French Trains – Classy Comfort, Chic and Smart, Speed and Space.

You have to hand it to them. When the French decide to ally elegance and ergonomics the results are often impressive to say the least. First, here are a couple of figures. The rail network in France is extremely...

Soon, a neighbourhood watch to detect and report Internet network problems

Researchers at McCormick School say they have devised a way to detect and report Internet network problems, by using crowd sourcing network monitoring."Washington, November 25 : Researchers at the McCormick School...

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report

NIST has released its Final Report on WTC 7 and maintains that the 47 story, redundant steel-framed and concrete structure completely collapsed due to office fires causing "thermal expansion" causing the failure of Column 79. Videos of WTC 7 collapsing show what appears to be...

German Economy Enters Worst Recession in 12 Years

European stock markets are panicing today as investors learn that Germany, Europe's largest economy, has officially fallen into recession. In morning trading Britain's FTSE 100 was down about 1.3 percent and the...

University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer

Finally some good news..."A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering to...

Kashmir gets its first train service with opening of 41 miles of new line

The first phase of India’s most ambitious railway project since independence has become operational. Although this phase does not yet link the Kashmir Valley to the main Indian Railways network, the...

3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Inn...

Coming soon to your living room; full immersion "virtual reality" extreme sports, action, romance, horror, scifi and shopping"The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens...

Car Bomb Kills 12 in Algeria

12 Algerian employees of Canadian construction and engineering company, SNC-Lavalin Group, were killed Wednesday after a car bomb exploded near a water treatment facility in Algeria.  The explosion is being investigated by local authorities and the company. "A car...

Megawaste to megawatts

Anaerobic digesters have been on the backburner essentially because of their reliance on animal slurry that has had urban communities turning their nose up at the idea even though welcoming it in principle....

Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality

"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. The technology, called light-emitting...

Whales and dolphins influence new wind turbine design

" Sea creatures have evolved over millions of years to maximise efficiency of movement through water; humans have been trying to perfect streamlined designs for barely a century. So shouldn't we be taking more...

Researcher Easily Steals Thousands of Identities

Sometimes security begins at the most simple level."A researcher performing social engineering exploits on behalf of several U.S. banks and other firms in the past year has “stolen” thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. Joshua Perrymon, hacking...

Danger In The Sky - The Chemtrail Phenomenon

" Danger In The Sky - The Chemtrail Phenomenon You Tube Tuesday, June 17, 2008   The largest coordinated global engineering project in the history of our species. People across the world are noticing...

14 Things that Microsoft Needs to Do with Windows 7

"Microsoft made no secret out of having, for some time now, been cooking the next iteration of Windows, a translucent development process with very little transparent areas including details such as multi-touch, support for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and the evolution...

Founder of sports car firm dies

Great Great British cars. I like how the name came from the founder Trevor." Founder of sports car firm dies TVR went into administration in December 2006 The founder...

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