Home
All|
Business |
Technology |
Environment |
Health & Fitness |
Lifestyle |
Entertainment |
Travel |
Politics & Society |
Sports |
RSS
Cyborgs are moving out of science-fiction and into the real world. With an increasing number of first world citizens suddenly turning up missing limbs, due to some mysterious and definitely non-oil-related reason, and advances in man-machine interface...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
4
Star It 
(0)
AP, Johannesburg
Researchers trying to create the world’s first malaria vaccine are launching a massive medical trial as early as next month involving 16,000 children that could...
made popular Nov 10 2008
AP, Santa Monica
An animal rights activist who as a child was the voice of “Lucy” in several “Peanuts” television specials has been convicted of contempt of...
made popular Nov 7 2008
Times come when liberal minds need vision. Creativity flows, but ideas don’t reflect it. In the modern day, where maneuvers in the electronic world are targeted...
made popular Oct 29 2008
Glycerin, a common biodiesel waste product, has become so abundant amid the rise in biofuel use that producers often have to pay to dispose of the chemical. Researchers...
made popular Oct 21 2008
Researchers have discovered a mechanism for the rapid growth seen in infantile hemangioma, the most common childhood tumor.
made popular Oct 20 2008
Everything is supposed to be green these days. Your car, your home, your overall lifestyle. Sorry to say that I really can’t offer any advice on where to find energy...
made popular Oct 13 2008
IN ECONOMIC theory the winner’s curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to...
made popular Oct 10 2008
Crystallized carbon has caused all kinds of trouble throughout human history, with the shiny rocks causing (and continuing to cause) bloodshed and strife by their high...
made popular Oct 9 2008
There may be no such thing as a ’safe’ tan based on ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a series of papers published in the October issue of Pigment...
made popular Sep 20 2008
MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given...
made popular Sep 20 2008
AP, Washington
Aspirin is among the most popular remedies used by people. Turns out some plants like it, too. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were...
made popular Sep 18 2008
Risking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them.
made popular Sep 17 2008
North Carolina State University has just been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy...
made popular Sep 11 2008
Computer researchers built a tool that demonstrates how hackers could silently turn Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout...
made popular Sep 7 2008
A new analysis done by researchers from the University of Michigan has determined that captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered Asian vulture, whose numbers...
made popular Sep 7 2008
Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will...
made popular Aug 21 2008
AP, Yakima
Researchers at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site last year injected 5,000 gallons of molasses into the soil to try to clean up toxic groundwater near...
made popular Aug 21 2008
As science races to confront terrorism with new technology, researchers are unveiling a new generation of devices featuring ever-more sophisticated sensors to quickly...
made popular Aug 20 2008
Who can forget the historical sci-fi moment when the Dr Emmet Brown of “Back to the Future” fame shoved some garbage into his time car to make it run?
made popular Aug 6 2008
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
We believe multi-cellular organization is where it\’s at, with our mesoderms and our Mercedes, but there are some super-powered single cells which are far more...
made popular Jul 6 2008
Related Tags
Australia cancer Cyborgs Health & Fitness organisms researchers Technology United States 