Archive for January, 2006
Biobullets.
Poisoned microcapsules have been developed to eradicate the zebra mussel.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Memo-rabilia
Western Union has discontinued its telegram service. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Hydroxyapatite-polymer composite.
Scientists have mimicked the way seawater freezes to create a strong porous bone-like material.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Fluid turbulence.
Scientists have solved the last great unsolved problem of classical physics.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
To serve man.
Man who has lived off roadkill for 30 years is authoring a cookbook. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Hearing aid.
Man’s deafness is cured after riding a ski lift. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Sonofusion.
Researchers have used oscillating sound waves to produce a shock wave that can induce nuclear fusion. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
California cocktail.
Prescription drug traces discovered in treated Los Angeles drinking water.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
RiVax.
Experimental vaccine is proving to be safe and effective in preventing ricin poisoning.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Next stop: sainthood.
Catholic nun inexplicably cured of Parkinson’s disease after praying to John Paul II.
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Ur in.
Nebraska college is text messaging acceptance notices to new students.
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Sticky situation.
Gumshoes finally nab the bubblegum bandit. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Unidentified buried object.
Large unknown man-made metal object to be unearthed from a Georgia cemetery. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Mesenchymal stem cells.
Scientists will try to make bones from human blood. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Oocyte cryopreservation.
Researchers have developed a procedure for women to freeze their eggs for later fertilization. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Optical matter arrays.
Scientists have assembled matter particles that are held together by light. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Waterbeds for Cows.
Industrial-duty waterbeds reduce stress for cows and increase milk production. (via)
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Dactylopius coccus costa.
Insect that is ground up and used as red dye in food and cosmetics.
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Brain-scanning technolgy that detects lying may soon be admissible as evidence in courts of law.
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Methane hydrates.
Scientists discover frozen methane gas deposits on ocean floor.
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Probable forgery.
Pennsylvania man signs his name as ‘God‘.
Post date: Saturday, January 28th, 2006.
Freegans.
Environmental movement demonstrates how people can feed themselves for free by rescuing food thrown away by others. (via)
Post date: Saturday, January 28th, 2006.
Ivus.
Two frozen tsunamis crash into Alaskan shoreline. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Final note.
Scientists discover that dying stars emit a middle C range sound which ultimately causes them to explode.
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
H5N1 Vaccine.
Researchers say they have created a bird flu vaccine that is 100% effective in tests so far. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Acoustic swimmer denial system.
Sonar device targeting SCUBA-equipped terrorists causes severe gastic distress which makes the victim vomit in their mask. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Workers comp.
Insurance underwriter wins lawsuit against her employer for tripping over a stack of claims forms. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Offensive odors.
California declares secondhand smoke a toxic pollutant.
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Diapause.
Scorpion lives for 15 months trapped inside a plaster mold. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Archosaur.
210 million-year-old fossil discovered in the basement of a New York museum. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Moonrakers.
Russia is planning to build a mine on the moon to harvest helium-3.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Invisibility cloak.
Russian inventor is awarded a patent for inventing ‘a sub-micron stratum of microscopical colloid golden particles that makes an object placed behind it invisible for an observer‘. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Go to heaven!
Kenyan woman curses God and dies in her sleep.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Eternal City.
Plans discovered for Berlin to be rebuilt in the likeness of St. Peter’s Square after Hitler conquered the world. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Electron tomography.
Scientists discover how the influenza virus organizes and replicates.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
THOR.
NASA planning to drop a quarter-ton impactor ball on Mars to study the ejecta that it blasts.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Hello Kitty Robo.
Japanese employment agency is offering employers robot receptionists.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Subglacial ecosystems.
Underwater lakes discovered in Antarctica that have been untouched for 35 million years.
Post date: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006.
Viganella.
Italian town is building a giant mirror to give itself some sunlight. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006.
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