Are we alone in the universe? Are there planets like Earth around other “suns” that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of answering those questions is no longer light-years away.
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NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
Boomer Zeitgeist
Brent Green: Fidelity Investments recently unveiled a 30-second television commercial that presents the biography of a Boomer woman. In this frenetic, flowing montage, augmented by rapid cuts of iconographic images such as the “peace sign,” Fidelity has effectively captured powerful elements of the Boomer zeitgeist.
Magnetic Computing Gets a Boost
The combined efforts of researchers from Durham University, Imperial College, London and the University of Sheffield have fructified. Till now the basic computer is usually made by using semiconductor electronics. The researchers have gone ahead and have successfully created a computer by using magnetic microchips rather than semiconductor electronics.
New Study Shows What Grand Parents Already Knew: Youth are Thieving Pirates
The Recording Industry has released a new ‘unbiased’ study, blaming file sharing in part for the erosion of Canadian Society’s core values.
Selling Spit for Profit
South African health authorities may have uncovered a “spit scam” in which tuberculosis sufferers sell spit samples to healthy South Africans trying to qualify for disability grants.
