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Judge sends evolution lawsuit to trial
(CNN) A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against a school district's practice of posting disclaimers inside science textbooks saying evolution is "a theory, not a fact."
Submitted on Apr 6, 2004 by tormod
NASA developes Biological signal readers (Mind Reader) computer program
(New Scientist) NASA is working on a computer program which will silently read your nerve signals ( In a way it will read your mind). It will recognise nerve signals and patterns from the tongue and vocal cords that is related to some word.
Submitted on Mar 24, 2004 by alps
MP3 protection soon, Music is not a free fun
(New Scientist) MP3 file format, one of the widely used file format for listening music. User will have to pay for it soon as it will be protected soon. Time will say how protection will stop making free fun of music.
Submitted on Mar 3, 2004 by alps
Celebrating 100 years of flight
(NASA) NASA has put together a great collection of articles and multimedia features on the 100th anniversary of the first flight. Great stuff!
Submitted on Dec 17, 2003 by tormod
Chemistry Could Save Chinese Terracotta Army
(Scientific American) In 1974, archaeologists came across a vast army of terracotta soliders numbering in the thousands in Lintong, China. So far, more than 1,500 life-size warriors have been excavated. But once the figures are removed from the pits, their pigment fades--a problem that established methods of stabilization have failed to address.
Submitted on Nov 27, 2003 by tormod
US backs nuclear fusion over particle smashing
(New Scientist) Making clean energy by nuclear fusion and building supercomputers to speed up scientific research are the top priorities in physical science, according to a new US Department of Energy road map.
Submitted on Nov 11, 2003 by Noah
What happens when science turns suspect?
(Popular Science) Cancer researcher Kenneth Pienta was flipping through a paper written by a promising young postdoc in his University of Michigan laboratory when he spotted something that made his stomach sink: two protein blots that looked remarkably similar.
Submitted on Oct 23, 2003 by tormod
Chemistry Nobel rewards crucial cell membrane work
(New Scientist) For solving the mystery of how water and salts get in and out of living cells, two Americans have shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Submitted on Oct 8, 2003 by tormod
'Pristine' Amazon boasted large cities
(CNN) Brazil's northern Amazon region, once thought to have been pristine until modern development began encroaching, actually hosted sophisticated networks of towns and villages hundreds of years ago, according to a new report.
Submitted on Sep 20, 2003 by Noah
'Roman cosmetics' found at ancient dig
(CNN) Archaeologists excavating the site of a major Roman temple in London have found a sealed box containing a white cream still bearing the fingermarks of the person who last used it, nearly 2,000 years ago.
Submitted on Jul 28, 2003 by tormod
