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Sniffing Chip Particle Detector

January 19th, 2005 at 11:54 pm » Comments (0)

A small glass chip that could one day help sniff out the building blocks of life on Mars has successfully detected sparse organic compounds in barren, Mars-like environments on Earth.



Army To Hackers: We Know Where You Live

January 19th, 2005 at 11:37 pm » Comments (0)

The executive producer of “America’s Army,” the free online game funded by the U.S. Army, is hopping mad at hackers who have taken advantage of the game’s security holes, saying, “the Army is angry, and we’re coming for you.”



Gadget to Rate Your Sex Drive

January 19th, 2005 at 5:47 am » Comments (0)

Scientists have invented a machine that can measure how randy you are feeling.



The End of Candor

January 19th, 2005 at 5:44 am » Comments (0)

Seth Godin:
One of the reasons blogs worked so well for so long is that we could believe them.
One person, one blog, just the truth.



For Surgery, a Robotic Nurse

January 19th, 2005 at 5:31 am » Comments (0)

Leonardo da Vinci had the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in glorious Renaissance Florence to inspire his early innovative mind, and Thomas Jefferson could putter about in Monticello, in the Virginia countryside, sketching inventions after leading a nation. But the myth of the modern inventor, silicon heroes like Bill Gates and the Google guys, says [...]



New DNA Scan to ‘Identify Criminals in Minutes’

January 19th, 2005 at 5:22 am » Comments (0)

Criminals face being identified within minutes of police arriving on the scene following new developments in DNA technology.



Printing Human Cells

January 19th, 2005 at 5:17 am » Comments (0)

Scientists are developing an inkjet printer that can create “made to measure” skin and bones to treat people with severe burns or disfigurements.



Creating the Bionic Robot

January 19th, 2005 at 12:33 am » Comments (0)

Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles have successfully bonded flesh to silicon to create what they claim is world’s first muscled robot.