Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.It also yielded [...] continue reading latest news

Tissue of dead humans to be cloned

Scientists are to be permitted to use tissue from dead people to create cloned human stem cells for research, under a legal change put forward by the government.Health ministers have proposed that laboratories should be allowed to use stored human tissue to create cloned embryonic stem cells without the explicit consent of the tissue donor. [...] continue reading latest news

Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of levitation

In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a personLevitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the [...] continue reading latest news

Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.It also yielded [...] continue reading latest news

Cure for deafness now within reach

Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests.The transfer of a specific gene is shown today by a milestone experiment to trigger the growth of new hair cells in the inner ear - the usually irreplaceable sensory cells that pick up sound vibrations and [...] continue reading latest news

Cure for deafness now within reach

Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests.The transfer of a specific gene is shown today by a milestone experiment to trigger the growth of new hair cells in the inner ear - the usually irreplaceable sensory cells that pick up sound vibrations and [...] continue reading latest news

Stem cells apparently cure boy’s fatal disease

The treatment uses umbilical and marrow cells to help develop normal skin. Doctors say it may move his genetic disorder, recessive epidermolysis bullosa, ‘off the incurable list’ for other patients.Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, researchers have apparently cured a fatal genetic disease in a 2-year-old Minneapolis boy, which could open [...] continue reading latest news

Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of levitation

In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a personLevitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the [...] continue reading latest news

The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least

Before we get to Ray Kurzweil’s plan for upgrading the “suboptimal software” in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a [...] continue reading latest news

Stem cells apparently cure boy’s fatal disease

The treatment uses umbilical and marrow cells to help develop normal skin. Doctors say it may move his genetic disorder, recessive epidermolysis bullosa, ‘off the incurable list’ for other patients.Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, researchers have apparently cured a fatal genetic disease in a 2-year-old Minneapolis boy, which could open [...] continue reading latest news

Weapons lab develops world’s fastest computer dubbed Roadrunner

WASHINGTON - Scientists unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear [...] continue reading latest news

The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least

Before we get to Ray Kurzweil’s plan for upgrading the “suboptimal software” in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a [...] continue reading latest news

Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug

(NaturalNews) Extracts from two Eurasian wildflowers are highly effective at killing the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Ireland.Researchers found that extracts from Inula helenium (commonly known as elecampane, horse-heal or marchalan) eliminated 100 percent of MRSA colonies upon exposure.I. helenium [...] continue reading latest news

Weapons lab develops world’s fastest computer dubbed Roadrunner

WASHINGTON - Scientists unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear [...] continue reading latest news

No Signs of Intelligent life on Earth, Says Stephen Hawking

An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.The hidden world — thought to be much bigger than Pluto based on the model — could explain unusual features of the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond Neptune littered [...] continue reading latest news

Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug

(NaturalNews) Extracts from two Eurasian wildflowers are highly effective at killing the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Ireland.Researchers found that extracts from Inula helenium (commonly known as elecampane, horse-heal or marchalan) eliminated 100 percent of MRSA colonies upon exposure.I. helenium [...] continue reading latest news

Large ‘Planet X’ May Lurk Beyond Pluto

An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.The hidden world — thought to be much bigger than Pluto based on the model — could explain unusual features of the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond Neptune littered [...] continue reading latest news

No Signs of Intelligent life on Earth, Says Stephen Hawking

An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.The hidden world — thought to be much bigger than Pluto based on the model — could explain unusual features of the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond Neptune littered [...] continue reading latest news

The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth?

Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be [...] continue reading latest news

Large ‘Planet X’ May Lurk Beyond Pluto

An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.The hidden world — thought to be much bigger than Pluto based on the model — could explain unusual features of the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond Neptune littered [...] continue reading latest news

The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth?

Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be [...] continue reading latest news

2 Billion may suffer from Mobile Cancer by 2020: Study

NEW DELHI: The studies and survey conducted by Australian Health Research Institute indicates that due to billions of times more in volume electromagnetic radiation emitted by billions of mobile phones, internet, intranet and wireless communication data transmission will make almost one-third of world population (about two billions) patient of ear, eye and brain cancer beside [...] continue reading latest news

2 Billion may suffer from Mobile Cancer by 2020: Study

NEW DELHI: The studies and survey conducted by Australian Health Research Institute indicates that due to billions of times more in volume electromagnetic radiation emitted by billions of mobile phones, internet, intranet and wireless communication data transmission will make almost one-third of world population (about two billions) patient of ear, eye and brain cancer beside [...] continue reading latest news

Pentagon Cannot Account For 2,3 TRILLION Dollars

(This is still important to know. - The Infinite Unknown) Source: You Tube continue reading latest news

Earth’s Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says

Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth’s liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet’s surface, a new study says.“What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth’s magnetic field,” said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space [...] continue reading latest news

The chemistry flops: Pupils baffled by O-level exams from the Sixties

Chemistry pupils have flunked O-level questions from 50 years ago, deepening fears that the subject is being dumbed down.The teenagers were unable to answer questions from the 1960s and 1970s set by the Royal Society of Chemistry.The average mark for the 1960s questions was just 16 per cent.Focused: A 1960 chemistry classYesterday, the society warned [...] continue reading latest news

