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Pheonix Lander Finds Ice On Mars

Posted on 20 June 2008

NASA scientists have announced on Thursday that the Mars Pheonix Lander has discovered water ice on Mars. Their statement is backed by “photographic evidence” which have eluded this mystery and now we can say that there is ice therefore water could exist on Mars.
The photos show ice which sublimed after four days and Peter Smith, […]

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Robotic Hand That Can Sense Objects Before Touching Them

Posted on 12 June 2008

Researchers from Intel have designed a robotic hand which can sense the shape of an object before it interacts with it. The robotic hand is based on electrolocation which means that the tips of the fingers are sending an electrical signal to the objects that will interfere with, and the hand will recognize the object […]

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Small Planet To Be Build By A Scientist To Test The Magnetic Field

Posted on 11 June 2008

We all know what a compass is, but ever since it was discovered we don’t know why the magnetic field keeps the needle of the compass to point north. Scientists came up with many ideas, but none of them were satisfying. Now, a geophysicist named Dan Lathrop has build his own planet that will create […]

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Depression Could Be Treated With Brain Implants

Posted on 08 June 2008

Depression affects many people around the world and researchers are trying to find out new ways of fighting against. Humans are treating depression with drugs and therapy but this is not satisfying enough. An interesting technique to cure depression is to use brain “pacemakers” which regulate the brain activity.
Brain pacemakers are based on electrodes that […]

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Solar Towers Of Power To Produce Renewable Energy For California

Posted on 06 June 2008

As we were accustomed, the state of California has a new project regarding solar energy. We are very happy to say that California is doing a great job in order to achieve their goal of using renewable energy to produce 20 percent of their power by 2010.
Their latest project is also a Southern California Edison […]

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Successful Cold Fusion Claimed By A Japanese Scientist

Posted on 30 May 2008

A cold fusion breakthrough has been announced by a former physics professor at the Osaka University. The professor named Yoshiaki Arata performed a demonstration regarding cold fusion helped by his co-worker Yue-Chang Zhang.
The researchers used the force of pressure to determine the deuterium (D) gas into a cell which contained palladium dispersed in zirconium oxide […]

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MRO Captures Pheonix While Landing

Posted on 29 May 2008

As you probably know by now, the Pheonix Lander has descended and landed on Mars. Another first for NASA is that the MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) has photographed the Pheonix while the spacecraft was descending on Mars. The high-resolution camera caught an awesome image on Sunday of the Pheonix which currently sends images from the […]

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Proteins In Unicellular Algae Could Cure Blindness

Posted on 24 May 2008

Researchers play an important part in improving our current technology, actually they are the most important because they come up with ideas that could help us. A domain that many of them focus is medicine and a disease that they are looking to cure is blindness and a recent report shows that blind people could […]

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Brain Tumor Removed Using A Robot Surgeon

Posted on 19 May 2008

Robotic surgeons are getting more and more precise and a few days ago, Calgary doctors managed to remove a brain tumor from a 21 year old woman using a two-handed robot called NeuroArm. The operation took about nine-hours and it’s the first time that a robot made a surgery like this and hopefully, there will […]

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Sky Serpant - Cheaper And More Efficient

Posted on 15 May 2008

There is no point to remind you of the fact that fossil fuels are harming our planet and we need new and efficient ways to produce clean energy. A great way to generate energy is to use the force of the wind, but conventional wind turbines are big and expensive, without mentioning that wind farms […]

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