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Comfortable, all-terrain and safe. A four-wheel drive wheelchair with hybrid motor and electronic assistance system helps the physically disabled live more independent lives. The innovative system even checks pulse rate and blood values and calls for help in emergencies. Read the rest of this entry »

He was just a graduate student working hard to complete his dissertation for his doctorate degree. He wasn’t out to change the world or be famous. All he wanted to do was finish school, get a job and start a family. But because of the choices Arthur Wahl made one day in February 1941, he impacted the way all humans would eventually think about life on earth and he changed the world forever. Read the rest of this entry »

The study says that two or three-year-old children belong to a specific age group known for extreme aggressiveness, fierceness, and cruelty. Read the rest of this entry »

TOKYO (Reuters) - A million-year-old ice sample drilled from 3 kilometres under the Antarctic and unveiled in Tokyo on Tuesday could yield vital clues on climate change, Japanese scientists said. Read the rest of this entry »

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No bigger than a pen, this device filters smallpox, Ebola and other viruses from the blood. It is a prospect that terrifies bioweapons experts: Terrorists release smallpox into an American city, spreading sickness and panic. Because the disease is untreatable and vaccines no longer exist, first responders and other emergency personnel would be particularly vulnerable. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington, D.C. – The Earth could see massive waves of species extinctions around the world if global warming continues unabated, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Conservation Biology. Read the rest of this entry »

MIT scientists have just learned another lesson from nature.After years of wondering how organisms managed to create self-medications, such as anti-fungal agents, chemists have discovered the simple secret. Read the rest of this entry »

A chunk of ice dropped out of the sky and left a huge hole in the ground this weekend at Oakland’s Bushrod Park in California, and not even astronomy experts know where it came from. Read the rest of this entry »

NASA announced today it will send a rocket to crash into the moon, an early step to delivering the first astronauts to the planet since the last Apollo missions more than 30 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike landing gears that are retracted during a jet’s flight, some bees leave them down as they buzz along.Orchid bees swing their hind legs forward to reach top speed, a new study finds. The legs also generate lift, which keeps the bees balanced and helps prevent rolling. Read the rest of this entry »

PHARMACEUTICAL companies are systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm, a special edition of a leading medical journal claims today. Read the rest of this entry »

The extraordinary properties of spider’s thread are like a blessing for researchers working on polymers. However, the amazing twisting properties it displays are still not very well understood. How can one explain the fact that a spider suspended by a thread remains completely motionless, instead of rotating like a climber does at the end of a rope? Researchers at the Laboratoire de physique des lasers (CNRS/University of Rennes) have described the exceptional properties of this material which still has some secrets to reveal. The results will be published in Nature on 30 March 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

A digital music identification system that can search through 17 million songs in under 1 second has been launched in the US.MusicIP, based in California, US, announced last week that it had received a US patent for its method of automatically identifying, or “fingerprinting”, digital music files. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Google launched mobile ads in Japan, our first ads offering to mobile phone users. Now, when users in Japan search with Google on their mobile device, ads relevant to their search keywords will display on their result pages. Google mobile ads connect users who are actively looking for information with relevant and timely services and products. Read the rest of this entry »