No men Or women needed - making babies

" Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to...

Japanese Scientists Grow Teeth In Mice

Scientists in Japan have managed to grow fully functional teeth in mice using stem cells, and are hopeful the same technique can be used to grow human organs in the future. The researchers created a seed...

A piece of lunar history lies in India

"A piece of lunar history lies in India" "As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, few know about the role played by Indian scientists. The first men on the moon— Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin— collected 21.7 kg of rock...

Canadian astronaut Payette to go to space station Saturday

" Payette, 45, and her team are headed for a 16-day mission focusing mostly on construction. The crew will complete the assembly of the $1-billion U.S. Japanese Kibo science laboratory aboard the orbiting...

NY Philharmonic to Perform 13-Year-Old's Composition

George Frankle could well be a mini-Mozart in the making, but he has yet to decide if music is even his calling. The lucky 13-year-old will have his short composition "Laboratory" performed by the New York...

NASA Successfully Tests ‘Interplanetary Internet’

" Although the crew of the spacecraft Endeavour experienced a glitch in the first space walk when an astronaut accidentally let her tool bag float away, NASA had a lot to celebrate as it announced success with a high-tech space program. NASA, along with Vinton Cerf, a...

Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover

A dust storm on Mars has cut into the amount of sunlight reaching the solar array on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, leaving the rover in a vulnerable state.Spirit's solar array produced only 89 watt hours...

Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter

"Mission managers said Monday that they had not heard from the NASA spacecraft for a week and that they thought it had probably fallen quiet for good.“At this time, we’re pretty convinced that the vehicle is...

Shell Oil Company achieves 376.59 mpg in test car- 1973!

"Indianapolis (IN) - Using fully stock production gasoline engine powered vehicles, with engine modifications limited only to changes in fuel mixture and ignition timing, Shell Oil Company served host to an open...

Babies boost mothers' intelligence

Contrary to previous studies pregnant women gets their brains rewired to cope with motherhood — and their intelligence soars when the tots are born. Tests on rats showed mums become braver and faster at finding food. And the increased ability could curb...

CERN unveils computer grid linking 7,000 scientists

Serious number crunching to be a co-CERN project !Grid computing is changing science the world over."CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the...

Sysadmin Steals Nearly 20,000 Pieces Of Computer Gear from Navy

If you steal from the navy, can you call it "piracy"? Even if it's on dry land? This is not a rhetorical question, since a sysadmin for the US Naval Research Laboratory has just pled guilty to ripping off nearly...

Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record At 40.8 Percent

It's an "inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell". Advances in solar are going the way of computer processor speed and storage and many other information technologies; increasing power, speed and efficiency, decreasing cost, space, waste.Solar Power to Rule in 20...

"Restaurant of the Future" is measuring what you eat

I have always wondered about marketing schemes and whether periwinkle vs. robin's egg blue really will make a difference to my purchasing decisions. I'm not alone when it comes to these musings as Waginegen...

NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun

"MEDIA ADVISORY : M08-176  NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun ...

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