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Mary Dejevsky: Why not call Blair now and wrap up the affair?

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...

Naked Scanners on Trial at Manchester Airport

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...

Through-the-Wall Surveillance Technology - Part 1

“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...

ZAP! Have You Been Targeted by a 'Directed Energy Weapon'? Victims of Organi...

• 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...

Boy Healthy after Doctors Remove Key Lodged in Brain

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...

Chandrayaan-1 gets back to work

" 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,...

Black Silicon Generates Hundreds of Times More Solar Power

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...

Humble sticky tape emits powerful X-rays

"Peeling ordinary sticky tape can generate bursts of X-rays intense enough to produce an image of the bones in your fingers."

Revealed: a previously unknown van Gogh

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...

Apples Beat Pears Due to Better Circulation

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...

Pokhara - 64 HIV/AIDS patients die, 900 undergoing treatment in Pokhara Hospital

"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...

Microsoft software brings universe down to Earth!

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...

'Super' scanner shows key detail

"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...

Brukers opens Chinese applications and training center in Beijing

"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...

Airports get hi-tech X-ray machines

"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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