Four Charged in US 'Final Exit Network' Assisted-Suicide Group

Four people have been charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in connection with an assisted-suicide group by the name of Final Exit Network.  The group reportedly helped a man end his life by inhaling helium, and eight other states are also investigating the...

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...

Invisible water

"How does that happen? You have probably heard of the gas Helium which is lighter than air, well that glass container is filled with a gas called Sulfur hexafluoride. Sulfur hexafluoride is a colorless, odorless gas which is heavier than air. Because it is so dense you can...

Calling All Citizen Journalists

If you had the time, you could write thousands of eye-opening money-and-politics stories using the information that lives on OpenSecrets.org. And many professional journalists do just that -- CRP was cited in the news more than 3,000 times last year. But why leave...

A 193-Mile Flight in a Lawn Chair

Oregonian Kent Couch made his own aircraft -- out of a lawn chair, 105 helium balloons, a GPS system and a parachute. He brought snacks, too. His flight lasted nine hours, and he touched down in a field just near Idaho. American ingenuity at work!""When you're a little kid...

Helium For Health

"It helps you you with smokers cough and you get to sound like Donald Duck Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that by combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen allowed patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to...