March 18, 2010

New Rocket Engine Could Reach Mars in 40 Days

Future Mars outposts or colonies may seem more distant than ever with NASA's exploration plans in flux, but the rocket technology that could someday propel a human mission to the red planet in as ...
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January 15, 2010

The dangers of a high-information diet

NO ONE ever tells you how dangerous this stuff can be: they just go on pumping it out, hour after hour, day after day. You're consuming it right now, without a clue about the ...
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January 15, 2010

Fetal Cells Return as a Parkinson’s Cure

President Franklin D. Roosevelt admonished in a 1932 commencement address that “it is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.” FDR had the ...
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January 15, 2010

Cocaine found in shuttle work area, NASA says

NASA has launched an extensive investigation to determine how a small amount of cocaine ended up in a space shuttle hangar at the agency's Florida spaceport. Read more
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January 9, 2010

How to make a liquid invisibility cloak

When J. K. Rowling described Harry Potter's invisibility cloak as "fluid and silvery", she probably wasn't thinking specifically about silver-plated nanoparticles suspended in water. But a team of theorists believe that using such a ...
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January 7, 2010

Ex drugs tsar creates synthetic alcohol that gives you a buzz without the hangover

An alcohol substitute that gives the drinker the pleasant feelings of tipsiness without an unpleasant hangover, is being developed by researchers. The team, led by drugs expert Professor David Nutt, has developed the drink using ...
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December 30, 2009

Sea Lions Mysteriously Disappear From Pier 39

Last month, marine scientists counted more than 1,500 sea lions on fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts. Why so many? Why were they sticking around? But now, almost ...
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December 28, 2009

HD Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception

A contemporary science fiction tale set within the architecture of the human mind.
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December 22, 2009

Sex study ruined by porn-loving men

Scientists had to give up on a study of pornography - because they couldn't find any men who had not watched hardcore movies before. Read more
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December 22, 2009

Doctors to operate on ‘Tortoise Woman’

A Chinese woman is to have surgery to remove a 25kg tumour from her back after doctors agreed to operate for free. Sun Fengqin, 47, from Inner Mongolia - dubbed 'Tortoise Woman' - could ...
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