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More Desert Mirror in Arizona

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Feb 21st 2008 1 Comment

Next time you flight over Phoenix, take a look outside the window, you may find world’s largest parabolic mirrors, 2,700 of them, spread over a 3-mile-square stretch of desert about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix.

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23andMe Personal Genome Service

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Feb 18th 2008 No Comments

So this company sends you a kit, and you send it back with some saliva (drool) and a thousand dollars and they’ll genotype your ass. You they check about 600,000 data points in your DNA and can inform you of bad things to come, such as inherited defects, a predisposition to certain health conditions, things of that nature.

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Nanotechnology Fabric generates Electricity, not for Bed-Wetter

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Feb 14th 2008 No Comments

The Wang’s nano-squad at Georgia Tech has developed a microfiber-infused nanogenerator to harvest energy from physical movement. The fiber can be embedded into human wearable shirt, then harness power from simply walking around or even from a slight breeze.

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute underwater glider is self propelled

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Feb 8th 2008 No Comments

This little glider can power itself for months on end, well, at least its movement could be powered by itself. It still needs battery power for all the electronics inside that make it useful, but it can use the oceans warm upper layer and cool lower layer to move.

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Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Ticket to Travel in Space.

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Jan 23rd 2008 No Comments

The space tourism company Virgin Galactic unveiled a new model of the commercial spaceship, SpaceShip Two rocket plane and WhiteKnight Two mothership in New York today. The owner Richard Branson says he is hoping the new design will provide paying passengers into space on a regular basic next year. The commercialize space business from Virgin Galactic offers once in a lifetime space travel experience and it’s 10 times less than what Dennis Tito, a US businessman paid for his $20 million expedition by Space Adventures of Vienna in 2001.

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Lithium-Ion batteries receive 10x battery life boost

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Jan 2nd 2008 No Comments

nanowires I don’t know much of anything about the science behind batteries, but I do know that a battery life boost of 10x is something I am very interested in. Apparently the gist of what’s needed to get that sizeable of a boost is to change the platform or anode from the carbon that is currently used to silicon, which is already in use in tons of other electronics in other capacities.

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Scientific Socks have the periodic table on them

By Christina Crouch on Friday, Dec 14th 2007 No Comments

I’m a sucker for socks. I have them in all shapes, sizes and colors and one for every occasion. Once, I even bought a new outfit just because it matched my favorite pair of socks, that’s the crazy girl gene coming out of me. The nerd gene, which makes it’s appearance often, has teamed up with it’s rival and I’m buying a pair of these socks.

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Street lights powered by human waste

By Abby McVay on Friday, Dec 14th 2007 No Comments

Street Lamp Pole thumb Finally, someone uses something that we have plenty of, because lets face it we are all full of shit. In a town in India they have started using the methane gas produced by the human waste to operate a generator.

The waste from an area housing complex collects in a sump, where the methane gas is then used to operate a generator. The biogas produces 3,000 watts of electricity daily, enough to keep the town going all through the night.

To see the entire process of how it all happens, just follow the link below. Now if only we could create a car that can run off of a tank full of cans and other random garbage.

Video: Human Waste Powers Streetlights [via national geographic]

Genius Scientists create a smart bra

By Abby McVay on Tuesday, Dec 11th 2007 No Comments

Well meaning scientists decided to create a smart bra. This bra was fastened to a few women who were size D cup or above to see where the strain and discomfort was. They used a special ‘revolutionary’ fabric containing sensors.

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Hackers have broken into the two most important science labs in the US

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Dec 7th 2007 2 Comments

The first is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which I assume is somewhere near Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee. The second was the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of the A-Bomb testing and development.

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