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Light At (Almost) The Tips Of Your Fingers

If you don’t want a bulky flashlight to deform your pockets, here is a cool way to find your way in the dark. These jacket cuff lights provide you with beams of white light whenever you need them. So get th... Continued
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The Tiniest Alphabet Soup In The World

You can choose the font and even the color of each individual letters, but you’ll need a microscope to see them and laser tweezers to move them around. A research team at the University of California in Los... Continued
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Weekend Article and Review Round Up

Had a few things sent in over the weekend. Here they are! Motherboards ThinkComputers - ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i CPU EclipseOC - AMD Athlon64 4000+ AM2 Video Cards AMD Power - Foxconn GeForce 8800 ... Continued
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Space Truckin’ Needs Careful Planning

Apollo missions packed all they needed on board and deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS) is straightforward compared to the complexity of interplanetary logistics. NASA is taking successfull... Continued
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Evolutionary Car Racing

The University of Essex, in the UK, is organizing a special car racing competition. This contest will involve model cars driven by what they call an “evolutionary software” which is able to learn through ex... Continued
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The First Easy-To-Use Conception Kit

With millions of people worldwide having fertility issues, the Michigan-based company Conceivex, Inc. has found a niche. They've taken the hard work out of conceiving with their patented and FDA-approved Co... Continued
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A Chameleon Suit For Soldiers

  Soldiers have been receiving quite a few goodies lately. First the cooling vest, that keeps them comfortable in hot combat conditions, and then "smart fabric" that helps monitor their physiological respons... Continued
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Mice Who See The World The Way Humans Do

Non-primate mammals do not see colors as well as humans, due to having photoreceptors that only detect short (blue) and medium (green) wavelengths of the visible spectrum of light. Genetically engineered mi... Continued
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French UFO Files Open To The Public

The French National Space Agency has decided to set up a website making available to the general public all recorded UFO sightings over the national territory in the past 50 years. The goal of such a releas... Continued
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Bright Students Prefer Heavy Metal

The usual stereotype of a little genius is a studious kid, head in books and listening to soft classical music. However, a team of researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, has released a study that sho... Continued