Chimpanzees Beat Humans in Memory Test

(NaturalNews) Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.The research was carried out on three five-year-old chimpanzees that had been taught the order of the Arabic numerals 1 through 9, and 12 human [...] continue reading latest news

The Double Slit Experiment

Related articles: - Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of levitation- Math profs link particle actions, human free will- No Signs of Intelligent life on Earth, Says Stephen HawkingQuantum Physics is amazing!December 22, 2006Source: YouTube continue reading latest news

G. W. Bush and Adolf Hitler signed a Directive 51

A BBC story aired on July 23rd, 2007, documenting President George W. Bush’s grandfather’s involvement in a 1933 plot to overthrow the U.S. government and install a fascist dictatorship.Source: Bush Fulfills His Grandfather’s DreamPlot to overthrow FDR - Smetley Butler. Prescott BushSource: Google VideoHow on earth is it possible then, that G. W. Bush and [...] continue reading latest news

Nanotechnology In Food And Packaging Accepted By Consumers

ScienceDaily (July 20, 2008) - Consumers accept nanotechnology in nutrition for packaging and, to a lesser extent, even the food itself. This is according to a study from ETH Zurich’s Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED).In recent years, nanotechnology has joined gene and information technology in becoming a pinnacle of hope for research and industry. The [...] continue reading latest news

PTSD leaves physical footprints on the brain

At a recent conference for some of the area’s leading neurologists, San Francisco physicist Norbert Schuff captured his colleagues’ attention when he presented colorful brain images of U.S. soldiers who had returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.The yellow areas, Schuff explained during his presentation at the city’s Veterans Affairs [...] continue reading latest news

White House Briefed On Potential For Mars Life

The White House has been alerted by NASA about plans to make an announcement soon on major new Phoenix lander discoveries concerning the “potential for life” on Mars, scientists tell Aviation Week & Space Technology.Sources say the new data do not indicate the discovery of existing or past life on Mars. Rather the data relate [...] continue reading latest news

One Nation Under Siege - Full Theatrical Release

From documentary filmmaker William Lewis comes a bone chilling documentary on the spying, tracking and control of the American public.Source: Google Video continue reading latest news

Scientists stop the ageing process

There is more to life. The human body was not designed to “fall apart”.Nobel Prize winner Dr. Alexis Carrel was able to keep cells from a chicken heart alive and replicating new cells for 28 years, far outliving the life of a chicken which is 7 to 12 years. The cells did not die of [...] continue reading latest news

Teen finds MSG slows brain cell growth

Test by high school student working with researchers reveals food additive’s direct effect on neuronal abilityCALGARY - A Calgary researcher is getting ready to publish a groundbreaking study that links a popular food additive to reduced growth in the brain cells of snails — work that could have major implications for children’s health.Not bad for [...] continue reading latest news

The man with the answer to life, the universe and (nearly) everything

British scientist Peter Higgs dreamt up a theory explaining the tiny particles that make up everything, including you, decades ago. At last he’s set to be proved right.Peter Higgs remembers the day everything suddenly began to make sense. “It was July 16, 1964, when some new research papers arrived. I looked at one, realised what [...] continue reading latest news

Bruce Lipton - The New Biology - Where Mind and Matter Meet

The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change [...] continue reading latest news

Baking soda does speed you up, say scientists

Baking soda can cut seconds off speedScientists have proven what athletes have been claiming for years - that Granny’s old cure-all, bicarbonate of soda, can enhance performance.‘Soda-doping’, as it is known amongst professional sportsmen, can have a significant effect on endurance and speed.Baking soda appears to work best to enhance speed. A study at Loughborough [...] continue reading latest news

Music can boost your immune system

Listening to music can give your immune system a boost and may help fight off disease, researchers have discovered.Elvis Presley impersonators at a street party in Baker Street, central London Photo: EPAScientists found that after listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music, the levels of antibodies in volunteers’ bodies [...] continue reading latest news

Berkeley Scientists: Mass Extinction of Species

Scientists: Humans To BlameDevastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just the deaths of frogs and salamanders, University of California, Berkeley scientists said Tuesday.Researchers said substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet, [...] continue reading latest news

Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. This is the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date.The inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell was [...] continue reading latest news

A ‘Frankenrobot’ with a biological brain

PARIS (AFP) - Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday.Related article: ‘Brain’ in a dish flies flight simulatorTheir groundbreaking experiments explore the vanishing boundary [...] continue reading latest news

Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain

Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders.These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science — and if it’s not yet certain whether the technologies will work, the military is certainly taking them [...] continue reading latest news

Coastal Water Study: ‘Dead Zones’ Multiplying Fast

A global map of “dead zones”—where coastal waters contain too little oxygen to sustain life—shows (as black dots) a concentration in the Northern Hemisphere, where human activity has had the most effect.As of August 2008, there were more than 400 known “dead zones,” scientists said, up from just over 300 in the 1990s. Image courtesy [...] continue reading latest news