I have always wondered about marketing schemes and whether periwinkle vs. robin's egg blue really will make a difference to my purchasing decisions. I'm not alone when it comes to these musings as Waginegen...
Serious number crunching to be a co-CERN project !Grid computing is changing science the world over."CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the...
If you steal from the navy, can you call it "piracy"? Even if it's on dry land? This is not a rhetorical question, since a sysadmin for the US Naval Research Laboratory has just pled guilty to ripping off nearly...
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It's an "inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell". Advances in solar are going the way of computer processor speed and storage and many other information technologies; increasing power, speed and efficiency, decreasing cost, space, waste.Solar Power to Rule in 20...
One often hears the expression 'I smell a rat' but in Columbia rats are being trained to use their sense of smell to sniff out land mines. If that's not amazing enough they also have a cat acting as their...
Wired DANGER ROOM reports on Navy testing regarding cold fusion; experiment results have not been released or published in a peer-reviewed journal, despite reports they were successful; are they being kept secret for...
A widow of an anthrax victim is now saying that it's time for the government to settle her lawsuit and pay her what she wants.Other victims said today that they are satisfied with the investigation's outcome that blamed the whole affair on scientist Bruce Ivins.""This...
Bruce Ivins, the researcher who committed suicide, is implicated in the 2001 anthrax attacks New Jersey. Following a breifing for family members of the victims, the info was made public by the FBI."The Justice Department released hundreds of pages of documents related to the...
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Plutonium is the most dangereous form of nuclear material,milligrams can contaminate 100 to 1000 persons. In case itreaches somehow the Ozone layer, it is extremley dangerous.The LAB...
Update: A so-far-anonymous scientist has told the AP that the DNA of anthrax found on the bodies of five people killed in the anthrax mailings led directly to the strains managed by Ivins in his laboratory.Original...
Part 1 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural Historys 2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel was...
Part 3 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History’s 2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel...
Part 2 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History’s 2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel...
"A study revealed that an illegal drug psilocybin has long-term positive effects on an individual's well-being. Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic substance derived from certain types of mushrooms and is considered illegal, claimed to have a high potential for abuse in the...