01/11/2005

Mt. St. Helens Recovery Slowed by Caterpillar

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it destroyed every living thing around it. Gas, ash and rock, heated to over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, sterilized a 60-kilometer square area, leaving a gray lunar-looking landscape devoid ...

Look ma, no hands!

A few years ago scientists managed to wire a monkey’s brain to a robotic arm. The monkey learned to manipulate the arm simply by thinking. This year, John Donoghue at Brown University has managed to do the same – with ...

Titan Weather: Cloudy Every 15 Years

About two years ago, before the Huygens probe arrived at Titan, Henry Roe, a graduate student I was working with at Berkeley, discovered clouds on Titan. He was the first person to get images of what he thought were clouds ...

India To Launch Exclusive Satellite To Track Natural Disasters

In the wake of the recent earthquake which caused havoc in India and Pakistan, killing thousands of people, the Government of India has decided to launch an exclusive satellite that can track natural disasters, a top official ...

World semiconductor sales up 5 percent

World semiconductor sales grew more than 5 percent in September as demand remained robust and driven by brisk markets for cell phones and personal computers.

Russia To Launch Satellite For World Space Observatory

Russia is planning to build and put into orbit a satellite that will lay the foundation for the creation of the World Space Observatory (WSO), a project to explore deep space in the ultraviolet spectrum by 2008, a Russian ...

Baby tooth DNA solves mystery death

Australian scientists have used a keepsake baby tooth to solve the mystery of the death of a couple's 7-year-old daughter, 14 years after she died.

Study: High mortality rats ate GM food

A recent Russian study says 55.6 percent of the offspring of female rats fed genetically engineered soy flour died within three weeks.

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