Not only can it get you loaded it can power you all the way to Margaritaville
IT HAS powered many a wild night and now it might power your car. Researchers in south-east Queensland are hoping the plant that fuels tequila madness can fuel internal combustion engines as well.

 
Possible cancer cure in the near future? Maybe..This major find certainly helps.
Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the ability to kill cancer cells in the lab. Now, for the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized the compound, an advance [...]

 
How much will you pay to know your end game
Bid in a one-of-a-kind auction to have your DNA sequenced and interpretedDNA Strands: Sequencing individual genomes may lead to medical breakthroughs such as specifically tailored medications.
No doubt you have it on your calendars, but in case you forgot, the 25th is National DNA Day. Can’t think [...]

A new vision for an orphanage in Tanzania

A student who visited a run-down African orphanage was so moved by the children’s plight that she raised £30,000 to buy it. Amy Lambert, 24, set about gathering funds after witnessing the horrors at the decrepit Kichijo Orphanage in Tanzania.
She spent eight weeks volunteering there last summer, when [...]

 Social media as a recruitment strategy
The U.S. Army wants you – to be its friend on Facebook.

Lip reading 
Some scientists at the University of East Anglia in England, with aims only for the betterment of humanity, we’re sure, have developed lip-reading software that can not only pick up words based on mouth shapes, but can even figure out what language you’re speaking — always a handy thing when understanding speech, we’ve found.

New generation of anti-impotency drugs may be more effective than Viagra 
A new generation of anti-impotency drugs that are rubbed into the skin could prove more effective than Viagra, research indicates. 

ESA and NASA planning to send two space missions to explore the sun
For over 400 years, astronomers have studied the Sun from afar. Now, a team at European Space Agency, with backing from NASA, is planning to send two space missions to explore the brightest star.

 
Omni directional technology. Multiple cylindrical shaped tires around a single axis, help guide the forklift in all directions.

 Obviously, leading a balanced life means different things to different people
Even the crazy people have a purpose in life. They can always serve as a bad example. In this week’s top 10 photo list, we have gone out of our way to find a purpose for crazy people. In some cases, we are still looking. [...]