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Researchers found a "repulsive" light force along with the complementary "attractive" light force. This means that future nanodevices could be controlled by light instead of electricity...it is amazing to me that light can actually be used to physically move components!
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6776&s=t
Study found that the way that swine flu multiples in the respiratory more severe than ordinary winter flu. On a positive note, blood tests show that many people who were born before the 1918 flu pandemic seem to have *immunity* to the current swine flu, but not to the seasonal flu that hits every year:
Article link
ExxonMobil expects to invest $600 million in a new biofuel from algae. Algae used in fuel does not generate any greenhouse gasses and they said that they will be able to produce more than 2,000 gallons of fuel per acre with algae, far better than the 250 gallons an acre for corn:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gaKs6antc-yzgr2AEZj2gcIKb4Cw
Scientists may have found a combination of techniques that can lead to earlier and more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's:
Article link
This German electric bicycle reaches a top speed of 50 mph but monitoring the driver's muscular effort and multiplying it by up to a factor of 50. It is currently for sale for $45k:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/07/e-bike-boost-muscle-power-50-times-for.html
This article explains why US Generals chose buying more electronics-jamming EA-18G Growlers over buying more F-22 Raptors. I didn't realize that the jamming planes have already flown 2,000 missions in Afghanistan! The planes can jam a wide range of signals including cell phones and IED detonators:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/us-boosts-secretive-jammer-fleet/
Interesting article about the importance of submarines to the US military and how life is aboard a sub:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/life-in-a-submarine-tasty-mullet-free/
Japanese scientists are working on robotic insects, where robotic moths could sniff out drugs stashes and robot-bees could go through earthquake rubble to find survivors, etc.:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
DARPA is funding research on cyborg crickets to detect chemical and biological agents on the battlefield or find survivors of earthquakes and other disasters. The Pentagon-sponsored researchers are looking to implant a package of electronics in crickets or other insects that communicate via wing-beats that will cause the insects to modulate their calls in the presence of certain chemicals:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327165.900-cyborg-crickets-could-chirp-at-the-smell-of-survivors.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech
UK scientists have come up with a hair test that can check the alibis of terrorist suspects and asylum seekers. Laser scans of hair strands can apparently reveal where a person has lived over the past 2 months:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/12/hair-tests-spot-terrorist
Card skimming and ATM bombings have been such a big problem in South Africa that some of their ATMs have been equipped with pepper spray. Unfortunately, they have already had at least one incident where the pepper spray accidentally went off and sprayed innocent people:
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20090709112643917C840069
Microsoft and Google are going after each other again, with Microsoft announcing that they plan to go after Google Doc's online apps market:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45230&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Ericsson called South Korea's announcement of their $1.5 billion R&D investment in South Korea "premature":
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/981f080e-6fdd-11de-b835-00144feabdc0.html
South Korea's Presidential office responded to that article by saying that Ericsson *did* say that they may invest $1.5 billion in South Korea for R&D. Note the word "may" in their defense...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=arU0r5RFfczU
The Iowa State Fair found that their plans for a Michael Jackson statue made of butter is so controversial that they have to put the proposal up for a vote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31802599/ns/us_news-weird_news/
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6776&s=t
Study found that the way that swine flu multiples in the respiratory more severe than ordinary winter flu. On a positive note, blood tests show that many people who were born before the 1918 flu pandemic seem to have *immunity* to the current swine flu, but not to the seasonal flu that hits every year:
Article link
ExxonMobil expects to invest $600 million in a new biofuel from algae. Algae used in fuel does not generate any greenhouse gasses and they said that they will be able to produce more than 2,000 gallons of fuel per acre with algae, far better than the 250 gallons an acre for corn:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gaKs6antc-yzgr2AEZj2gcIKb4Cw
Scientists may have found a combination of techniques that can lead to earlier and more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's:
Article link
This German electric bicycle reaches a top speed of 50 mph but monitoring the driver's muscular effort and multiplying it by up to a factor of 50. It is currently for sale for $45k:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/07/e-bike-boost-muscle-power-50-times-for.html
This article explains why US Generals chose buying more electronics-jamming EA-18G Growlers over buying more F-22 Raptors. I didn't realize that the jamming planes have already flown 2,000 missions in Afghanistan! The planes can jam a wide range of signals including cell phones and IED detonators:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/us-boosts-secretive-jammer-fleet/
Interesting article about the importance of submarines to the US military and how life is aboard a sub:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/life-in-a-submarine-tasty-mullet-free/
Japanese scientists are working on robotic insects, where robotic moths could sniff out drugs stashes and robot-bees could go through earthquake rubble to find survivors, etc.:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
DARPA is funding research on cyborg crickets to detect chemical and biological agents on the battlefield or find survivors of earthquakes and other disasters. The Pentagon-sponsored researchers are looking to implant a package of electronics in crickets or other insects that communicate via wing-beats that will cause the insects to modulate their calls in the presence of certain chemicals:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327165.900-cyborg-crickets-could-chirp-at-the-smell-of-survivors.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech
UK scientists have come up with a hair test that can check the alibis of terrorist suspects and asylum seekers. Laser scans of hair strands can apparently reveal where a person has lived over the past 2 months:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/12/hair-tests-spot-terrorist
Card skimming and ATM bombings have been such a big problem in South Africa that some of their ATMs have been equipped with pepper spray. Unfortunately, they have already had at least one incident where the pepper spray accidentally went off and sprayed innocent people:
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20090709112643917C840069
Microsoft and Google are going after each other again, with Microsoft announcing that they plan to go after Google Doc's online apps market:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45230&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Ericsson called South Korea's announcement of their $1.5 billion R&D investment in South Korea "premature":
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/981f080e-6fdd-11de-b835-00144feabdc0.html
South Korea's Presidential office responded to that article by saying that Ericsson *did* say that they may invest $1.5 billion in South Korea for R&D. Note the word "may" in their defense...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=arU0r5RFfczU
The Iowa State Fair found that their plans for a Michael Jackson statue made of butter is so controversial that they have to put the proposal up for a vote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31802599/ns/us_news-weird_news/
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