22/03/2009. Nanotech Batteries For A New Energy Future. cgc i

15/03/2009. 'Mind-reading' comes a step closer. For the first time Scientists say they have understood someone's thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing. cgc i

21/02/2009. A Robot has been designed to mimic the actions of a child - findings could lead to the development of humanoid robots which learn, think and talk. cgc i

16/02/2009. Nuclear Fusion - How to build a Star on Earth to get us out of our Energy crisis. cgc i

17/01/2009. Next Generation Cloaking Device Demonstrated.

A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is (now officially) closer to reality. This latest advance was made possible through the use of exotic composite materials known as metamaterials. These materials can be engineered to have properties not easily found in natural materials, and can be used to form a variety of "cloaking" structures. These structures guide electromagnetic waves around an object, only to have them emerge on the other side as if they had passed through an empty volume of space. cgc i

Invisibilty and metamaterials

05/01/2009. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously thought. This increase in speed increases the Milky Way's mass by 50%. This puts our Galaxy on equal terms with the Andromeda Galaxy, our sister, in the Local Group family. cgc i

04/01/2009. The Priore Machine Cures Cancer.

In the 1960's there was great interest in what was known as The Great Bordeaux Magnetic Machine Mystery. The machine, built at the University of Bordeaux by Antoine Priore, a 62-year-old electrical engineer, was originally used to kill micro-organisms that produce rot in fresh vegetables and fruit. Subsequently, it was reported that beneficial effects on experimental subjects (mice, rats and rabbits) were obtained by the radiation emanating from the machine. Tests made with the Prior machine on cancer tissues ALWAYS caused TOTAL REMISSION in all tissues exposed to the peach blossom violet colour which the machine emitted.

The machines of Antoine Priore were dismantled shortly after his death in the early 1980's. cgc i

26/12/2008. Will Obama pursue space-based solar power?

24/12/2008. A team of collaborators from top institutions have been awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first phase of DARPA's Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) project. Their task? To build a 'cognitive computer', equivalent in size to that of a small mammal's brain, that can learn from experience. cgc i 

24/12/2008. Q. When is a Solid not a Solid? A. When it is Glass! Despite its solid appearance, glass is actually a 'jammed' state of matter that moves very slowly so it never quite becomes a 'proper' solid. cgc i

01/12/2008. What is Time? Physicists have become increasingly argumentative about what exactly 'Time' is and are now beginning to recognise it as perhaps the most fundamental question of all. cgci

28/11/2008. Twinity's 'Metaverse' Berlin allows you to be in two places at once. In this virtual City, where actual building facades are faithfully reproduced, visitors will have no transport concerns as Tourists will simply be able to teleport to key locations to visit Galleries, go on-line shopping or just to meet other people. cgci 

24/11/2008. IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make 'brain like' computers. cgci

23/11/2008. Nanotechnology. Do you know what that is and how it will change your life?

17/11/2008.

 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to cost £14m to repair and to be back up and running for June 2009. cgci

15/11/2008. College installs high-tech virtual reality studio. cgci 

15/11/2008. Google Earth recreates ancient Rome with Virtual Time Machine. cgci 

08/11/2008. Researchers have developed some of the tiniest solar cells ever made and the organic material could potentially be painted or sprayed on to surfaces such as houses or clothing to enable the powering of electrical items. 

08/11/2008. Scientists have found a way to get damaged nerve cells in the brains of mice to repair themselves, a finding that may lead to new treatments for brain and spinal cord injuries. cgci

08/11/2008. Cosmetics containing 'nano' particles are being widely used despite issues surrounding their safety. cgci

08/11/2008. The world's first commercially available bionic hand has been recognised as one of the top inventions of 2008. cgci

03/11/2008. Future astronauts could benefit from a magnetic "umbrella" that deflects harmful space radiation from around their capsule. 

03/11/2008. Japanese scientists have created clones from the bodies of mice which have been frozen for 16 years. 

