In one of those “life imitates art” situations, there’s now a shot, however thin it may be, that somebody with the money to throw at the project could actually arrange for extinct animals to be re-created by engineering DNA from samples of the long dead critters
There’s actually a small but growing group of people, amateur scientists, that are working on building fusion reactors. Quite a few of them have actually built working fusion reactors in their basements and attic labs.
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For those who haven’t heard of it, here’s a ‘nutshell’ description of what it is from the Google Lunar X Prize website:
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded [...]
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Some Scientists at the University of Copenhagen recently managed to recover Authentic DNA from 1000 year old Viking Skeletons.
According to the article this discovery means that not only is it now possible to recover ancient DNA but that the DNA in question can be analyzed much the same as modern DNA, [...]
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Arthur C. Clarke may have passed on recently but his works live on. Many are familiar with him as the author of such classic works as Rendezvous With Rama, Earthlight, Childhood’s End and of course; 2001 A Space Odyssey and it’s sequels. He is also credited with popularizing the [...]
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It’s interesting or even a bit ironic that this BBC News article shows up when it does, in time for the Iron man movie. With the advances being made in robotics these days and the fact that they’re showing up everywhere from robotic vacuum cleaners to steam cleaner and lawnmowers.
Sooner [...]
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So says an interesting article in the Wall ST Journal. It talks about a study that was done a couple of years ago when Indiana changed from only having 15 counties change to daylight savings time to having the entire state do so.
This study found that making the change to [...]
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Here’s a “cool” development. MSI has come out with a new cooling system that could replace the traditional cooling fan. It’s based on the Stirling Engine Theory, a process that uses waste heat to power a fan that cools the Mobo. The thing doesn’t use any other power [...]
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I just read something on a website that I found by following a link from slashdot that I cannot for the life of me understand why it’s not headline news all over the place. Researchers have discovered a gene that blocks the spread of HIV.
It’s really simple sounding, when this [...]
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The one thing that comes to mind with this story is why haven’t we heard about this before now? Specifically, some scientists accidentally discover that a form of deep brain stimulation of part of the hypothalamus.
They were trying to influence this guy’s appetite in an experimental approach to weight control [...]
