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oh yer heres some thing that put you of your fizzy drinks that they have the same pH as sulphuric acid so remember to brush your teeth!
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Heres something cool...
 You won't catch these guys putting Fizzies in their bottled Water either. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253810,00.html |
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Sekerob
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Not Weird, Certainly Cool, but most Definitely Amazing:
----------------------------------------CSMastermind writes: "CNN is reporting on a breakthrough technology. A startup called Powercast has developed and patented a device, the size of a dime and costing 5$ to make, which allows power to be transmitted wirelessly . The device has already gained FCC approval and the company has inked deals with the likes of Phillips. From the article: 'Powercast says it has signed nondisclosure agreements to develop products with more than 100 companies, including major manufacturers of cell phones, MP3 players, automotive parts, temperature sensors, hearing aids, and medical implants. The last of those alone could be a multibillion-dollar market: Pacemakers, defibrillators, and the like require surgery to replace dead batteries. But with a built-in Powercast receiver, those batteries could last a lifetime. '"
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Portable solar cell phone charger:
http://www.solio.com/v2/ (No I'm not affiliated with Solio  - found it in a magazine and thought it was cool) |
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Scientists Retrieve Proteins From Dinosaur Bone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/science/12c...=1&hp&oref=slogin The extraction of DNA would be necessary for studies in dinosaur genetics and for cloning experiments. Jurassic Park coming soon? |
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IBM Researchers Demonstrate World's Fastest Optical Chipset:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21278.wss The transceiver is fast enough to reduce the download time for a typical high definition feature-length film to a single second compared to 30 minutes or more. |
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Sekerob
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Now the 65,000 dollar question: Who came first... Lex Luthor or Superman?
----------------------------------------Kryptonite discovered in Serbian Mine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6584229.stm And to x-reference to the Greenies thread: ""It contains boron and lithium - two valuable elements with many applications, he explained. Borosilicate glasses are used to encapsulate processed radioactive waste, and lithium is used in batteries and in the pharmaceutical industries.""
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The universe is a string-net liquid:
http://space.newscientist.com/channel/astronomy/cosmology/mg19325954.200 This led Wen and Levin to the idea that there may be a different way of thinking about matter. What if electrons were not really elementary, but were formed at the ends of long "strings" of other, fundamental particles? They formulated a model in which such strings are free to move "like noodles in a soup" and weave together into huge "string-nets". "Suddenly we realised, maybe the vacuum of our whole universe is a string-net liquid," says Wen. |
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Diana G.
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The universe is a string-net liquid: http://space.newscientist.com/channel/astronomy/cosmology/mg19325954.200 This led Wen and Levin to the idea that there may be a different way of thinking about matter. What if electrons were not really elementary, but were formed at the ends of long "strings" of other, fundamental particles? They formulated a model in which such strings are free to move "like noodles in a soup" and weave together into huge "string-nets". "Suddenly we realised, maybe the vacuum of our whole universe is a string-net liquid," says Wen. Wow...that is really really cool!!!! Thank you so much esoteric17  Diana G.  |
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Superheavy Element "Ununbium" Has Ordinary Chemistry:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=4E...6D093908&chanID=sa003 Study identifies gene linked to longer lifespan: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=study-...=sa003&modsrc=reuters |
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