Suicides 'linked to phone masts'THE spate of deaths among young people in Britain’s suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the victims’ homes.
Dr Roger Coghill, who sits on a Government advisory committee on mobile radiation, has discovered that all 22 youngsters who have killed themselves in Bridgend, South Wales, over the past 18 months lived far closer than average to a mast.
He has examined worldwide studies linking proximi... (more)
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Robots ready to support soldiers on the battlefieldAt a desert test site in Texas, a street battle rages between US soldiers and local "insurgents". It's much like any other training exercise, except the soldiers are accompanied by a Mule (Multifunctional utility/Logistics & Equipment), an armed robot the size of a Humvee. The insurgents are positioned overlooking an intersection, a potential kill zone. The commander pulls out what looks like a PlayStation gamepad and the Mule is sent forward.
It presents a tougher challenge than ... (more)
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New Fuel Cell System 'Generates Electricity with Only Water, Air'Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system "Water Energy System (WES)," which uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2.
The system can generate power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes, respectively, the company said at the press conference, which took place June 12, 2008, at the Osaka Assembly Hall.
The basic power generation mechanism of the new system is similar to that of a normal fuel cell, which use... (more)
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France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes ruleAnyone who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes France a pioneer in combating internet piracy.
“There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone,” President Sarkozy told his Cabinet yesterday as it endorsed the “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” scheme that from next January will hit illegal downloaders where it hurts.
Under a cross-indus... (more)
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Mind Control by Cell PhoneHospitals and airplanes ban the use of cell phones, because their electromagnetic transmissions can interfere with sensitive electrical devices. Could the brain also fall into that category? Of course, all our thoughts, sensations and actions arise from bioelectricity generated by neurons and transmitted through complex neural circuits inside ou... (more) Related: Are You a Manchurian Candidate? |
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SWAT Tech: New Radar/Antenna Combo Lets LA Cops 'See Through Walls'
"Most of the time when we do an entry, where we get shot and where the shootings occur is within in the first few seconds and it's at the door."
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Pesticides: Germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastationGermany has banned a family of pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees. The German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has suspended the registration for eight pesticide seed treatment products used in rapeseed oil and sweetcorn.
The move follows reports from German beekeepers in the Baden-Württemberg region that two thirds of their bees died earlier this month following the application of a pesticide called clothianidin.
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DARPA hands out cash for tiny bugbot-thopterFamed solar-plane company Aerovironment announced today that it has won further US military funding to carry on its Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) programme, which will develop a tiny "three-inch flapping-wing air vehicle system".
The money comes, of course, from DARPA - the Pentagon bureau which aims to get the bleeding edge to the sharp end. In this case the American war-boffins want tiny spy drones able to fly into buildings undetected, free of dependence on GPS coverage.
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Invasion of the 'crazy' ants that destroy every electronic gadget in their pathEnlarge the image
Nobody knows where they came from ... or even exactly what they are.
But, like the plot of a low-budget horror film, trillions of tiny 'crazy' ants are invading Texas.
They have a liking for computers, other electronics and most of the modern machinery that makes the world go round.
Not because they see them, or the associated wiring, as food. In a phenomenon baffling scientists, they simply seem to be attracted to the... (more)
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In lean times, biotech grains are less tabooSoaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods. Until now, to avoid consumer backlash, the companies have paid extra to buy conventionally grown corn. But with prices having tripled in... (more) How convenient... |
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The REAL brain drain: Modern technology - including violent video games - is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientistHuman identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis.
It is a crisis that would threaten long-held notions of who we are, what we do and how we behave. It goes right to the heart - or the head - of us all.
This crisis could reshape how we interact with each other, alter what makes us happy, and modify our capacity for reaching our full potential as individuals.
And it's caused by one simple fa... (more)
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Cyberwarfare: Darpa's New 'Space Race'The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, was created 50 years ago, in response to the Soviets' launch of Sputnik. In less than a year, Darpa put together the infrastructure that guided the American space effort for decades to come. Now, Darpa has been given new marching orders: to help America fight and win battles online.
