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proof for near-death? - The researchers found that the experiences did not
correlate with any of the measured psychological, physiological or medical
parameters, which Lommel said meant the experiences were unrelated to processes
in the dying brain. Most patients had excellent recall of the events, he added,
which undermined the theory that the memories were false. Science Looks through Deaths Door -"The long-lasting transformational effects of an experience that lasts for only a few minutes of cardiac arrest is a surprising and unexpected finding," write van Lommel and co-workers. "[S]ociety's negative response to NDE ... leads individuals to deny or suppress their experience for fear of rejection or ridicule. Thus social conditioning causes NDE to be traumatic, although in itself it is not a psychotraumatic experience. ... Only gradually and with difficulty is an NDE accepted and integrated." - WebMD Mechanical leech does icky job better - A team at the University of Wisconsin has developed its own sterile and efficient version of the ancient physicians' tool.- CNN Flesh Eating Robots - Scientists at the University of West England have developed the “SlugBot,” a prototype robot capable of hunting down more than 100 slugs an hour.- MSNBC IT - could change the way we build cities. IT could solve the pollution problem. IT could even solve the morning commute problem. Wouldn’t IT be nice? Forgive me for blaspheming here, but there’s a long road between here and there. - MSNBC A big step for molecular electronics - If the technology can be commercialized, carbon-based circuits could break the barriers imposed by the manufacturing process for today’s silicon chips. High-speed microscopic computers could be placed almost anywhere and run on just a tiny smidgen of battery power.- MSNBC
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new step in the teleportation quest - “We have produced entanglement at a
distance which means you and me can share entangled objects, which is important
for quantum communication, including quantum teleportation.” First Trans-Atlantic Telesurgical Operation - Doctors in the United States removed a gall bladder from a patient in eastern France by remotely operating a surgical robot arm. - BBC 12cm 'DVDs' - Japanese government agency have developed a low-cost technology that, researchers say, allows a 12-centimeter optical disk to hold 25 times more data than a 4.7G-byte DVD disk. - CNN Tiny Tech - Like a spacecraft’s snapshots of another world, the images on R. Stanley Williams’ computer show stark landscapes where parallel ridges poke out of what appear to be roiling blue rivers. The distances on this barren terrain are measured in the width of atoms, not miles. The ridges — just six atoms wide — will be the wires of an infinitesimally small circuit of the future. - MSNBC US Has Heavily-Researched Anti-Gravity Says Jane's Editor - The U.S. military may have conducted serious research into anti-gravity based on Nazi studies, a top defense journalist suggests in a new book... In ``The Hunt for Zero Point,'' journalist Nick Cook says, based on a decade's research, he believes by the 1950s the U.S. was seriously working on anti-gravity ``electrogravitics'' technology, which would lift and propel vehicles without wings or thrust... ``I feel intuitively that some vehicle has been developed, particularly given that there is this wealth of scientific data out there, and the Americans have never been slow to pick up on this sort of science,'' Cook, the aerospace consultant for Jane's Defense Weekly, told Reuters in an interview. - Sightings Weird Food-Gene Combinations Defy Imagination - Biotechnology researchers, heading off into uncharted worlds, may one day produce bacteria that detect land mines, fish that sniff out pollutants, and spider silk made from goat's milk... These are among the dozens of products biotech companies are developing, says a report out Thursday from the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology... "We wanted to look down the road five or 10 years to see what this technology is producing," says Mike Rodemeyer, executive director of the Pew Initiative. "It is a very powerful technology, and the report provides a lot of interesting examples of this. But at the same time, it's the power of this technology that is raising safety and environmental issues." - Sightings First Nerve Cell-Silicon Microchip Goes Live - "It has a touch of science fiction," admit the scientists who have wired up the first conducting nerve chip. The electronic circuit, grown from silicon and nerve cells, brings brain-repair chips, advanced biosensors and biological computers a small step towards reality... 'Neuroelectronics' combines nerve cells and microchips. It could one day lead to 'neuroprosthetic' implants replacing damaged nervous tissue, and advanced computers mimicking living, learning circuits. - Sightings US Makes 'Weather Control Powder' - A company in the United States claims it has invented a powder that can be used to remove clouds from the sky and even stop the development of hurricanes.- Laura Lee Dinosaurs Could be Hatched from Chicken Eggs - Scientists are planning to hatch dinosaurs from chicken eggs by turning back the evolutionary clock to when birds were dinosaurs. They believe advances in DNA technology could make such a feat possible in 60 to 100 years.- Strieber
