Russian Expert Says Bird Flu May Come to U.S. SoonThe deadly bird flu virus, which has hit Asia, Europe and Africa, may spread to the United States late this year and risks mutating dangerously there, Russia’s top animal and plant health inspector told Reuters.
“We think that H5N1 (strain of bird flu virus) will reach the United States in autumn,” Sergei Dankvert said in an interview.
“This is very realistic. We may be almost certain this will happen after this strain is found in Great Brita... (more)
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Pentagon's new weapon - cyborg flies that are spiesThe Pentagon is trying to develop "insect cyborgs" able to sniff out explosives, or "bug" conversations by lurking unseen in enemy hideouts with micro-transmitters strapped to their bodies.
The cyborgs - half insect, half robot - would be created by inserting tiny devices into the bodies of flying, hopping or crawling insects while in their larva or pupa stage, so that the mechanisms become part of their bodies and ultimately allow them to be moved by remote control.
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MySpace Is The Trojan Horse Of Internet Censorship: Media elite's last gasp effort to save crumbling empireMySpace isn't cool, it isn't hip and it isn't trendy. It represents a cyber trojan horse and the media elite's last gasp effort to reclaim control of the Internet and sink it with a stranglehold of regulation, control and censorship.
Since Rupert Murdoch's $580 Million acquisition of MySpace in July 2005, it has come from total obscurity to now being the 8th most visited website in the world, receiving half as many page hits as Google, despite the fact that on first appearance it ... (more)
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Human medical experiments go terribly wrong in "nightmare" TGN1412 drug trial"We told ya so" just doesn't cut it. Barely ten days after Truth Publishing warned the public about the dangers of medical experimentation on humans, a disastrous pharmaceutical experiment has left six men fighting for their lives.
The scene was a living medical hell, say witnesses. After being injected with the anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412, patients began tearing their shirts off, screaming that their heads were going to explode. One patient's head swelled to triple its normal ... (more)
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Tolls may slow Web trafficThe possibility of a future two-tiered Internet threatens today's notion of free travel on the information superhighway.
For now, the Internet is a superhighway open to all. Information is delivered quickly via phone lines and cable to homes and businesses worldwide. But for online businesses, the express-lane ride may be over. As the Internet matures, new bandwidth-gobbling online television channels and phone services may soon be charged to access the superhighway. That could tu... (more)
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Russian Scientist Blames Global Warming on Tunguska MeteoriteA new theory to explain global warming was revealed at a meeting at the UK University of Leicester. The controversial theory has nothing to do with burning fossil fuels and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels but blames the warming on the Tunguska Event of 1908 that happened in a remote part of Siberia, the Science Blog reported Wednesday.
According to Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the global warming of the past 100 years could be due to atmospheric changes ... (more)
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US Military Plans To Make Insect CyborgsFacing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, the U.S. military now wants to develop "insect cyborgs" that can go where its soldiers cannot.
The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their handlers.
In an announcement posted on government Web sites las... (more)
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Russian babies fall victims to bio experiments Baby food manufacturers conduct cynical experiments on Russian newborns.
Scientists tested samples of the most popular brands of baby foods sold in Russian supermarkets. Results turned out to be absolutely shocking: 70% of samples contained genetically modified organisms (GMO). Some of the dairy and vegetable mixes were fully made of GMO!
Almost every package contains the phrase “Contains no artificial preservatives.” Ecologists however decided to test ... (more)
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China's human ID program to drive major RFID adoptionLast year, more than 100 million tags were shipped to the country. But through 2009, the government's second-generation Resident ID Card program is expected to significantly accelerate the adoption of RFID, said In-Stat.
"With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Ministry of Public Security is one of the biggest RFID projects in the world," says In-Stat analyst Anty Zheng, in a statement.
More than one billion ID... (more)
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Pentagon eyeing weapons in spaceWASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is asking Congress for hundreds of millions of dollars to test weapons in space, marking the biggest step toward creating a space battlefield since President Reagan's long-defunct ''star wars" project during the Cold War, according to federal budget documents.
The Defense Department's budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 includes money for a variety of tests on offensive and defensive weapons, including a missile launched at a small satel... (more)
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ID card conundrumsYesterday I met a man born in 1360. Surprisingly, he was still fit and well.
No, the gentleman in question was not deluded, but neither is he 646 years old. He was, of course, counting using a different calendar. He was born in Iraq in 1360 according to the Islamic calendar, or 1941 to you and me.
While Western dates are counted from the birth of Christ, the Islamic calendar naturally proceeds from a different year zero - the Hijra, the passage of the Prophet Mohamm... (more)
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British Rail's fusion flying saucer that never arrived British Rail planned to transport passengers across space in a nuclear-powered flying saucer, it emerged yesterday.
In 1970, rail managers envisioned a "Space Vehicle" which would be economical to run and reach high speeds in space.
The idea, mooted by inventor Charles Osmond Frederick, was unearthed by a student browsing the European Patent Office website.
The patent describes how the ship would have been fired by a controlled thermonuclear fusion r... (more)
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Alabama cow tests positive for mad cow disease“We received a positive result on a Western blot confirmatory test conducted at the USDA laboratories in Ames , Iowa , on samples from an animal that had tested “inconclusive” on a rapid screening test performed on Friday, March 10.
