Eco Hummer
Hummers are an easy target these days. They’re a big, hulking symbol of greedy car culture: unnecessarily large gas guzzler driven by selfish people. They destroy the earth with their terrible gas milage and seem like a menace. But what if that horrible Hummer could get 100MPG?

Heart attack prevention
A young medical researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University is giving hope to the millions of people who may otherwise die of sudden heart attacks. Dr. Sharon Zlochiver has developed a mathematical model to predict heart attacks.

Paragon’s Lunar Oasis
Astronauts’ meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon.

 
A spinoff from the Rocky Mountain Institute, Bright Automotive, has developed a 100-miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid.
Last week, Bright Automotive, a startup based in Anderson, IN, unveiled a plug-in hybrid utility van designed to travel 50 miles on half a gallon of gasoline. The company plans to start producing the Idea vehicle in large volume by the end [...]

 Myrmecophyte plants-otherwise known as ant-plants
Nature is full of mutually beneficial arrangements between organisms-like the relationship between flowering plants and their bee pollinators. But sometimes these blissful relationships have a dark side, as Harvard biologist Megan Frederickson describes in an article for the May issue of The American Naturalist. (Pics)

Memory pill coming soon 
Here’s some good news for students — a memory pill which can help you with revision for exams is being developed by scientists.

About 40M people watch Globo, the leading network in Brazil. 
THE glamorised world portrayed on the nightly telenovelas (soap operas) on Brazilian television is, superficially at least, about as representative of the country as a whole as Marie Antoinette and her shepherdesses were of 1780s’ France. But they are all about aspiration. About 40m people watch [...]

The intrusive little bugger.

This tiny little box is, in fact, a cell phone. Well, it’s half a cell phone. You stick a SIM card in there, dial it, and the box will silently answer and then transmit back whatever it hears going on around it. There’s a rechargeable battery inside, a single power LED, and [...]

Modeling some work out burkas.

Many women-only sports clubs and gyms in Saudi Arabia face closure under a government clampdown on unlicensed premises.
Women’s gyms have become popular in the ultra-conservative Muslim country where the sexes are heavily segregated.
But only clubs linked to medical groups can get licences and others will be closed.

So many crazy color names.

Who doesn’t remember the feeling of opening a brand new box of crayons? Some of us may even remember how crayons smell or taste, but who can forget all the amazing colors to choose from?
Click through the link to see the hex codes for all 120 colours as well as learn some [...]