Bionic Suit - “As you lift, the sensors send data to a microcomputer that triggers the business end of the system — a bunch of concertina-like limb and body actuators powered by compressed air.” - MSNBC The Self Cleaning Shirt - FED up with doing the laundry? Self-cleaning clothes, whose fabric is sown with friendly bacteria to gobble up dirt and human sweat, are your answer... Biotechnologists at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth are experimenting with fibres implanted with a strain of Escherichia coli, New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue... Their ultimate goal is to engineer different strains of bugs that live in clothing fabrics and feed on dirt, odour-causing chemicals and perspiration... Even more visionary: bacteria that feast on the uglies and go on to excrete sexy perfumes called pheromones. - The Australian Cybernetic Implants New pacemaker sends data remotely - U.S. health officials said on Thursday they approved a new type of pacemaker that is the first capable of sending information on a patient’s heart via remote transmission. - MSNBC SURGEONS are preparing to create the first husband and wife cyborgs: they intend to implant computer chips in a British professor and his wife to see if they can communicate sensation and movement by thought alone - Sunday Times Digital Angel - Applied Digital Solutions will begin beta testing on humans an implant technology capable of allowing users to emit a homing beacon, have vital bodily functions monitored and confirm identity when making e-commerce transactions... The first production run of "Digital Angel®" devices has begun, the Florida-based, NASDAQ-traded company has announced. - Sightings Radio Chips - Could an Electronic People Code be far behind? - Sightings
Antarctic penguin mystery - Australian scientists have found over 100 penguins dead near their Mawson base. - BBC Grizzlies : "An extinction story in progress" - There are so few grizzly bears roaming the Selkirk Mountains that biologists have given many of them individual names. They also have a collective moniker: “The walking dead.” - MSNBC Baboons capable of reasoning - Baboons in laboratory experiments showed hints of abstract thinking by picking out various images on a computer screen, a surprising finding that raises new questions about evolution and what distinguishes humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. - CNN Talking Dogs - The popular understanding of dog barking is almost like a silly riddle: Why do dogs bark? Because they can... But a small band of researchers around the world, trying to separate fact from speculation, are finding that dogs almost always bark for a reason, even if that reason isn't apparent to humans... The bark has evolved into a complicated means of communication between dogs and, potentially, between dogs and people, say a group of animal behaviorists, or ethologists, that includes Dorit Feddersen-Petersen at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany. - Sightings Archeology Explorers map undersea structures - The explorers said they believed the mysterious structures, discovered at depths of around 2,100 feet and laid out like an urban area, could have been built at least 6,000 years ago. That would be about 1,500 years earlier than the great Giza pyramids of Egypt.- MSNBC Interview with Discoverer of Underwater City - They are trying to match it to Central American, but it is distinctive on its own. It's very difficult to say that ancient American symbology is identical to this. It is not identical. It's similar, but not identical." - Earthfiles Eggs hold babies of giant dinosaurs - In a nesting area once used by hundreds of generations of dinosaurs, researchers have found a clutch of unhatched babies that come from the last and most massive family of long-necked, plant-eating sauropods.- MSNBC
When Whales Walked the Earth - The ancestors of whales not only walked on land, but were probably good runners, an analysis of 50 million-year-old fossils indicates. New discoveries from two groups of researchers add weight to the view that whales are related to land-based plant-eaters such as cows and hippopotamuses rather than to an extinct group of carnivores. - MSNBC 'Little Foot' - The oldest known hominid fossils yet found in southern Africa have been uncovered at the world-famous Sterkfontein Caves just north of Johannesburg. The remains, which include limb-bone and skull fragments, have been dated to be about 3.5 million years old. - BBC Amazing Arctic artifacts discovered - Primitive stone tools and other artifacts discovered close to the Arctic Circle in the desolate far north of European Russia indicate that a band of hunters set up camp there almost 40,000 years ago — far earlier than previously thought, researchers report. - MSNBC Genetics Fertility Doctor Vows to Create 'Designer Baby' - Taranissi said that a team from the Chicago clinic would arrive in London later this month, and that his embryo selection clinic might be operational by the end of January - with or without HFEA permission. The doctor could not be reached for comment Tuesday.