SeaGen
This summer, the first commercial electrical generator to draw power from the ocean tide began supplying Northern Ireland with energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4A0B_-aQK4

 
 As known, oil prices are going up and some companies are finding ways to save on this. The DHS cargo company has come out with the kite-powered cargo ship project (that reminds me something of kite-powered).

 
Ever wondered if you could travel faster than the speed of light? According to physicists Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy, interstellar voyages could be possible when warp drive would be turned in to reality.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVcsc5K9xk

Creating art out of playing cards. Is this guy nuts?
Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison.

Its About Freakin Time
From wood scraps to oil and fuel, Canadian company Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation has big plans for the future of its product. ..

 
 Skulls of members of the Franklin Expedition, discovered and buried by William Skinner and Paddy Gibson in 1945, at King William Island.
For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that.
 
 
 

Olive-backed Forest Robin
A new species of bird has been discovered in Gabon, Africa.

 
 Nils Olav Knighted In Norway
Norwegian King Harald the Fifth has just knighted … a penguin! That’s right, a penguin named Nils Olav, the honorary member and mascot of the King’s Guard since 1972, is not Sir Nils Olav to you:

 
  Special device built to analyze a swimmer’s thrust (triangular structure, right) can help swimmer’s stroke.
Around the time that the swimwear company Speedo was calling on NASA scientists to help create the now famous LZR Racer suit–an enhanced skin that many people credit for more than a dozen world records broken by swimmers so far this […]

 
A humpback whale named “Stumpy” after he lost his tail as a baby in an apparent killer whale attack has been sighted again years later on an epic journey along Australia’s coast.

 
What is the history of this drug known as Dimebon?

 
 Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle
With all the inhabitable zones progressing to newer heights in terms of technology, the uninhabitable corners of our globe too gets a taste of avant-garde achievements with this Concept Ice Vehicle. Not intended for entertainment and amusing purpose, this latest ice automobile from Lotus was invented to be taken to Antarctica on […]

 
The human brain may become a “battlefield” in future wars, including “pharmacological land mines” and drones directed by mind control, a new report has predicted.

 
 
Keep humming “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. The 1980s New Age-inspired hit got it right. New research shows being happy can add several years to life.

 
In a bright studio at New York University, Natalie Jeremijenko welcomes visitors to her environmental health clinic. She wears a white lab coat with a rotated red cross on the pocket. A clipboard with intake forms hangs by the door.

 
The Hubble Telescope completes 100,000th orbit and takes yet another breathtaking photo.

 
Athletes using performance-enhancing drugs can’t stay ahead of detection methods for very long.
Athletes aren’t the only ones racing against the clock this week in Beijing. A team of skilled scientists is working 24 hours a day at a drug-testing lab in Beijing’s Olympic Sports Center, analyzing approximately 4,500 blood and urine samples for banned substances. […]

The United Arab Emirates keep building their Blade Runner-ish cities in the middle of the desert, with buildings like the Ras Al-Khaimah Gateway, a 2.9 million square feet hotel, conference and exhibition complex that looks like some kind of alien mothership from outer space.
 

Sere Traore, 7, sells gold for 5,000 Guinean Francs (approx. $1) to gold buyer Majan Djwara,
in the region of the Fatoya mine, in Guinea on April 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)
If you wear a gold ring on your finger, write with a gold-tipped fountain pen, or have gold in your portfolio, then chances are you’re […]

According to the Beijing Times, 55 seconds of the televised Olympics 2008 firework display? Completely fake:
Anyone who saw the opening to the Bejing Olympics would agree that the fireworks display was exceptional, but those watching at home were tricked into thinking what they saw was real, when some of it was actually CGI.

Only the finest for the dead rich people
In one of the world’s fastest aging societies, Japanese seniors are worrying about a life-and-death issue: finding an “after-life” home in an island short of land. For some, going high-tech is the solution. In accordance with Buddhist tradition, most of the dead in Japan are cremated, and the […]

 
 
The world’s largest solar energy project is currently in its planning phases, and it looks like it’s going to be absolutely enormous. Planned for Gujarat, India, it’ll be producing 5 gigawatts of power when all is said and done. That’s a serious amount of energy.

 
 Algae tanks at the Farnborough International Air Show, which took place in London July 14-20.
Researchers Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld from ASU’s Department of Applied Biosciences recently flew to London to share their findings and research on the application of algae-based oils for creating biofuels at the Farnborough International Air Show.
 

 Would you trust this man to blow up your church?
Catholic nuns and priests in Italy are following their flocks to the beach this summer, establishing an inflatable church and a beach-convent in the sands to lure sunbathers.
The 30-metre long blow-up church - staffed by priests ready to take confession - will debut on Saturday on […]

 
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, aimed at unlocking secrets of the universe, will be launched on September 10, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Thursday.