Fingerprints are Forever: Forensic Watershed

British scientists have figured out how to "lift" fingerprints from metal, even after the metal has been cleaned. Or scrubbed. Or painted over.I bet that as you read the article below you will unconsciously rub...

Smell this: phone company tests scent downloads

A Japanese telecommunications company is testing a cell phone that can download and emit various scents by mixing "base smells" into a desired fragrance. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer fresh flowers to Glade...

Hewlett Packard Starts Manufacturing Cartridges From Recycled Plastics

Hewlet Packard, the printer company, has started to manufacture its cartridges from fully recycled old cartridges and water bottles. The technology enabling it is called the ‘closed loops plastic recycling system’ and the eco-friendly cartridges are not any pricier. A...

Suicide note by Finland gunman found

An update to yesterday's story. The fact he shot each victim several times is particularly chilling."Police in Finland have found a suicide note written by an 18-year-old student shortly before he went on a gun rampage at his school and killed eight people.""Pekka-Eric...

Mikhail Kalashnikov

In October 1941 he was seriously wounded in the violent battle of Bryansk. While in hospital, Kalashnikov conceived the idea of a submachine gun.

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