- NewsMax Human Cloning Trial - Two hundred couples have been selected to take part in a human cloning project by an Italian embryologist. Dr Severino Antinori said he intended to go ahead with attempts to produce human clones, after announcing the successful cloning of 10 mice. Eight British women are reported to be among those who have volunteered to undergo fertility treatment using a human cloning technique he is developing. But the program has already prompted widespread concern from doctors, scientists and pro-life groups. - BBC Body Part Baby - CELLS taken from anywhere in the body could one day be used to make babies, according to scientists. - The Scotsman Space 80 Extra-Solar Planets So Far - The latest discoveries, reported Monday, bring the total of known planets outside our solar system to around 80. More important, they circular orbits reinforce a growing realization that at least some other planetary systems are similar to our own.- - Sightings Flyby of Comet Borrelly - The craft snapped black-and-white photos of the comet's nucleus from inside the coma, a halo of dust grains and atomic material burned off the comet by the Sun. It is only the third time a spacecraft passed close enough to capture images of a comet's nucleus. - Space.com Baby Pictures of The Universe - A NASA spacecraft is due to blast off Saturday on a trip to study the oldest light in the universe: the afterglow of the Big Bang. “We’re going to launch a mission that will take the ultimate baby picture,” says NASA’s Alan Bunner. The mission could help answer some of the universe’s ultimate questions as well. - MSNBC
Hungarians Scientists Claim To Have Found Traces Of Life On Mars - Hungarian scientists claimed on Friday to have found evidence of living organisms on Mars after analyzing 60,000 photographs taken by the Mars Global Surveyor probe... The three-man team said the pictures showed evidence of thousands of dark dune spots, similar to organisms found near Earth's South Pole, in craters in Mars' snowy southern polar region... ``These spots indicate that on the surface below the ice there are such organisms which, absorbing solar energy, are able to melt the ice and create conditions of life for themselves,'' biologist and team member Tibor Ganti told Reuters. - Sightings Mars Life More than Maybe, Scientists Say - "Physicist Serge Pershin, from the Russian Academy of Sciences, has analyzed images from the Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopically and found evidence of chlorophyll on Mars," Spherix Corp. chief executive officer and conference leader Gilbert Levin told United Press International from Beltsville, Md. "Pershin has found large regions that look like a film on the planet surface."- NewsMax The Mars Grid -Assume for the moment that the grid is the product of a natural geologic process. Given that, I do have a few questions. How is it possible that the “grid” has not been buried by the storms on Mars? - Hoagland 25 Year Coverup? - Data collected 25 years ago on the surface of Mars by NASA's twin Viking landers show evidence of life, a scientist claimed Friday. - CNN Sir Arthur C. Clarke, believes that new images of Mars clearly show the red planet dotted with patches of vegetation, including trees.... "I'm quite serious when I say have a really good look at these new Mars images," Clarke said. "Something is actually moving and changing with the seasons that suggests, at least, vegetation," he said. - Space.com From the Mind of Tesla Tesla's Greatest Secret - It operated in an entirely new domain of physics based on abrupt discharges of electrostatic potentials and the subsequent release of kinetic Radiant Energy from the omnipresent ether. Tesla was... operating under entirely new rules which he referred to as "dynamic" electro-static forces and had, by now, completely abandoned any further interest in the AC waveform. - Sightings Tesla's Death Ray - Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors who celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on July, 10 tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the United States government the secret of his "teleforce," of which he said," airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible 'Chinese Wall of Defense' would be built around the country against any enemy attack by an enemy air force, no matter how large. - Sightings
Scientist says the Mind Survives Brain-death - A British scientist studying heart attack patients says he is finding evidence that suggests that consciousness may continue after the brain has stopped functioning and a patient is clinically dead. - Excite Sudarium of Jesus - Scientists and forensic specialists gathered in Oviedo, Spain, this week to examine an obscure relic that many have claimed authenticates the Shroud of Turin -- believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. - Sightings The Kavorkian Question Right-to-die woman to fight on - In the first case of its kind, Mrs Pretty challenged a refusal by the Director of Public Prosecutions, David Calvert-Smith, to rule out taking action against her husband if he helps her commit suicide. - BBC
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