A "Mood Lamp " That Can Read Minds

A technology called “functional MRI” or fMRI can see what is happening inside someone’s brain when they are thinking specific thoughts. The Psyleron Mind Lamp is a fun way that explores an application of this technology.

Researchers at Princeton University developed the Lamp, and claim that the Mind Lamp changes color due to “electron tunneling”, a quantum-level phenomenon that directs the lamp to change the lamp color.

The lamp has a microprocessor that checks for statistical patterns that adjust the red, green, blue and white color balances on the body of the unit.

Gardens on the Moon

Groundbreaking advancements in the realm of space engineering may see the moon sown with the first gardens to grow on the lunar surface by 2012.

As part of the Google Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development Corporation has recently teamed with Odyssey Moon to develop a pressurized mini greenhouse to deploy on the surface of the moon, grow a plant from seed, and hopefully see it flower and seed itself. This marks a critical stage of development for extending life beyond the confines of our planet.

In order to successfully grow a plant on the moon, Paragon has developed a very specialized greenhouse that can safely contain a plant and provide it with all elements it needs to survive.

The greenhouse will need to protect the plant from the sun’s intense rays while providing it with enough water, balanced soil, and carbon dioxide while removing its waste oxygen. They are basically creating a space suit for the plant.

Artificial Blood Vessels

Researchers have developed artificial blood vessels made using a person's own skin cells which could dramatically improve the results of organ transplants.

These new blood vessels are made from a patient's own tissues, which lowers the chance of a harmful immune reaction.

Normally, doctors typically harvest a piece of a vein from a patient to make a bypass called a shunt, but over time, these shunts often fail, forcing doctors to use shunts made with plastics and other synthetic materials that can trigger immune reactions or blood-flow problems.

Researchers led by Cytograft Tissue Engineering of Novato, California, came up with a method for growing replacement vessels using a patient's own cells. They start by harvesting skin cells growing these in a sheet. They then roll up the sheet into the shape of a tube.

Bermuda-Triangle (Mystery)

The “Triangle” in History: a shape takes form

“The region involved, a watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, measures less than a thousand miles on any one side.”
. . .So George X. Sand introduced the Triangle to his readers in October 1952 in a short article for Fate magazine, entitled “Sea Mystery at our Back Door.”
Sand’s article recounted the latest disappearance (the Sandra in 1950) and went on to discuss some of the other recent baffling mysteries like NC16002, Star Tiger and Star Ariel, aside from

devoting most of the article to Flight 19.
The Triangle remained a colloquial expression throughout the 1950s, employed by locals when another disappearance or unexplained crash happened.
By the early 1960s, it had acquired the name The Deadly Triangle. In his 1962 book, Wings of Mystery, author Dale Titler also devoted pages in Chapter 14— “The Mystery of Flight 19”— to recounting the most recent incidents of disappearances and even began to ponder theories, such as electromagnetic anomalies and the ramifications of Project Magnet. His book would set the temper for Triangle

The Deadly Triangle as it appeared in a 1962 book Wings of Mystery by Dale Titler. The idea that Vincent Gaddis invented the shape and mystery is nonsense. It had long been popular before his time. He seems merely to have been the first one to call it Bermuda Triangle. It is also nonsense that Gaddis or anybody else ever thought that Miami, Bermuda, and San Juan were absolute nodal points. Gaddis was merely trying to give the area geographic life to a growing audience.

Fate’s October 1952 issue. The Triangle begins.

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Swine Flu

OVERVIEW

An outbreak of swine flu in Mexico has raised concerns worldwide that the disease could be emerging as a global pandemic. On April 26, 2009, American officials declared a public health emergency after 20 cases of swine flu were confirmed in the United States; by the next day, the number had doubled.

The virus in the American cases looked identical to the A (H1N1) swine flu in Mexico that is believed to have killed 149 people and sickened about 1,600. Health officials in the United States and at the World Health Organization urged the public not to panic, noting that the cases confirmed outside of Mexico had been mild, and that the virulence of the virus remained unknown.

Still, they urged Americans to forego nonessential travel to Mexico, where many schools and public venues had been shut. On April 27, the European Union's health commissioner urged Europeans to avoid nonessential travel to the United States or Mexico. The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Richard Besser, responded that the advisory was unwarranted.

Officials said that 28 of the 50 confirmed cases in the United States were diagnosed in New York City, all among students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Officials said they had also confirmed cases in California, Kansas, Texas and Ohio. Diagnoses have also been made in Canada, Spain, Scotland and New Zealand.

