Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists
A revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim.
By Jasper Copping
Last Updated: 2:39PM GMT 29 Nov 2008
Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists. Existing technologies require an average current of five or six […]
“It’s ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure,” said James McCarthy, a Harvard University oceanographer who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “You’d […]
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the […]
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Maximilien Brice / CERN
Super-smasher targets a massive mysteryThe world’s largest science experiment will re-create big-bang energies on the smallest scale, as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to solve the biggest puzzle in physics.(MSNBC.com)
Image: (Man with sledgehammer) entertheiphone.com
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August 23, 2008
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Digging Ourselves a Black Hole
By GAIL COLLINS
Exciting times coming up, people. Democratic convention! Republican convention! And then, on Sept. 10, the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider!
The Large Hadron, you may remember, is the 17-mile-long particle accelerator being built near Geneva. Once it’s up and running, its designers believe it […]
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(Kimberly White/Reuters)
First, don’t these guys know their country was just at war?
Second, don’t they realize that wearing hats which state:
(Kimberly White/Reuters)
“Best Trackers In The World
Bigfoottracker.com”
may leave more than a few people skeptical.
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Bigfoot stored in a 1955 Amana Sasquatch Ice King Deep Freeze
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By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer
August 15, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot […]
$5.8 million buys a lot of CD cleaner.
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Images: (Hatfill) via images.mirror.co.uk; (Anthrax) via farm1.static.flickr.com
Phoenix makes picture-perfect Mars landing
After touchdown, first images show unfurled solar panels, arctic horizon
MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 1:20 a.m. ET, Mon., May. 26, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down in Mars’ northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of […]
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Images: (real cover of Popular Science) blog.modernmechanix.com; (parlor) moviemail-online.co.uk
after a weekend of History, Discovery and National Geographic channels,
enjoy this latest glimpse of doom.
Real Death Star Could Strike Earth
Charles Q. Choi
Special to SPACE.com
SPACE.com
March 10, 2008
A beautiful pinwheel in space might one day blast Earth with death rays, scientists now report.
Unlike the moon-sized Death Star from Star Wars, which has to get close to […]
But, it will move to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
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By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 19 September 2006 08:58 am ET
Simulated event of the collision of two protons in a particle accelerator viewed along the beam pipe. The colors of the tracks emanating from the center show the different types of particles emerging from the collision. […]