Back in 1925, a certain Mr. Corbett had a vision of America by the year 1950. His vision was published in the Popular Science Monthly magazine August 1925 issue. According to him, by the year 1950, American city streets will have four levels. The top level will be for pedestrians, the second for the slow motor traffic, the third for the fast moving traffic and the bottom is for electric trains.
NASA Robot, Senseta MAX 5.0A, solves a 19-year-old murder mystery of Dawn Sanchez.
It happened in 1991 when Bernado Bass killed Dawn Sanchez. Her body and the murder gun was never discovered during the investigation. Bass' car, in which Sanchez was last seen, was also missing which resulted to the dismissal of the case in 1991 due to lack of evidence.
The case was recently reopened when an informant told the authorities that the car may have been disassembled and buried in a large abandoned lot in Alviso. The exact location in the lot was not specified, and the cost to excavate the entire area was too high. Enter Senseta MAX 5.0A, a rover outfitted with a Geometrics G-858 magnetometer. Based on data gathered by the robot, the county excavated the site and retrieved car parts that matched the suspect’s car. On August 29, 2009, Bass pleaded no contest to the charges and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison.
Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab (CMIL) in collaboration with the NASA Payload Directed Flight research team from the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames, and the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., assisted the County of Santa Clara’s District Attorney’s Office in solving a 1991 cold case murder investigation. The team deployed a Senseta MAX 5.0A Rover, an autonomous ground vehicle, to perform magnetic surveys of a vacant lot in Alviso, Calif., looking for buried material evidence, which included car parts and a possible body buried in the old junk yard.
If you're an avid fan of cycling but often get tired of doing so, then you need Joules, the bicycling robot. Joules sits on the back of a tandem bicycle and does the pedaling for both of you. How cool is that.
Now we have an excuse to swear (you know, those F_ _k and S_ _T), because scientist discovered that it's not all bad. It can actually help reduce pain and make you tolerate it than any encouraging words can do. Scientist believe that the brain circuitry linked to our emotion is involved in this phenomenon.
So next time you're in a doctor's office for a flu shot, don't be shy to swear. Give this post to your doctor and he'll understand. Now I know why this lady is swearing a lot.
The study, published today in the journal NeuroReport, measured how long college students could keep their hands immersed in cold water. During the chilly exercise, they could repeat an expletive of their choice or chant a neutral word. When swearing, the 67 student volunteers reported less pain and on average endured about 40 seconds longer.
We're sure all of us who are fan of Chinese dishes would love to know how to drink a tea with a chopstick. Well, there's no real secret or special tricks here. In fact it's simple, you just need a bag of tea, a chopsticks and you need be to onboard the International Space Station and the microgravity will do it's wonders. Check out the video.
In this winter season, you might wanna see how the snow crystals look like under a microscope. This amazing snow crystals images are magnified hundred of times using a microscope.
Are you dreaming of swimming like a fish? Well, the artificial gills is maybe the answer.
A brainchild of Alon Bodner, this battery-powered device named "LikeAFish" will extract oxygen from the seawater allowing for a tankless underwater diving. Although this new invention is in the prototype stage, Bodner says they are working hard to develop a prototype small enough for a diver to carry it on his diving vest. They are estimating that in two years a fully functional prototype will be available.
The system can work as a replacement of common 'open diving systems'. However, because of large air and water requirements, the system is best suited for 'closed systems', also known as 'rebreathers'.
Submarines and underwater habitats are private cases of rebreather uses, and where use of the new system would have enormous benefits. Many operations that are now considered to be 'impossible' become within reach when the underwater time of sub sea vehicles becomes virtually unlimited.
Archeologist believe they have found the oldest skeleton in the Americas - in an underwater cave in Mexico. The female skeleton named as Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, is believed to be 13,600 years old.
"We don't now how [the people whose remains were found in the caves] arrived and whether they came from the Atlantic, the jungle, or inside the continent," González said.
"But we believe these finds are the oldest yet to be found in the Americas and may influence our theories of how the first people arrived."
In addition to possibly altering the time line of human settlement in the Americas, the remains may cause experts to rethink where the first Americans came from, González added.
Triumph International of Japan unveils a eolar-powered bra. This is said to generate enough electricity a cellphone and iPod.
Triumph International Japan showed off its "Solar Power Bra" on Wednesday in Tokyo, but it will not be in stores just yet.
The environmentally friendly, green-colored brassiere includes a solar belt that goes around the stomach, but its creator admits that "people usually cannot got outside without wearing clothes over it" and says it should not be washed or worn in the rain to avoid damage.
