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Innocent man’s fury after police took fingerprint and DNA samples
AN ex-soldier who has served in Northern Ireland and guarded the royal family is calling for a police investigation into why he had his fingerprints and DNA sampled after he became the victim of
Read More »Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science
By Betsy Mason | A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo,
Read More »DNA finger printing could soon reveal your surname
By Richard Alleyne | The laboratory which invented genetic fingerprinting believes the same technique could be refined to reveal the surnames of men. A study of more than 2,500 men bearing over five hundred
Read More »‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise
New Scientist | Last year, New Scientist revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect “hostile thoughts” in people walking through border posts, airports and public places.
Read More »How industry money protects killer chemicals
By David Michaels | It happens almost every time. When a study is published linking a workplace chemical to serious disease, a scientist working for the industry disputes the findings. David Michaels, author of
Read More »Scientists to study synthetic telepathy
UCi | A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy. The research could
Read More »Planets by the Dozen
By Dr. Tony Phillips | You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a
Read More »New CSI Tool Analyzes Antibodies
AP | Federal researchers say they’ve developed a human identification test that’s faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It would be a handy new weapon in the arsenal for detectives, forensic experts and the
Read More »Insects using plants as telephones
By Roland Piquepaille | A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. ‘Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way,
Read More »Cambridge University Twin Towers Theory Debunked
Dr Seffen Paper Proven Ludicrous By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News In late 2007 a British academic, Dr. Keith Seffen of the University of Cambridge, published a new mathematical analysis of the collapse of
Read More »Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory
By Jeremy Laurance Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works. The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to
Read More »Scientific Technique and the Concentration of Power
Brent Jessop “So long as the rulers are comfortable, what reason have they to improve the lot of their serfs?”- Bertrand Russell, 1952 (p61) Bertrand Russell in his 1952 book The Impact of Science
Read More »First Air-Powered Car: Zero Emissions by Next Summer
By Matt Sullivan India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as
Read More »Did White House Censor Science?
CLAYTON SANDELL House Democrats and Republicans traded rhetoric Monday over a new report claiming White House officials sought to suppress scientific views of global warming that clashed with Bush administration policies. The report —
Read More »Holes in the wall to see PINs in our eyes
Daily Mail Bank customers could soon enter their PIN codes at cash machines just by looking at the numbers in the right order. The system is designed to beat fraudsters looking over your shoulder
Read More »‘We have broken speed of light’
By Nic Fleming A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory
Read More »First genome transplant turns one species into another
· Research is aimed at producing green fuel · Critics warn of terrorists creating new bioweapons Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday June 29, 2007 The Guardian Photograph: Getty Images Scientists have converted an
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