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Potential New Cancer Drug Identified by Scientists

We all know that Cancer claims a lot of lives and many of us have lost relatives to the disease, I know I have.

Scientists from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have been able to accomplish what a lot of scientists have been trying to do for years; they have found a cancer drug which doesn’t kill normal cells in the way that it does tumour cells.

To read the full and in depth article about this discovery click here.

CERN scientists perform rap to explain the LHC on YouTube

As the scientists start work at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at CERN, they have recorded a rap song to celebrate. The video that goes with the rap has been posted on YouTube and has had more that 2.5 million hits in less than a week.

In the video you can see the scientists in white coats dancing in the collision chamber, the rap was written by Kate MacAlpine whose rap name is Alpinekat and she is a trainee at CERN.

Kate said she wrote the rap on her journey’s to and from work, and then the staff all got together to do the video, Kate said the scientists hope that it explains what goes on at CERN, with lyrics such as “Twenty seven kilometres, a tunnel underground, Designed with a mind to send protons around.
We have to wait 30 days for the first atom smashing will take place at the LHC, which is reported as the world’s biggest scientific experiment.

You can watch the YouTube video by CERN here

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Scientists Genetically Engineer Lab Mice: altered DNA gives mental illness

If you thought you was a dedicated gamer then you should check out the mice in the above photo, gaming old school style.

Jokes aside this is a subject that a lot of people are not happy with as scientists at Johns Hopkins University have been playing with the DNA of lab mice egg cells Read more

Scientists love gaming consoles instead of super computer, Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii in particular

16 Sony PS3 consoles used instead of one super computer to simulate two black holes merging is one reason why scientists love gaming consoles. We know that gaming consoles are getting more and more powerful everyday and they are easily programmable as research computers, scientists are in fact finding real world applications for Read more

UK Scientists Invent New Infrared Camera: Dtect counts HOV passengers

This is one that people who try to cheat the system will not be happy about, as UK scientists have invented Dtect (a new infrared camera).

What Dtect does is count the number of passengers inside cars to check if there is too many people in the car, the system is targeted at cars driving in high-occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV) Read more

Scientists Develop Inexpensive, Printable, Paint-On Solar Cells

With the ever advancing technological discoveries that our world boasts and advances in every day comes Read more

Scientists Create Flexible Battery, As Thin As Paper

As with all gadgets, we need some kind of power source to fuel our beloved personal electronics, but it seems like scientists may have revolutionised the way we provide energy to our portables. Ever cracked an iPhone or iPod into two? No, neither have I. But doing so will result in you finding a Read more

Tiny Implantable Biocomputers: scientists develop for first time

As I love watching Sci-Fi films and documentaries I have heard many things about Nano technology, but up to now most of this has been in the minds of film directors and more fiction than fact…this is all about to change.

Researchers at Princeton and Harvard University have made a crucial step towards building biological computers Read more

Wet Artificial Life Possible In 3 Years

Across the globe, some of the top scientists are attempting to create life from nothing, and so far there has been no success but now experts are saying wet artificial life will be possible in just Read more

Artificial corneas: Research shows it could save sight

For years millions of dollars have been spent in research into helping saving a person’s eyesight, and now it seems as if one EU-funded CORNEA project has been able to develop an artificial cornea that could very well do this. Many of the trails are showing promise as Read more

Nanomachine Imagined 150 years ago Now Reality

Physicist James Clerk Maxwell had a vision in 1867 when most modern technologies these days would seem like witchcraft to Joe public back then.
Now scientists have created the atom-size Maxwell’s Demon device which traps molecular-sized particles as they move.

This minuscule motor has been created by scientists at the University of Edinburgh 150 years after it was first visioned by James Clerk Maxwell and can now Read more

New see through flexible displays: great for e-books and much more

Scientists have developed what we believe to be a breakthrough in future technology, scientists have developed new see through flexible displays which would be great for e-paper, e-books, maps on say your car windshield and even Read more

Bendy silicon chip paves way for flexible electronic devices

In just a few short years we will be seeing a range of flexible electronic devices thanks to a new bendy silicon chip. US scientists have designed these new chips and are made from ultra-thin silicon that has been bonded to sheets of rubber and have been folded like a concertina.

According to the Science Journel these flexible stretchy chips will be ideal in a number of products like smart clothing. US scientists are now working on a design for a smart latex glove, which will then be use by surgeons. The glove will be able to measure vital signs as well as blood oxygen levels; this could prove invaluable during an operation.

For a full report visit BBC News

Robo-dog Ideal Pet For The Elderly

It’s lovely to come home and be greeted by your pet, but for some people it is not practical to have pet in their home, due to long working hours, some elderly people don’t have pets as they can’t out and about to walk them.

Here is the answer it’s the Read more

Phenomenon called quantum tunneling makes photons exceed light speed

It seems two clever German scientist claim to have made photons exceed light speed, how they did this was with a phenomenon which is called quantum tunneling. The scientists came across this breakthrough one day when they were Read more

Are You An Addict: But Why?

Which ever drug you are addicted to, there could be an explanation why. Scientists are predicting that genetic factors could account for around 60% of each person’s addition and environmental factors could cover the other 40%.

Different studies have taken place over the last 30 years Read more

Environment News: World may exceed dangerous global warming limit

On Tuesday there was a presentation of a new 5 year research program from the scientists at Britain’s MetOffice Hadley Centre saying that the world could possibly exceed a global warming limit which where the European Union calls it dangerous. Of course some are Read more

Mummified Dinosaur Found: how do they really look with skin?

Scientists have discovered what seems to be the world’s most intact dinosaur mummy. Wired.com have reported that the 67-million-year-old dinosaur contains fossilized bones and skin tissue. There is a possibility that there is also muscle and organs in the mummified beast. Read more

Cure for AIDS Found: Can This Be True

The cure for aids has been found which consists of an all-herbal remedy.
When we see that we think WOW, followed by is this complete bull as this will be one of the biggest discoveries of recent times.
Well this is just what the Iranian government boasts of as announced on Saturday; they said that their Iranian scientists have “introduced an AIDS cure”.
I feel this has got to be complete **** no chance can this be true as I have sky news in front of me and it would be all over it Read more

Hackers Overwhelm Computers that help manage global computer traffic

The most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002 happened today without many people even noticing as computer scientists worldwide raced to cope with enormous volumes of data that threatened to saturate some of the Internet’s most vital pipelines.
Out of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic at least 3 were overwhelmed.
The hackers disguised their origin and it could be traced as fair as somewhere in South Korea (because of vast amounts of rogue data there).
Read full story on CNN