Sometimes I love to read the independent because the reporters always present good quality articles. Mary Dejevsky approach to the Iraq inquiry gives such depth on the actual equiry its self it reads like a...
Do you get weary of having to remove your jacket and shoes while going through security at the airport? Or getting the pat down? How about the new alternative, showing all your naked glory to airport security...
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.“ - Galileo Galilei How do you feel about your right to privacy? Suppose your neighbor possessed technology capable of remotely recording detailed images of...
Nicholas Holderman of Perryville, Kentucky is lucky to be alive. The toddler accidentally fell on his parents' keys while playing, with one penetrating his brain. "Nothing can prepare you for something...
" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,...
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New breakthrough type of silicon "generates hundreds of times more current than conventional silicon"; potential uses include x-rays, night vision, digital photography, in vitro imaging, infrared detectors, etc. More environmentally friendly and cheaper than current...
Vincent van Gogh is perhaps one of the best known of the post-impressionist painters. The later years of his life were his most prolific, but the total number of his known works has just increased by one, as...
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• GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONFIRM SUCH WEAPONS EXIST, BECOMING STANDARD ISSUE IN WARFARE AND POLICE WORK• ALLEGED VICTIMS TO CONGRESS: PROBE 'DEW' ABUSE• A NEW PERSONAL PLEA FROM VIC LIVINGSTON: "THIS IS...
Thanks to science, we now know why apples stay fresh longer than pears. "It is all to do with how oxygen is able to find its way to the centre of the fruit after it has been picked. Belgian researchers used one...
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"Pokhara, May 30: Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara, has said 64 HIV/AIDS patients have died while undergoing treatment in the hospital so far. The hospital also said 900 HIV-infected patients are undergoing treatment in the hospital at present. Dr Basanta Tamrakar revealed...
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Microsoft wants to maketravelling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on yourcomputer." The world's largest software maker launched a free softwareapplication called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that...
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"A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by some 80%.
The new CT machine takes large numbers of X-ray pictures, and combines them using computer technology to produce the final detailed images.
It also...
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"The new demonstration and training facility includes sample preparation areas and laboratory space equipped with the very latest systems from each of the Bruker companies, including
-- a Bruker BioSpin 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer,
-- a Bruker...
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"A new X-ray screening machine that can automatically detect explosives and liquids in passengers' hand luggage is to be introduced at the UK's main airports, it has been announced.
In a 10-year deal worth at least £20 million, BAA is replacing all existing X-ray screening...
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