Mexican officials said they had traced the origins of the outbreak to a rural area known as La Gloria in the southeastern state of Veracruz, the site of several major pig farms.

SWINE FLU QUESTIONS

The new swine flu cases are caused by an influenza strain called H1N1, which appears to be easily passed from person to person. Doctors have little information yet on the mortality rate, as there is no reliable data on the total number of people infected.

The central question every flu expert in the world would like answered, Dr. Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine for the Centers for Disease Control, said in an interview, is how many mild cases Mexico has had.

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The Most Popular Causes of Death In 2030

At the end of 2008, a list with a prognostic of the most "popular" causes of mortality in the year 2030 was published by the World Health Organization. Nowadays, these are: tumors, ischemic disease of heart and disturbances of the cerebral blood circulation.

According to this list, the 3 causes will still keep their positions in future; more than that, the frequency of these diseases will increase. Other frequent causes of mortality today are infarctions and heart attacks in an older age. Besides, in such cases, the patient's life often depends on the extreme measures taken in the first minutes or hours, which is a problem for doctors both in big cities, and in villages, because of the distance that may separate them. By 2030 the situation is less likely to change.

The number of deaths in car accidents will also increase. It isn't surprising since the number of cars is in a continuous growth and, in the history of humanity, technical development has always outrun culture evolution.

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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking

Ambien and Lunest are often prescribed sleeping pills. These pills, however, cause the most strange side effects. The Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday such strange behavior as eating or driving while asleep.

These reports have provoked the F.D.E. to order the drug makers to make certain fliers for such sleeping drugs, where patients could read detailed instructions on how to use them.

The investigation of such side effects was caused by, but limited to numerous reports from the users of Ambien (the most prescribed sleeping drug). Their complaints ranged from harmless sleepwalking and hallucinations to eating while asleep, violent outbursts and driving, which is the most disturbing.

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2010 Audi

Although media focus has shifted to its smaller Q5 crossover, Audi hasn't forgotten about the larger Q7. The 2010 model, debuting at this week's 2009 Shanghai motor show, sports a few small repairs, helping it fit in with Audi's heavily-revised portfolio.
If you're a fan of the Q7's physical form, you'll be elated to know the crossover's shape doesn't change for 2010. Exterior changes are limited, with the largest revision being revised front and rear bumper skins. Others, notably the new grille insert and LED daytime running lamps, help bring the Q7 in line with the company's current design ethic.

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A Wristwatch for The Blind

This new watch features rotating discs with nub on each representing the "hands". Feeling the nub helps the blind read the time.

Three−dimensional rings distinguish the discs from each other and a flexible membrane protects the face of the watch.

Mind-Reading Headsets That Can Change Your Brain

Apr-24-09

Researchers have developed systems that read brainwaves – in the form of electroencephalogram signals that can help people suffering from disabilities or paralysis control wheelchairs, play games, or type on a computer.

Two companies are preparing to market similar devices to mainstream consumers.

These devices are remarkably cheap, especially when compared to the price tags on research-grade EEGs. INstead of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the new headsets will retail for $299.

Peanut-shaped Stellar Explosion Spotted By Hubble

ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2009) — Using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), an international team of astronomers have taken the first optical images of a dramatic stellar outburst and discovered a peanut-shaped bubble expanding rapidly into space.

Team member Valerio Ribeiro, a graduate student from Liverpool John Moores University presented their results on Wednesday 22nd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science conference at the University of Hertfordshire. Read more......

Mauna Kea telescopes spy mysterious blob at cosmic dawn

April 23, 2009 - Mauna Kea, Hawaii

This composite image of Himiko, an Alpha-Lyman blob, is shown in false color. Himiko sits nearly 13 billion light years from Earth and spans 55 thousand light years, a record for that early point in time. The thick horizontal bar at the lower right corner presents a size of 10 thousand light years.

Using a number of telescopes, including the Subaru and Keck observatories on the summit of Mauna Kea, scientists have discovered what they describe as a mysterious space blob 13 billion light years from Earth.

Dubbed Lyman-Alpha blobs, these huge bodies of gas are thought to be precursors to galaxies.

Astronomers using the Japanese Subaru telescope were the first to find it, and therefore have named this object Himiko for a legendary Japanese queen. Himiko stretches for 55 thousand light years, a length comparable to the radius of the Milky Way's disk, which is a record for that early point in time.

