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In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said. The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell, according to the study published in Scien
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SPEN, Colorado - You don’t have to pack your bags quite yet, but passenger travel to the Moon is on the flight manifest of a space tourist company.
The price per seat will slap your wallet or purse for a swift $100 million - but you’ll have to get in line as the first voyage is already booked…
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The OpenMoko Neo 1973 has a touchscreen, WiFi, GPS and runs Linux. Unlike the iPhone, it is completely open for developers. They even include a guitar pick so you can ply open the case. Developer version goes on sale for $300 on July 9th.
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A Hong Kong-based renewable energy entrepreneur and the inventor of the idea, says an average person can produce 50 watts of electricity per hour. He explains how the energy created by the exercisers is transformed into electricity.
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Aboriginal Australians have used tea tree oil for hundreds of years made from the sticky leaves of the Melaleuca alternifolia plant and it is known to cure many common ailments from athlete’s foot to headaches and it can be used on your pet’s ear mites as well.
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A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.
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Without any sort of fanfare, AT&T Inc. has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, half the price of its cheapest advertised plan
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This fantastic design for an enormous hydroponic “vertical farm” skyscraper would mean fresh, locally-grown organic food for 35,000 city residents. The building is 715-feet high and looks straight out of a sci-fi flick!
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“The opportunities are endless” — we say: prove it. Glucose has been the building block for many zany creations ’round these parts, but using the widely available substance to create “products currently created from petroleum” has some fairly far reaching consequences.
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Scientists hope the engine will ultimately propel the next generation of supersonic planes, with predictions a flight between Sydney and London could take just two hours.
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Farming up the side of a skyscraper.
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Scientists have found a way of converting plant sugars into the primary building block for fuel, and polyesters. That building block is called HMF, and is viewed as a promising surrogate for petroleum-based plastics.
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There are a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices in the world — cell phones, headsets, cameras, keyboards, printers. Another 13 million of them are being sold every week. But that’s chump change compared with the growth that analysts expect to see once a new version of the short-range wireless technology makes its way into products later this year
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A 64-core chip, for instance, might contain 42 x86 cores, 18 accelerators and four embedded graphics cores.
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A team from UCLA are working on developing a mobile MESH network which grows organically as cars link up with each other to create their own wirless network.
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The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world
’s first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.
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The engine works by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms and accelerating the resulting plasma in an electric field. Expelling the plasma out of the back of the engine generates thrust
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Manufactured from fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion with a worldwide surplus production running in the hundreds of millions of tons each year, these new bricks are as strong and safe as the bricks we’re all used to seeing, cost 20% less to make, and are far more environmentally friendly.
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A West Coast scientist who believes it may be possible to transmit information backwards through time has been funded by individual donations after established mad-scientist groups refused to cough up.
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“An article in science blog says we may have to rethink how genes work. So called “junk DNA” actually appears to be functional. What’s more it works in a mysterious way involving multiple overlaps that seems to be connected in some sort of network.”
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A company called Marine Current Turbines will be installing a 1.2 megawatt tidal turbine off the coast of Northern Ireland in August.
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Alien worlds, once hidden from knowledge, are now being discovered in droves, stunning astronomers with their unique features and sheer numbers. The discoveries are so common that more and more don’t even get reported outside scientific circles.
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A simple, cheap treatment using just oxygen could allow growers to store organic produce for longer and go a long way towards reducing the price of organic fruit and vegetables.
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Tata motors, the Indian company which is bringing us the air car in partnership with the French MDI, spent three years conducting all sorts of tests on it before signing an agreement. The sales manager of MDI recounts how they ran out of money in 2003 until it was saved by the 5.5 billion Tata group who first came to check if the car real!
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Water (or perhaps clear ice) found on Mars!!!! (with picture). A new analysis of pictures taken by the exploration rover Opportunity reveals what appear to be small ponds of liquid water on the surface of Mars.
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Green skyscrapers offer so much for the average “EcoGeek” to drool over. Each one can contain hundreds of innovations that make the world a cleaner place, they build up, rather than out, and many of them are freaking gorgeous. Here are the top 10.
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Capable of detecting both the concentration of motile sperm as well as a hormone which indicates egg quality, Fertell promises to give fairly accurate results for both him and her in under a half-hour
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Boeing has just completed their firing tests for the stunning X-51A WaveRider Scramjet and if you want to know what hell looks like, this is it.
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The Burj Dubai will be the world’s tallest tower and the centerpiece of the Gulf regions most prestigious urban development to date. Damn how much money does Dubai have. A couple of island groups, a rotating building and underwater hotel. I just just know on this one, I want to own the “Oxygen Bar” on the top floor.
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Assuming Iraq exported 1.4 million barrels of $60 petroleum daily, revenues would total $30.7 billion annually. Some 28.8 million Iraqis would share one-third of this, or about $355 each. Though modest by U.S. standards, this figure exceeds 10 percent of Iraq’s $3,400 per-capita gross domestic product. Families and individuals could (more)
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A new tough - and secret - formulation of polyethylene fiber is, weight for weight, 15 times stronger than steel and 40% stronger than that other staple of the bulletproof vest, Kevlar. Article includes an interesting discussion of how vests are tested… who knew that they used cadavers?!
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According to a recent Roper survey commissioned by Sharp Electronics Corporation, nearly 90 percent of Americans think that solar electricity should be an option for all new home construction, up significantly from one year ago (79 percent).
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