Under a directive signed by the President -- and OK'd by Congress -- nearly every arm of the government's security apparatus is starting work on... (more)
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Robobug goes to war: Troops to use electronic insects to spot enemy 'by end of the year'Pictured: Plans for a robot that can crawl like a spider are 'well developed'
It may have seemed like just another improbable scene from a Hollywood sci-fi flick – Tom Cruise battling against an army of robotic spiders intent on hunting him down.
But the storyline from Minority Report may not be quite as far fetched as it sounds.
British defence giant BAE Systems is creating a series of tiny electronic spiders, insects and snakes that cou... (more)
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Exposed: the great GM crops mythMajor new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya p... (more)
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Scientists unlock frozen natural gasA methane hydrate mound sits on the sea floor off British Columbia, 850 metres below the surface.
A remote drilling rig high in the Mackenzie Delta has become the site of a breakthrough that could one day revolutionize the world's energy supply.
For the first time, Canadian and Japanese researchers have managed to efficiently produce a constant stream of natural gas from ice-like gas hydrates that, worldwide, dwarf all known fossil fuel deposits combined.... (more)
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DOE Testing Idea to Shoot Particles into Sky to Fight 'Global Warming'(CNSNews.com) - Government scientists are studying the feasibility of sending nearly microscopic particles of specially made glass into the Earth's upper atmosphere to try to dampen the effects of "global warming." The idea, while "interesting," said one leading global warming skeptic, is "not practical" and, if done a large scale, could depress the ozone layer and cause other problems.
Details from documents Cybercast News Service obtained under the Freedom of Information Act sho... (more)
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The World According to Monsanto
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gi... (more)
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Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America ‘Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [North}America’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize’.[1] This essay will dis... (more)
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Orgone warriorAUGUSTA, GA - If a hero is somebody who altruistically acts to eliminate a common danger, then Dwayne Dotson is definitely a hero.
He devotes his free time, and much of his money, to a workshop in National Hills where he toils on a project that some people would call crazy. He is undaunted. He is passionate. He is Augusta’s only orgone warrior.
Dotson makes “orgonite tower busters,” organic resin disks the size of hockey pucks that are filled with ... (more) These devices are not what Wilhelm himself made, interesting article none the less. |
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Swarms of Transformer-style robots to be builtA £4.6 million project to create swarms of hundreds of autonomous, Transformer-style robots has been launched.
Scientists aim to create a prototype team of self-organising, shape-changing mini robots that work as a team by 2013.
The self-healing robots will be able to dock with each other, share energy and co-operate to maximise their abilities to achieve different tasks.
Researchers from 10 universities who are collaborating in the European Uni... (more)
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Belarus says U.S. tested new space weapon MINSK, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Belarusian defense minister accused the United States on Thursday of using the destruction of a defunct NASA satellite to test a new space weapon.
An SM-3 missile fired at 3:26 a.m. GMT this morning from the USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, hit the bus-sized satellite about 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) above the ocean to the northwest of Hawaii.
"The cruiser that launc... (more)
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Consequences of GM crop contamination 'are set to worsen'The consequences of contamination between GM crops and non-GM varieties will be much more serious with the next generation of GM crops, an influential group of US scientists has warned.
Mixing between GM and non-GM varieties has already caused serious economic losses for producers in lost sales and exports. But the consequences of mixing will be much more serious with new crops that are altered to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, the scientists argue. The crops co... (more)
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Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'A study published in Science Magazine today presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product the Earth generates constantly rather than a "fossil fuel" derived from decaying ancient forests and dead dinosaurs.
The lead scientist on the study – Giora Proskurowski of the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle – says the hydrogen-rich fluids venting at the bottom of the Atlantic Oc... (more)
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Coming soon, an X-ray vision gun The superhero power to see through walls will soon be within the grasp of ordinary mortals, thanks to a new hand-held X-ray scanner.
Inventors hope the gadget could revolutionise police work and Customs searches by allowing officers to seek out contraband, weapons, bombs or hidden people.
The LEXID device sends out low-level X-rays which are collected in a lens based on the design of a lobster's eye.
Rick Shie, ... (more)
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