Dutch Club to Recycle Dancers' Energy

"Wind power is great. But what about all that energy you expend on the dance floor on Saturday night? A next-generation nightclub wants to use that energy to keep the strobes lit and the bass bumping.""Soon you can...

Bangladesh: 230,000 Homes have Solar Now; 1 Million by 2012

"DHAKA: Millions in Bangladesh are taking to solar power to light up their homes at night.Officials said, over 230,000 rural households in Bangladesh have been brought under the solar power system in last five years...

Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU

"A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. Dwarfed by any...

Lighter Side of Life: The One-Pupil School

A few months back when a friend of mine who's a school teacher told me that there was a Mandarin-based primary school in upstate Malaysia with only one student -- I brushed it off...

Scientists Closer To Developing Invisibility Cloak

In something that sounds like it should be on the Sci-Fi channel, scientists say that they are near their goal of developing materials to make people and objects invisible. The scientists are from the University of...

The Invisible Man. A scientific breakthrough

"Today, your eyes might not deceive you. But soon, they very well might.Some extremely clever people at Cal (the one at Berkeley) have created a material that can control the direction in which visible light travels."

Invisibility cloak one step closer

Remember watching Star Trek and thinking to yourself, "Dang, those Romulans have it all, with their invisible ships, pointy eyebrows, and astonishingly triangular hairlines?"It looks like we humans are one step...

Who Will Light the Olympic Flame?

"As the most controversial torch relay in Olympic history comes to an end, folks here wonder: Who will light China's fire? Guessing the person who will light the huge flame inside the National Stadium has become the...

Hamdan gets 5 1/2 years on terror charge

I was very suprised by the sentence that was given to Hamdan in light of the way other terror suspects have been treated. Hoever, I cannot say that I disagree with the sentence, if he is indeed telling the truth then...

Blink and you'll miss it!!! Why? because...

"Blink and you'll miss it!!! Why? because... Options   Edit Add to group Delete Viewable by anyone ...

NASA spies liquid in Titanic lake

"NASA scientists have announced that at least one of the giant lakes previously spied on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons - making it the "only body our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid...

Canada's spreading cannabis crop

"Canada's spreading cannabis crop In the first of two pieces on organised crime accompanying his Radio 4 series How crime took...

China on the lookout for earthquakes during Beijing Olympics

The memories of the horrendous earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province on May 12th of this year, claiming the lives of nearly seventy thousand people and leaving anywhere between five to eleven million people...

Anstey Methodist Church

"Jesus very often, if not always, demonstrated the significance of his words by the miracles that he performed. For example, his claim to be the bread of life was amply demonstrated by his feeding of the great multitude with just a few loaves and fishes. His claim to be the...

New York Times Op-Ed: Israel Will Attack Iran

"Yes, you read my title correctly. Today's New York Times includes an op-ed piece by Benny Morris, a Professor of Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. He claims Israel will most certainly attack Iran...

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