Archive for March, 2008
TRPC5 calcium ion channels.
Researcher studying chloroform may have discovered how anesthesia actually works.
Post date: Monday, March 31st, 2008.
No K8538.
Cuneiform tablet is deciphered and believed to be a Sumerian account of a meteor impact.
Post date: Monday, March 31st, 2008.
Origami in space.
JAXA to launch a paper airplane from space to see if it can make it back to earth.
Post date: Friday, March 28th, 2008.
Au clair de la lune.
Recording of the earliest known sound is now online.
Post date: Thursday, March 27th, 2008.
Technosexual.
Man describes his sexual relationships with robots.
Post date: Wednesday, March 26th, 2008.
Extracellular matrix.
Man’s severed fingertip grows back from a powder derived from pig bladders. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 24th, 2008.
Vegetation echoes.
Researchers use sound waves to identify different plant species by their unique echoes. (via)
Post date: Sunday, March 23rd, 2008.
Emirates flight EK751.
Airline allows the first authorized use of cell phone calls on a commercial flight.
Post date: Friday, March 21st, 2008.
No gravity needed.
Astronaut makes a boomerang work in outer space.
Post date: Friday, March 21st, 2008.
HD 189733b.
Astronomers detect the life-forming molecule methane on a planet 63 light years away.
Post date: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008.
Mail Back program.
USPS to test recycling service that lets you mail unwanted electronic items for free.
Post date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2008.
U.S. v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins.
Asset forfeiture involving 32 tons of shark fins. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2008.
Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery.
Patient has appendix removed through his mouth.
Post date: Monday, March 17th, 2008.
Dark Ages Lunar Interferometer.
Telescope to be installed on the Moon that will see the beginnings of the universe. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 17th, 2008.
Cow Power.
Energy company to begin producing natural gas from animal waste. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 14th, 2008.
SUN.
Scientist discovers gene that controls the shape of fruit.
Post date: Thursday, March 13th, 2008.
SATB1 gene.
Scientists identify gene that is responsible for causing breast cancer to metastasize.
Post date: Wednesday, March 12th, 2008.
Organic light-emitting diode.
GE has manufactured the first ‘roll-to-roll’ flexible lighting device. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 12th, 2008.
Korphos-Kalamianos.
Archaeologists are exploring a lost city built by the Mycenaeans 3500 years ago.
Post date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2008.
Doomsday ark.
Lunar vault being planned that will remotely safeguard essential information about life on Earth.
Post date: Monday, March 10th, 2008.
Eddie.
Researchers have created a Second Life character that has the reasoning ability of a 4-year-old child.
Post date: Monday, March 10th, 2008.
Dextre.
Robot that will be assembled by astronauts aboard the ISS. (via)
Post date: Sunday, March 9th, 2008.
Zero Emission Data Center.
Cooling system developed that allows heat from computer chips to be used for domestic heating.
Post date: Sunday, March 9th, 2008.
Microbacterium hatanonis.
Scientists discover a new strain of bacteria that lives in hairspray. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 7th, 2008.
You Make It, We Play It.
Advertisement contest that will broadcast the winning entry into outer space.
Post date: Friday, March 7th, 2008.
CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Scientists have engineered immune cells that attack and kill HIV.
Post date: Friday, March 7th, 2008.
RoboSwift.
Aircraft with morphing wings that mimic the natural flight of birds.
Post date: Friday, March 7th, 2008.
Masdar Headquarters.
Building designed to produce more energy than it consumes. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 6th, 2008.
MagneTrace.
Necklace that detects and records the medications you swallow.
Post date: Thursday, March 6th, 2008.
MindwireV5.
Gaming accessory that delivers electric shocks to the user. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008.
Vulture program.
DARPA is designing an unmanned aircraft that can fly for 5 years straight.
Post date: Tuesday, March 4th, 2008.
Schwarz-Christoffel formula.
Professor solves 140 year old math problem.
Post date: Monday, March 3rd, 2008.
Mobile Digital Scribe.
Pen that captures sketches/handwriting and stores it as a JPEG.
Post date: Monday, March 3rd, 2008.
Squeezed vacuum.
Physicists successfully store nothing and retrieve it.
Post date: Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.
Dryvax.
Last 12 million doses of the oldest smallpox vaccine to be destroyed.
Post date: Saturday, March 1st, 2008.
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