Dorothy Lee and her husband of 40 years were driving home from a Bible study group one wintry night when their car suddenly hit the curb. Mrs. Lee looked at her husband, who was driving, and saw his head bob a couple of times…
Read Full ArticleGoogle leaps language barrier with translator phone
GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic…
Read Full ArticleWater Freezes When Heated
Usually water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures below that. But now scientists – reporting today in the journal Science — have found a way to keep water in a liquid form at -40 degrees F. What’s more, the scientists have found another…
Read Full ArticleElectric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane: Scientific American
A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft design, NASA’s experimental one-man Puffin could show just how much electric propulsion can transform our ideas of flight. It looks like nothing less than a flying suit or a jet pack with a cockpit. On the ground, the Puffin is…
Read Full ArticleGreen Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and…
Read Full ArticleAlcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development
The new substance could have the added bonus of being “switched off” instantaneously with a pill, to allow drinkers to drive home or return to work. The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to Valium, works like alcohol on nerves in the brain…
Read Full ArticleSoviet Scientist Turns Foxes Into Puppies
Aww, aren’t those puppies cute? Those aren’t dogs. They’re foxes, believe it or not. In the 1950s, Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev set out to breed a tamer fox that would be easier for their handlers in the Russian fur industry to work with. The…
Read Full ArticlePizza Hut cheese is not just cheese, its silicone!
Pizza Hut cheese is not just cheese, its silicone! In this issue, writer John Bunting details how Pizza Huts cheese supplier Leprino Foods uses a silicone-based industrial chemical in the patented manufacturing of Pizza Cheese That chemical Polymethylsiloxane has no FDA approval for use…
Read Full ArticleScientific Link to Autism Identified
During its research into the application of neuroscience in business, a New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes®, LLC (The Center) made an inadvertent and amazing discovery. According to The Center’s founder, William McFaul, a retired business person and not…
Read Full ArticleSplitting Time from Space – New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein’s Spacetime
Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity. Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades. In contrast, the…
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