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Commercial Market for Reusable Spaceplanes

February 24th, 2005 at 11:58 pm » Comments (0)

Reusable spaceplanes that propel ticket-holding passengers to the edge of space are slowly becoming reality.



Restaurant Fined for Out-of-Date Website

February 24th, 2005 at 11:53 pm » Comments (0)

A restaurant in New Zealand has been fined $NZ3000 for advertising out of date prices and dishes on its website. Could there be a better reason for attending Saturday’s “Creating Effective Web Sites” Weekend Crash Course?



Introducing Haptics – The Science of Artificial Touch

February 24th, 2005 at 11:33 pm » Comments (0)

Samsung is breaking ground in the world of haptics- the technology of recreating touch and texture through artificial stimuli.



No-Drill Dentistry

February 24th, 2005 at 11:22 pm » Comments (0)

A newly invented dental paste could silence the dreaded whine of dentists’ drills, fixing early cavities without fillings.



How to Dump a Lover

February 24th, 2005 at 12:45 am » Comments (0)

The delicate problem of how to dump a lover before moving on to the next one has been given a new twist by a Dutch Web site.



In Search of the Big Fix

February 24th, 2005 at 12:35 am » Comments (0)

Seth Godin:
It’s no accident that so many Americans are turning to life-threatening surgery to solve life-long weight problems.



A Supercomputer for the Home

February 24th, 2005 at 12:30 am » Comments (0)

A supercomputer for the home PC? It will happen, says GridIron Software, an Ottawa-based developer of grid computing software.



Laser X-Rays

February 24th, 2005 at 12:12 am » Comments (0)

Radiologists and biologists have been dreaming – ever since the discovery of lasers – of a compact laboratory source emitting X-rays in one direction in a laser-like beam.



In Search of Cosmic Noise

February 24th, 2005 at 12:07 am » Comments (0)

A new radio telescope array has been developed by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the University of California at Berkeley that will shed some cosmic noise, and give scientists a better view of one million stars scattered throughout the universe.