· The Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the money
· In proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super Dome
· The Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St....
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Gene Therapy Hope for HIV: Engineered Stem Cells Hold Promise
Gene Therapy Hope for HIV: Engineered Stem Cells Hold Promise When it comes to research on HIV and AIDS treatments, it can be hard to know when to celebrate a small advance–everyone wants to see progress, but so many experimental avenues that seemed promising have turned out to be dead ends. Still, a new study that tried a sophisticated form of gene therapy as an HIV treatment seems cause for cautious optimism. If it bears out under...
Zero-Energy Fridge Uses Gel to Preserve Food
Zero-Energy Fridge Uses Gel to Preserve Food Written by Megan Treacy on 16/06/10
This one's a weird one, kids, but still cool. A new concept for a zero-energy refrigerator uses an odor-free, gel-like substance to cool and preserve food items.
The Bio Robot Refrigerator was designed by Yuriy Dmitriev and is currently a semifinalist in Electrolux's Design Lab competition. The Bio Robot has no motor, compressor...
2013 Solar Storm Expected To Cause Trouble
(Telegraph) - National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years.
Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
In...
NASA: Moon may have more water than the Great Lakes
NASA: Moon may have more water than the Great Lakes The fight to keep Great Lakes water in the Great Lakes isn’t just regional anymore. Things just got global, if not interplanetary.
That’s because new NASA-funded research suggests that the amount of water locked up in Earth’s longtime orbital nemesis — the moon — could exceed the volume of the Great Lakes.
So unless the region conserves every drop it can, I’ll have...
Planes Punch Holes in Clouds and Create Rain
Look up in the sky near an airport and you might see some unusual cloud formations. The one on the left is called a “hole-punch,” and meteorologists have been speculating on the cause. They suggested that the holes may have been the result of shock waves from jets or warming of the air by jets.
Researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and elsewhere now say that the odd-shaped clouds can be caused by either turboprop or...
NASA Discovers 300 Planets outside Solar system
NASA has proclaimed that it has discovered as many as 300 planets surrounding the solar system. As per their estimations, these planets are as large as the size of Earth.
The observations have been made from Kepler orbiting telescope, which was placed in the orbit in March, last year. The spacecraft has identified the indications of a planet crossing nearly 700 stars.
The lead author of the current study, William Borucki, said that the existence of the planets has not been given any approval from other scientists, as there are rooms for...
The future of summer: Air conditioners that are 90 percent more efficient
Air conditioners are a pain. They use an incredible amount of energy, reflected in incredibly high electricity bills in the summer months. But in some places, like Texas and Arizona, it’s hard to go without them. Now, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory may have an answer to the problem: A brand new air conditioning design that could make AC units 90 percent more efficient than they are today.
This is not just a new spin...
Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars
Seventh Graders Find a Cave on MarsJune 17, 2010
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Sixteen seventh-grade students at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the Martian pit feature at the center of the superimposed red square in this image while participating in a program that enables students to use the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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Human Race "Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years," Claims Leading Scientist
Human Race "Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years," Claims Leading Scientist
Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not surviveAs the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.
And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.
He has claimed that...
Friday, June 18, 2010
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