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Uncorking Longevity

June 30th, 2004 at 9:18 pm » Comments (0)

Resveratrol may be the first real antiaging drug, but don’t drink to your health just yet.



Cane or Breast for Naughty Students

June 30th, 2004 at 9:13 pm » Comments (0)

A schoolteacher has been suspended in Zimbabwe for allegedly giving pupils the choice of being caned or suckling her breasts.



Hypnosis Doubles Fertilization Success Rate

June 30th, 2004 at 9:10 pm » Comments (0)

Hypnosis can double a woman’s chances of getting pregnant after in-vitro fertilisation treatment, according to new research.



Student Sets New Text Messaging Record

June 30th, 2004 at 9:04 pm » Comments (0)

A Singaporean student looks to have smashed the world record for high speed text messaging.



Sneakiest Primates Shown to Have Biggest Brains

June 30th, 2004 at 9:00 pm » Comments (0)

Monkeys and apes who are good at deceiving their peers also have the biggest brains relative to their body size. The finding backs the “Machiavellian intelligence” theory.



Toymaker Invents Dream Machine

June 30th, 2004 at 8:11 am » Comments (0)

A Japanese toymaker claims to have invented a gadget that can help people control their dreams.



World’s First Pregnancy from Frozen Ovaries

June 30th, 2004 at 8:06 am » Comments (0)

For the first time a woman has become pregnant after having thin slices of her ovaries removed and frozen during cancer treatment, and then re-implanted.



Virtual Fences to Herd Wi-Fi Cattle

June 30th, 2004 at 12:27 am » Comments (0)

Virtual, moving fences controlled from a laptop could one day herd cattle to fresh fields for grazing, a roboticist told the MobiSys 2004 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday.



Men Talk More Than Women

June 30th, 2004 at 12:23 am » Comments (0)

According to a new study by Cingular Wireless, men on the company’s network are 16% more talkative than women for the fourth year in a row.



Sensor Nation

June 30th, 2004 at 12:16 am » Comments (0)

Dust-sized wireless communications nodes, pinhead-size cameras, and other sensors; contact-lens video displays and wearable computers controlled by subvocal speech and other muscle movements; and the ability to google anything, anywhere–we will soon be able to know almost everything about everyone.



Teching Up the Low-Tech Silent Auction

June 30th, 2004 at 12:12 am » Comments (0)

While the auction might be silent, there is bound to be a lot of buzz surrounding the silent auction technology featured at this weekend’s Denver Polo Classic.



NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base

June 30th, 2004 at 12:00 am » Comments (0)

Landing mobile bases on the moon is an idea whose time has come, according to a NASA researcher.