterectomies could be a good source of donor stem cells, say researchers.
DailyTech – Researchers Develop Color Changing Microspheres. A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has been able to fabricate microscopic polymer beads that can change colors instantly with the application of an external magnetic field. The most interesting aspect of the color changing properties of the polymer beads is that the color [...]
DailyTech – MIT Patterns New Super-Antenna After Human Ear. New antenna is ultra wide-band while using 1/100th of the power of a standard antenna
DailyTech – Spaceport America Under Construction in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic is expected to begin launching tourists into space from the spaceport in 2010, as more than 45,000 people have registered to take a trip from New Mexico. The Spaceport America web site each person will have to pay $200,000 per trip to go up [...]
DailyTech – New Memory Can Store Data Safely for 1,000 Years. Japanese researchers have come up with a new form of ultra-long term memory that they say can last over 1,000 years. They dub their memory the Digital Rosetta Stone, or DRS memory for short. The system consists of a stack of four 15-inch wafers, [...]
DailyTech – China Blocks Google Access; Confusion Over Internet Filter Remains High. Google has been accused of spreading pornography — breaking strict Chinese law — and now both the Google.com and its Chinese language counterpart have been unavailable. Furthermore, Gmail and several other Google-based services also were disabled since Wednesday afternoon China time.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ocean monster shows hidden depths. For a while during its design, Asahiko Taira told me, the ship became known as “Godzilla-maru”, so unusual and top-heavy were its projected lines. “We started planning the Chikyu about 15 years ago, and there were some people who thought we were too [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Periodic table gets a new element. The ubiquitous periodic table will soon have a new addition – the “super-heavy” element 112.
Girl Who Does Not Age, Brooke Greenberg Baffles Doctors – ABC News. At about 16 pounds and 30 inches, 16-year-old Brooke Greenberg has not aged significantly, physically or apparently cognitively, since she was a toddler.
Decided to share a beta of the upcoming new version of tpic uploader. If you are using the older 1.x version, do this: * Run 1.x, disable context-menu, then uninstal it. Now you can proceed to install 2.0 beta. Warning: context-menu for 2.0 beta works only in 32-bit windows. New stuff: – Imageshack direct link [...]
TechConnect Magazine – PhotoFast to release 2TB 3.5-inch solid state drives. Japan-based PhotoFast has now announced a new solid state drive family, the G-Monster 3.5 RAID5 WorkStation Edition. According to its maker, the new line-up includes 3.5-inch drives with capacities of 64, 128, 256, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB that feature a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, [...]
DailyTech – Scientists: Earth Could be on Collision Course with Neighboring Planets in Distant Future. Research being conducted by French scientists indicates eventual destabilization of Mercury could cause a major impact between Earth and Mars. The research was carried out by two French scientists who reportedly used “arcane mathematical” models to help predict the next [...]
DailyTech – NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based [...]
