Researchers at Michigan's Van Andel Institute say they have discovered a protein called DIP that could potentially help stop the spread of cancer. Read more......
U.S. President George Walker Bush said Saturday that he had a ''subtle deja vu dream'' of Russian President Vladimir Putin emerging in front of an UFO. ...
A British research team led by the world's leading heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. If animal trials scheduled...
From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on...
A mere three years after Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne skimmed the edge of space to capture the $10-million Ansari X Prize, more than half a dozen companies are...
... 13 dead following Solomons tsunami Story Highlights . 13 dead, several people missing, Solomon Islands government says . Tsunami warning issued for other...
The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should be "very active," with 17 named storms, a top storm forecaster said Tuesday. Those named storms are expected to...
Is anyone watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel? You can really see what is going on at the poles. Brian E Mathieson <brian_earthwatcher@...>...
Hi Pat! I just posted a recommendation for everyone to watch Planet Earth. It really puts into perspective what will be lost in the next few decades. It is so...
The ashes of James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, have been loaded into a rocket that is...
one of his immortal phrases .. ye canna change the laws o physics ... ... translated into the queens english .. they will not alter the redundancy within the...
ALARMING DECLINE OF SHARKS CAUSING OTHER SPECIES TO VANISH By Andrea Thompson LiveScience March 29, 2007 The precipitous decline in large predator sharks in...
Climate change is already having major impacts on the natural world, a UN report is set to announce. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
New research by Iowa State University psychologists provides more concrete evidence of the adverse effects of violent video game exposure on the behavior of...
Will you lose weight and keep it off if you diet? No, probably not, UCLA researchers report in the April issue of American Psychologist, the journal of the...
Almost one year ago on April 24, 2006 the Paradigm Clock, which tracks proximity to a formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human...
The world's first commercially-available rocket pack is now on the market - for £130,000. Read more... http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2270686.html...
An autonomous robotic flea has been developed that is capable of jumping nearly 30 times its height, thanks to what is arguably the world's smallest rubber...
Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department...
You can't complain that Jeff Hawkins is falsely modest. Hawkins, whose last triumph was inventing the PalmPilot, claims to have solved the greatest problem in...
Roboticists at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA, have developed a novel form of locomotion for robotics based on the way the single- celled amoeba moves....
A shoulder-mounted camera system that automatically tracks head movements and can recognise hand gestures has been developed by UK researchers. Eventually,...
You're high above the desert peaks. Your aircraft are approaching their targets. Information from instruments, cameras and radar is before your eyes. And with...
In a darkened loft in the industrial district of downtown Los Angeles, Gesture Studios CEO Kevin Parent slips on a pair of black gloves studded with iridescent...
My computer science classes do concept development projects that involve research into future technologies. For example, one project is to come up with a...
I think your class sounds like a whole lot of fun! <smile> As to the fear, most people rarely like to move very far from their "comfort zone". They like...
The beekeepers in the county I live in here in Colorado, have been checking their hives. This is apparently something they do every spring. One man who...