Archive for March, 2009

Nop I am not joking, travellers in the United State now have to go through a whole body scanner at the airport security that litterly reveals their underwear. The new technology was developed by New York based L3 Communications, and definitely raised the question of people’s privacy after it was revealed that underwear is visible in the scans. The Transportation and Security Administration has [...]

Traffic jams are big hassle for many drivers around the U.S. It’s frustrating, tiring and time consuming especially in large cities such as Long Beach, California or downtown Chicago. These reasons made engineers who dreamed for a long time to manufacture flying cars, to intense their research and develop this revolutionary flying car. It was tested last week and the pilot flew for few miles before [...]

Scientists for many years were inspired by human skin and tissues when repair itself when damaged. It’s the scientists dream to invent a product that could be applied on exposed things to protect them form scratches and blemishes. There are some of these products in the market, but it is very complex and expensive. Recently, scientist at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg led by [...]

Discovery is set to liftoff at 7:43 p.m. EDT on the STS-119 mission to the International Space Station NASA officials announced yesterday that they are preparing for launch this Sunday at 7:43p.m, after it was postponed on Wednesday. The shuttle’s launch was postponed because NASA engineers discovered gaseous hydrogen leak in the venting system outside the external fuel tank. According to NASA’s [...]

Under the fuel through artificial photosynthesis scenario, nanotubes embedded within a membrane would act like green leaves, using incident solar radiation (Hγ) to split water molecules (H2O), freeing up electrons and oxygen (O2) that then react with carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce a fuel, shown here as methanol (CH3OH). The result is a renewable green energy source that also helps scrub the atmosphere [...]

Apple just released the smallest MP3 player ever . It measures 1,8″x0.3″, about the same size as an AA battery. Shuffls don’t have display screen thats why they are tiny, but the new iPod Shuffle has a new feature called ” VoiceOver” which announces the songs to users in 14 different languages. It also help the user to navigate around their song lists. The iPod is 4GB [...]

A young Asian elephant named “Mosha” lost her right leg when she was only 7 moths old after she stepped on a landmine. She was brought to the hospital in Lampang, Thailand and was fitted with a prosthetics limb to help her walk and get her life back in the jungle. Mosha has bacome the first elephant in the world to be fitted with a prosthetic leg in 2007. Watch the video of Mosha trying [...]

Doctors were able to reimplant Heather McNamara's liver and large and small intestines. Doctors temporarily removed 6 organs from a seven-year-old Heather McNamara digestive tract to allow removal of a tennis ball-size tumor. The surgery is referred to as an “auto-transplantation” because the patient’s own organs (instead of those from a donor) were reimplanted within four hours [...]