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Skin-tenna: Antenna That Uses Skin To Transmit Signals

By On June 20, 2008 · 15 Comments

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed a wireless antenna that channels signals along human skin could broadcast signals over your body to connect up medical implants or portable gadgets. The new power-efficient approach could make more of established medical devices like pacemakers [...]

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Researchers Build Bionic Eye That Could Give You Superhuman Vision

By On June 8, 2008 · 4 Comments

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes — visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic [...]

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Supercomputer Performs Laser Cancer Surgery

By On June 5, 2008 · 4 Comments

Lonestar, a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) recently performed a laser cancer surgery on a dog without the intervention of a surgeon. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster [...]

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Research: Bacteria Capable Of Generating Electricity

By On March 4, 2008 · 3 Comments

Researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of the energy produced by these organisms.

The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can [...]

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Out-of-body Experience Recreated

By On August 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers. The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.

Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere. The visual illusion [...]

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Scientists Expect Artificial Life In 3 To 10 Years

By On August 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Here is a interesting news on CNN about the possibility of creating the Life artificially. Scientists around the world are trying hard to create life form artificially and they are getting closer. According to the news we can expect an announcement from scientists within [...]

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