Thursday, September 10, 2009

Nasa Scientists Levitate Mice With Magnet

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Scientists have previously managed to levitate frogs and grasshoppers From The Telegraph: Nasa-backed scientists have successfully levitated...

Apple Launches iPod Nano With Video Camera And iTunes9 As Steve Jobs Makes Surprise Appearance

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The new iPod nano with video camera comes in nine different colours and is as slim as the old model From The Daily Mail: Steve Jobs made a s...

New Malaria 'Poses Human Threat'

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From The BBC: An emerging new form of malaria poses a deadly threat to humans, research has shown. It had been thought the parasite Plasmodi...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert

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Judy Wall, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Missouri, is working with bacteria that convert toxic radioactive metal to inert...

Infection Could Hasten Alzheimer's Memory Loss

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From Live Science: Catching a cold or any other infection could cause more memory loss in people with Alzheimer's disease, a new study s...

Robot To Be Controlled By Human Brain Cells

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Artist's impression of the surge of electrical activity from certain brain cells that causes an epileptic seizure (Image: DAVID MACK / S...

Panel Urges NASA to Reset Priorities

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Astronaut Nicole Stott works on the International Space Station last week. Reuters From The Wall Street Journal: A blue-ribbon panel is reco...

Steve Jobs Is Back On The Job

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China Plans World's Largest Solar Power Plant

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First Solar: Here the company installs a 2 megawatt solar plant in California. Up next, one that's one thousand times the wattage, in Ch...

Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track

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Platon photographed Buzz Aldrin for PM in Los Angeles, May 2009. “It’s mankind’s destiny to walk on another planet,” Aldrin says. “We can ac...

After Repairs, New Space Images From Hubble

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The Hubble's new Wide Field Camera 3 peered into one of the more crowded places in the universe in this view of a small region inside th...

How Air Pollution Can Damage The Heart

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Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME From Time Magazine: Sitting in traffic can certainly be infuriating enough to raise your blood pressure. But ...

ADHD Sufferers Have Lower Brain Chemicals

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From The Telegraph: People with attention deficit disorder have lower levels of a chemicals in the brain needed to experience the sensations...

Darpa Seeks To Tap Water’s Power Potential

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From The Danger Room: The quest for limitless energy has preoccupied military researchers for years, and Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out scien...

'NanoPen' May Write New Chapter In Nanotechnology Manufacturing

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These highly-magnified images are composed of tiny nanoparticles produced by a "NanoPen." From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 8...

Houseplants Make Air Healthier

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Houseplants were placed into experimental chambers in a greenhouse equipped with a charcoal filtration air supply system to measure ozone de...

Ancient 'Smell Of Death' Revealed

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Dying stinks, even for woodlice From The BBC: When animals die, their corpses exude a particular "stench of death" which repels th...

The Real Sea Monsters: On the Hunt for Rogue Waves

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BIG, BAD WAVE: A monster rogue wave approaches a merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by the coasts of ...

Big Artistic Performance To Be Set In Space

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From Space.com: The first ever widely acknowledged artistic performance from space will be broadcast from the International Space Station on...

A Skull That Rewrites The History Of Man

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One of the skulls discovered in Georgia, which are believed to date back 1.8 million years From The Independent: It has long been agreed tha...