A police helicopter, with a three-man crew, had a close encounter with a UFO. They are forced to swerve sharply to avoid being hit by it. It would have been a direct hit, the crew said. This extraordinary incident which took place near an RAF base outside Cardiff, South Wales, was said to be the first sightings of its kind.
“They are convinced it was a UFO. It sounds far-fetched, but they know what they saw.
“These guys are hardened professionals and know people will take the mickey, but they are certain they saw a UFO.”
The source added to The Sun: “After the near-collision they decided to follow it to find out what the hell it was.
"They belted across the Bristol Channel in pursuit, but it was too quick. They got to the North Devon coast and had to turn back because they were running low on fuel.”
The police Eurocopter, an EC135T21, was hovering in the sky above RAF St Athan late at night, waiting to land, a police spokeswoman confirmed.
The Null listed the inventions that was booed by famous individuals of their time, only for the invention to become a success. Here are some.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926.
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist.
A recent study showed that earth was habitable 4.3 billion years ago - much more earlier than previously thought. The team of scientists led by geologists Takayuki Ushikubo, Valley and Noriko Kita analyzed ancient minerals called zircons. This mineral showed that liquid water existed as early as 4.3 billion years ago. Zircons, the tiny mineral grains, was used to determine the age of ancient rocks since this minerals are resistant to chemical change.
Ushikubo, the first author on the new study, says that atmospheric weathering could provide an answer to a long-standing question in geology: why no rock samples have ever been found dating back to the first 500 million years after the Earth formed.
"Currently, no rocks remain from before about 4 billion years ago," he says. "Some people consider this as evidence for very high temperature conditions on the ancient Earth."
Previous explanations for the missing rocks have included destruction by bombardment of meteorites and the possibility that the early Earth was a red-hot sea of magma in which rocks could not form.
Truly the human body is a complex and amazing system. To get you a feel for it, here's a list of some amazing facts about our human body.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
This world’s smallest bowl of ramen at 1 Micron in width (1/100th the width of a human hair), contains dozens of 20-nanometer (1/50,000-mm) thick noodles. It was created by University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao by using a metal particle beam to carve the bowl from silicon, and a mixed of soup of ethanol and catalyst inside the bowl to form the carbon nanotube "noodles".
Litrospheres is a self-luminous micro particles invented by MPK Co. This new light source can lasts 12 years without a single recharge from electricity or sun exposure. Litroenergy, the technology behind Litrospheres, has potential to save billions of dollars in energy costs world-wide. It surpasses all known available lighting options for cost/durability/reliability and safety.
GlowPaint glow-in-the-dark paint company, MPK Co., has come up with self-luminous micro particles called Litrospheres™ which they say are inexpensive, non-toxic, and will stay on for 12+ years (half-life point) continuously -- without having to be plugged into any power source. It is a betavoltaic technology, using a radioactive gas, whose "soft" emission of electrons from the beta emitting gas cannot penetrate the glass or polymer wall of the microspheres.
A recent experiment showed that gene therapy may improve vision in nearly blind people. This is a major advance for the experimental technique as this is the first time scientists used the gene therapy to improve the sight of people with a rare form of blindness.
"It's a phenomenal breakthrough," said Stephen Rose, chief research officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which helped pay for one study done at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
If successful in larger numbers, experts said, the technique has the potential to reverse blindness from other kinds of inherited eye diseases.
"I think this is incredibly exciting," said Dr. Jean Bennett, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania and a leader of the Philadelphia study. "It's the beginning of a whole new phase of studies."
Dede aka "Tree Man of Java" is now able to use his fingers and walk after four major surgery. He hopes to live a normal life and be able to marry.
He can see the outline of his toes for the first time in over a decade after medics cut more than 4lbs of warty horns from his legs and feet. He has also become a sudoko addict now medics have cut growths from his hands. Dede, 37, now hopes that he will resume a normal life after two more operations to graft undamaged skin onto his hands, feet and face.
A collagen injection known as G-Shot, is now available for women who wants to increase sexual satisfaction. Given under local anaesthetic, a specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot. This procedure takes about half an hour and is designed to enhance women's pleasure around the G-spot which lasts around four months.
The £800 jab temporarily enlarges the G-spot to the size of a 10p in width and a quarter of an inch in height. This makes the G-spot easier to locate and highly sensitive, which it is claimed could enhance sexual arousal and gratification. The UK Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Centre in London's Harley Street says it is the first in the UK to offer the jab.
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