It’s a legend about as popular, and generally believed, as the reputed presence of alligators in the sewers of New York — namely, that the only human-made edifice astronauts can see from space is the Great Wall of China. Well, forget it.

ANN ARBOR, MI – Scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a gene that controls the amazing ability of adult stem cells to self-renew, or make new copies of themselves, throughout life.

VANCOUVER, Canada — The approximately 50 million people in the U.S. who suffer from autoimmune diseases like HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, may soon be able to control their immune responses, thanks to a breakthrough discovery by a researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

The Nuna II vehicle has won the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia for cars that are powered only by sunlight. The Dutch machine completed the 3,010 km race distance in just 30 hours and 54 minutes – a record for the event.

Software cyberbabes, created by powerful computers, sophisticated modelling packages and active imaginations are getting extremely human-like.
Rene Morel’s 3D model has a very human face
Virtual cyberbabes are used in advertising campaigns, hit shoot-em-up games, and the pop industry, from Lara Croft to virtual pop idols, T-Babe and Diki or DK-96.

US scientists have drawn up plans to build the largest telescope ever seen. Its 30-metre-diameter mirror would be almost 10 times as big as those in the Keck telescopes in Hawaii, currently the world’s largest observatories.