An experimental helmet is currently being tested by scientists as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It delivers low levels of infra-red light which may stimulate the growth of brain cells. Researchers at the University of Sunderland, first developed the infra-red therapy to treat cold sores, but as the looked deeper into how it worked [...]
Plans to build one of Europe’s biggest wind farms on the Isle of Lewis are set to be turned down due to selfish and shortsighted protesters. Radio nan Gaidheal, has learned that Scottish Government ministers are “minded to refuse” the 181 turbine scheme. More than 5,000 letters of objection to the proposals were received by [...]
ISPs are set on a course to become content police, warns Internet law professor Michael Geist. He told the BBC News website: “In recent months, a new strategy has begun to emerge. With the industry gradually admitting that locking down content does not work, it has now dangerously shifted toward locking down the Internet. The [...]
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The secrets of bird flight have been revealed. Scientists at the Flight Laboratory at the University of Montana have been busy studying the angle at which birds flap their wings. A study published in the journal Nature now suggests that it is the angle at which a bird [...]
Virgin have unveiled the new Space Ship Two, and isn’t it gorgeous! Nice design. Burt Rutan’s influence can clearly be seen, I’ve always liked the way he designed his planes, having little or no regard for convention - brilliant stuff.
“2008 really will be the Year of the Spaceship.” — Richard Branson.
At the NYC Unveiling Event [...]
I stumbled across a brilliant website called ‘Love Earth’, a resource about the natural world. It appears to be based around a BBC World Documentary/Movie called ‘Earth’ (2007). I didn’t spend a lot of time exploring it, not yet, although I will, but everything I looked at was extremely interesting and informative and the photography [...]
Freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments: Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Bear in mind that implementation remains lacking in many countries (not pointing any elbows). I start off with this paragraph because it seems [...]
The iStone
This is a small post about why the iPhone is a rip off. In fact, it’s more than a rip off: it’s an indefensible joke. Here are more than 20 issues with the most hyped up piece of plastic ever to be released. It’s just so blatantly useless, I’m calling it the iStone. [...]
As I write this posting in my blog (On Monday, the 14th of January although I’m already in the 15th here) a pioneering NASA spacecraft is drifting through the gulf of space towards Mercury - 1st rock from the sun. This probe will be the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years! According to [...]
Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits — in less than 40 million years — it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
“The leading edge of this cloud is already interacting with gas [...]
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