A press release about the discovery issued by the W.M. Keck Observatory said this Lyman-Alpha blob is one of the most distant objects ever found. Its distance does not easily allow researchers to understand its physical origins. The object could therefore be ionized gas powered by a super-massive black hole, a primordial galaxy with large gas accretion, a collision of two large young galaxies, super wind from intensive star formation or a single giant galaxy with a large mass of about 40 billion Suns.
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A world away, two planets somewhat like Earth

By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer

The most Earth-sized planet and the most temperate planet known beyond our solar system both circle a dim red star 21 light-years away. These discoveries, announced yesterday at a meeting in England, moved astronomers a step closer to their dreams of finding other planets capable of supporting life as we understand it.
Since 1995, scientists have found more than 350 planets orbiting other stars, but most suffer from the same problems that make our neighbors in the solar system so inhospitable.
Many of the so-called extrasolar planets orbit so close that their stars would sterilize their surfaces. Others are jumbo "gas giants," like Jupiter, and therefore unlikely to have solid surfaces.
Astronomers suspect that Earthlike planets are out there but that they are nearly impossible to detect with current technology.
This latest finding came from a Swiss and French team working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. They announced this latest finding at an international conference at the University of Hertfordshire, in conjunction with the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science.
For the last four years, the team has been studying this relatively nearby solar system, called Gliese 581, named after Wilhelm Gliese, who cataloged this and other nearby stars. It now appears to have four planets. Read More.....

Scientists discover lightest exoplanet yet

The planet orbiting Gliese 581 has a mass twice that of Earth.
Provided by ESO
April 21, 2009 Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet "e" in the famous system Gliese 581 is only about twice the mass of Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist. These amazing discoveries are the outcome of more than 4 years of observations using the most successful low-mass-exoplanet hunter in the world, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph attached to the 3.6-meter European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescope at La Silla, Chile. Read More....

A Daring Pairing of Moon and Venus

Early risers in North America are in for a treat on the morning of Wednesday, April 22nd, when the waning crescent Moon passes in front of the brilliant crescent Venus.

The apparent path of Venus behind the Moon on April 22, 2009, depends on where you are. The local horizon is approximately downward; celestial north is to the upper left.
Sky & TelescopeFor much of the continent the occultation happens after sunrise in broad daylight. If the air is clear you can find the thin, dim Moon about 33° to the upper right of the early-morning Sun, with Venus near its edge. Sadly, this event will be a near miss along the Eastern Seaboard. Read More....

2009 Aston Martin DB9 Volante

The good: A stunning exterior and beautiful coachwork mark the 2009 Aston Martin DB9 Volante. The standard 700-watt stereo system is good, and an available 1,000-watt Bang & Olufsen system is even better. A hard-drive-based navigation system works quickly, and the Bluetooth system shows cell phone contact lists.
The bad: The ride is a little stiff, with no comfort settings, and the DB9 gulps gas. The navigation system LCD integration looks like a hack, and the overall electronics interface isn't well-integrated.
The bottom line: If you want and can afford an Aston Martin DB9, you will probably get one, no matter what anyone else says. But it's nice to know that the cabin electronics are modern enough for cell phones and iPods.
Specifications: Body style: Convertible ; Trim levels: DB9 ; Available Engine: Gas See full specs

Efficient Designs Reduce Drag By 60% to 80%!

Aircraft, trucks, autos, ducted fans and vacuum cleaners that undergo this new, completely efficient design for drag reduction (air friction) may decrease their drag by 60% to 80%, while also increasing engine power and speed. There are two main design features:

1) Rear fuselage/body drag reduction devices.

2) Engine intake manifold and exhaust flow system.

The rear foil designs have been tested and results prove to initially reduce the rear aerodynamic drag coefficients by 64% for a six ton diesel truck. The foils increased acceleration and speeds for uphill climbs, cruise and top speeds and reduced a seven hour trip to five hours.

Nanotechnology Robots That Are As Small As Bacteria

Apr-19-09
Researchers in Zurich have built micro-robots as small as bacteria which are made to help cure disease in humans.The tiny spiral-shaped robots, similar in look to E. coli, are called “Artificial Bacterial Flagella” (ABFs). They were invented, manufactured and enabled to swim with their moveable tails by researchers in a group at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich. At a total length of 25 to 60 µm, They can only be observed under a microscope and perform, ironically, the opposite function of real bacteria - to help cure disease.[SCIENCEDAILY.COM]