“The samples were taken from a non-ambulatory animal on a farm in Alabama . A local private veterinarian euthanized and sampled the animal and sent the samples for further testing, which was conducted at one of our contract diag... (more)
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GM Crops Out of Control: Report shows cross contamination and illegal planting as crucial failuresIt's been 10 years since commercial Genetically Modified (GM) crops were first introduced on a large scale in 1996. So what has been their effect? A report released this month by Greenpeace and GeneWatch U.K., titled "GM Contamination Report 2005" shows disturbing results.
Those who were skeptical about allowing GM crops to be commercially grown may now be witnessing the first realizations of their concerns. The report reveals 113 cases in which supposedly controlled GM crops have... (more)
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Cornell U. Prof: Media Changes Perceptions of Engineered CropsIthaca, N.Y. - About 60 percent of food products found on U.S. shelves contain some form of genetically engineered crop. Yet, a recent study on the public's attitude toward agricultural biotechnology by Cornell University's Prof. James Shanahan, communication, and John Besley grad determined Americans have yet to reach a consensus as to how they feel about consuming these genetically altered products.
The study was based on data collected by Cornell's Survey Research Institute and... (more)
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Supervisors support bioengineered cropsSan Joaquin County officials hardly made a big deal two weeks ago when supervisors voted to support farmers who grow genetically engineered crops.
The county became the 12th in the state to pass such a resolution, which espouses the potential for engineering research to find cures for diseases and the promise of engineered food to be healthier for Americans than organic crops.
Not all believe that biotechnology, and its agricultural application in genetically engine... (more)
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Contamination Report Reveals Worldwide Illegal Spread of Genetically Engineered Crops The first report into the extent to which genetically engineered organisms have 'leaked' into the environment - released today - reveals a disturbing picture of widespread contamination, illegal planting and negative agricultural side effects.
The report is a summary of incidents uncovered by the on-line Contamination Register (1) set up by Greenpeace and GeneWatch UK. It reveals a catalogue of highly disturbing incidents right across the world, including:
- Pork m... (more)
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Brave New Skies: Is the Government trying to control the weather? The powers that be want to own and control everything under the sun these days. Consider the fact that Monsanto currently brandishes a patent on what they call “Terminator technology,” which forces farmers to actually buy the next growing season’s supply of seeds from the company, instead of using ones from the plants they cultivate.
It appears that the earth’s weather, too, is up for grabs. While such a prospect may seem impossible if not absurd to most o... (more)
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'Mental typewriter' controlled by thought aloneA computer controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated at a major trade fair in Germany.
The device could provide a way for paralysed patients to operate computers, or for amputees to operate electronically controlled artificial limbs. But it also has non-medical applications, such as in the computer games and entertainment industries.
The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI) – dubbed the "mental typewriter" – was created by research... (more)
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Liquid water on Saturn moon could support lifeScientists have found evidence that cold, Yellowstone-like geysers of water are issuing from a moon of Saturn called Enceladus, apparently fueled by liquid reservoirs that may lie just tens of yards beneath the moon's icy surface.
The surprising discovery, detailed in Friday's issue of the journal Science, could shoot Enceladus to the top of the list in the search for life elsewhere in our solar system. Scientists described it as the most important discovery in planetary science i... (more)
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Science moves on from dog cloneSnuppy, the cloned dog created by disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, has been formally confirmed as an authentic genetic copy.
The journal Nature has released details of an independent analysis showing the Afghan hound is a genuine clone.
The check was ordered following allegations that Hwang's landmark studies on human cloning were faked.
The fall-out from the case means future, high-profile scientific claims will be subjected to greater... (more)
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Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in LabScientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.
This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.
They don't know how they did it.
The feat was accomplished in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories.
"At first, we were disbelieving," sa... (more)
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Mice with glowing hearts shed light on how hearts developThis series reveals increases in cell calcium from a mouse embryo's upper heart through the lower heart on day 10 of development. Cell calcium rises when muscles contract. The bottom row shows a dramatic slowing of the conducted calcium wave between the upper and lower heart chambers.
There is the heart of gold, and then there is the heart that glows. Literally.
Cornell researchers have genetically engineered mice whose hearts glow with a green light every ti... (more)
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Bird Flu Virus May Infect One Third of World’s Population — Russian ExpertOne-third of the world’s population might become infected with bird flu in a short period of time, Director of the Russian Academy of Science’s Virology Research Institute Dmitry Lvov said, according to Interfax.
“Any pandemic (flu) virus appears as a result of crossing between a human virus and a bird virus. A highly pathogenic monster emerges and it can affect up to one-third of the world’s population in a short period of time,” he said.
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New rolling surveillance robot from HitachiIt's not quite the most exciting robot we've seen recently, but Hitachi has a new surveillance bot in the works that rolls around obstacles and, um, surveys stuff with its camera. Yeah, not exactly your latest kickin'-a-pink-ball-humanoid, but at least this boringbot might actually serve a useful purpose.
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Billion Bucks for Space Weaponry?Most of the programs aren't space weapons themselves; they're more like building blocks, which could be used in orbit for many things, including weaponry. But still, it's pretty stunning to read that money for these potential "dual-use" space projects tops a billion dollars in the Pentagon's latest budget request. That's a $700 million increase from last year, according to a new study from the Center for Defense Information and the Henry... (more)
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