March 2012
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Natural gas vehicles Honda Civic GX
The Honda Civic GX has become a standard to grow from over the last couple of years, and the only Natural Gas Vehicle available in the US market as well. 2012 is going to be no exception for Honda once again. In fact it has received several awards and distinctions coming into 2012. Natural gas vehicles growth in sells couldn’t be any better, with rising gas prices. Could natural gas...
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New plant Discovery, smells like "Road kill"
The new species, collected on two small islands off Madagascar, 4.5-foot-tall plant, Amorphophallus perrieri
also known as “road kill” was discovered. Smaller then its giant sized relative, however just as smelly.
The 4.5-foot-tall plant, Amorphophallus perrieri, began reeking Friday, Feb. 3 as it approached the peak of its bloom in a campus greenhouse. A day later, Wahlert a...
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Tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa, known as Burj Dubai is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 2,723 feet.Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. The total cost for the project was about US$1.5 billion, is part of the new (490-acre)...
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Martin Jetpack
Unlike earlier devices called “jetpacks”, the Martin Jetpack is the first to be considered a practical device. It has been under development for over 27 years and uses gasoline (premium) engine with two ducted fans to provide lift. Theoretically it can reach a speed of 60 miles per hour, an altitude of 8,000 feet, and fly for about 30 minutes on a full fuel tank. The consumer price...
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Most poweful weapon ever used? Tsar Bomba!
Tsar bomba is a russian nick name given to a hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated. The bomb is sometimes referred to as “Kuz’kina Mat’” potentially referring to nikita khruschev’s promise which he often said “Kuz’kina Mat’”!!! Which is a famous famous Russian idiom. “Kuz’kina Mat’” translates...
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FDA cow ruling "dangerous bacteria"
The ruling said that its no longer allowed to give healthy cows antibiotics for the fear that it could create dangerous bacteria. A federal judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35 year old rule that would stop farmers from putting antibiotics into animal feed, a practice that have led to a surge in dangerous, drug resistant bacteria. in a ruling handed...
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IBM Unveils a New Brain Simulator
Scientist at IBM in San Jose, California research center announced at the supercomputing conference that they have created the largest brain simulation to date on a supercomputer, made up of neurons, and synapses. IMB claims that it exceeds that of a cat’s brain. Previous simulations have only reach the level of a small mouse or rat brain. The new breakthrough will led to a better...
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Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"
Craig Venter his team created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell created by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.
In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean’s biodiversity. And now he’s created the first synthetic lifeforms !...
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23andMe affordable genetic testing
23andMe is a privately held company located in mountain view, California know for providing affordable genetic testing. The name 23 comes from the pairs of chromosomes in are cells, founded in 2006. The 23andMe website is currently split into four categories: Health and Traits, Ancestry, Sharing and Community, and Research. They currently test or are...
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Methane gas in Siberia
More than 50 billion tons of methane could be unleashed from Siberian lakes alone, more than 10 times the amount of methane in the atmosphere now. Russian scientist shuffle across the frozen lakes braking into the ice and measuring the methane out put. Methane gas locked inside Siberia’s frozen soil and under its lakes is currently being released at a dangerous rate. Scientists believe it...
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip
The Obama administration is preparing for a space tourism industry that is expected to be worth $1 billion in 10 years, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s commercial space office said on Tuesday. The U.S. Government anticipates several companies’ flying tourists to outer space and back by 2014, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s commercial space...
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Coda electric vehicle starts at $37,250
So the car has finally hit the stores in California for $37,250,……not bad. Considering the formal price was going to be much higher about $44,900, still more expensive then the 2012 Nissan Leaf, which starts at $35,200. The coda qualifies for a $2,500 EV rebate and a 7,500 federal tax rebate, which would bring the price down to $27,250. What does $27,250 buy...
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Dutchman flaps and takes off!
After 8 months of hard work, research and testing it all payed off. Jarno Smeets, a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands, fascinated by new technology, robotics, aerodynamics put his skills to the test and built a bird suit. After months of planning putting together sketches and filling orders for new equipment you start to see the development of his bird suit . On his youtube page...
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newly discovered planet 4,000 light years away
A newly discovered planet 4,000 light years away is to dense for scientist. Dubbed CoRoT-20b, the planet is thought to be a gas giant about four-fifths the size of Jupiter and orbits close to a sun like star. Despite the new planet’s size, this world has four times Jupiter’s mass! That poses a problem for astronomers: If CoRoT-20b is structured like a traditional gas giant, with a...
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Stealth planes China Chengdu J-20 Race to Stealth
The Chengdu J-20 a fifth generation air plane for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) with a price tag of 110 million usd. In late 2010, the J-20 underwent high speed tests. The J-20 made its first flight, which lasted about 15 minutes, on 11 January 2011. China thus became the third nation in the world to “develop and test-fly a...
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Stem cell scientist unveil lab-grown lung
American researchers have provided some hope for the hundreds of Australians languishing on organ-transplant waiting lists. Doctors at the Harvard Medical School have used stem cells to construct a miniature lung, which functioned for up to six hours when transplanted into a rat. Lung transplant specialists say the research is a significant breakthrough in efforts to...