01/11/2008. Scientists have a working prototype of a fully artificial heart ready for implanting in humans. 

29/10/2008. Microsoft has launched a new platform, Windows Azure, in which data and applications will not be stored on individuals' computers. 

27/10/2008. The Aurora Borealis. Natural light displays? At night?

 

26/10/2008. EU to enforce 'virtual strip search' at airports by 2010 - DELAYED.

"It is unacceptable, if scanners are used, these are machines that see you completely naked," said Martin Schulz, leader of the socialist grouping in the EU assembly.

"This is an offence against human dignity," he added. 

'Buckyballs' have a high potential of being accumulated in living tissue. cgci 

European Scientists plan asteriod sample grab. cgci

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has photographed several 'dust devils' dancing across the Mars arctic plain.

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Call for creationism in science. cgci 

A study idicates that only Japan has the broadband quality to cope with next-generation internet applications. The UK falls below the quality threshold for today's web. cgci

Nano-sized 'Cargo Ships' Developed To Target And Destroy Tumors. cgci

A Guide to Climate Change: 

Eat less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist. cgci

Computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly.   

Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and to imagine the future are strikingly similar. They have observed the same regions of the brain activated whenever a person remembers an event from the past or are imagining themselves in a future situation. This challenges long-standing beliefs that thoughts about the future develop exclusively in the frontal lobe. cgci  

A memory trick has helped show researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories. cgci

Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic 'dark matter' which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.

(Image: Courtesy of NASA).

Dark matter is shown in blue, ordinary matter is coloured pink. cgci

City of the Future? Dubai's latest offering is a carbon-neutral 'pyramid' city. 

 

The 2.3-square kilometer building would be able to house over 1 million people and be almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise.  

The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things. cgci  

Photonic crystals -- materials with precise patterns of gaps that make them reflect only selected wavelengths of light -- could soon replace the traditional ink-based fingerprinting. cgci  

The idea may scare some, but Intel predicts that by 2050 machines could surpass the peak of human intelligence. On the day when humans create a machine smarter than they are - the moment has been dubbed "The Singularity". cgci  

The Earth's temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted. cgci 

A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. cgci 

Japanese scientists say they have created human stem cells from tissue taken from the discarded wisdom teeth of a 10-year-old girl. The researchers say their work suggests that wisdom teeth could be a suitable alternative to human embryos as a source for therapeutic stem cells.

Say goodbye to the tangle of cables and the wall socket and hello to powering up your electronic gizmos wirelessly. This picture of a world without wires is one long dreamed of (see the catgonecrazy Book page and the Inventions of Nikola Tesla) and came a step closer following significant progress made by Intel who have said that they have increased the efficiency of a technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers. cgci  

A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an electronic 'brain' modelled on the human cerebellum. cgci

Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible. cgci

Scientists have developed the world's thinnest balloon made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick that is impermeable to even the smallest gas molecules.

The image shows a multi-layer graphene membrane that could be used in various applications, including filters and sensors. (Credit: Jonathan Alden) cgci

NASA has pushed back by a year its internal target date for flying the successor to the Shuttle.

Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Orion ship. cgci

Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads into Renewable Energy Source

A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has found a way of using the heat-soaking property of Asphalt as an alternative energy source. Through asphalt, the researchers are developing a solar collector that could turn roads and parking lots into ubiquitous-and inexpensive-sources of electricity and hot water. cgci

Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors

Growing a mixed "lawn" of two kinds of nanowires can make a new kind of light-sensing array that could be made in metre-scale sheets.The nanowires, which are a few tenths of a millimetre long and a few tens of nanometres wide, can be printed onto anything from silicon to plastic or paper. The researchers behind the prototype say such cheap, high-quality image sensors would allow uses not conceivable using today's more expensive technology. cgci 

Computer graphics already provide stunning visuals and now designers are trying to make the feeling of playing games as realistic as possible. This includes simulating what it feels like to be sliced with a sword or to have cockroaches crawling on your arm. cgci