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A Dog is Invention of the Year
Earlier this year, the prestigious Time magazine came out with an issue highlighting the previous year's great inventions, an annual practice. There was lots of stuff that made computers work more efficiently and which made things around the house better. There was a bicycle with a hydrogen-powered fuel-cell engine. Why, there was even a robot cat that could recognize and f ...
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Prozac Returns
In the late eighties and early-nineties, Prozac was pronounced as the new wonder drug, a magical cure for depression that was patronized by millions of people worldwide. Prozac was later discredited when murmurs spread that it could spur suicidal tendencies in regular users. These days, Prozac is making a big comeback in the most unlikely of places: law enforcement.Online news ...
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Scientist Hwang Woo Suk Falls Back to Earth
It's quite a sight to see a man rise to the very pinnacle of his vocation and then come falling back down to earth, disgraced, humbled and with his tail between his legs. Things would be infinitely worse if the arena where all this happened was one filled with back-biting and intrigue, such as the world of Science .That's exactl ...
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The Vast Potential of Human Cloning
Think of a world where infertile, childless couples can go to a medical clinic, purchase cell replacements for malfunctioning cells in the reproductive system and, thus, bear kids; a world where people afflicted with degenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease can replace their damaged cells and be cured again; a world where the crippled can get the m ...
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Remembering Dolly the Sheep
The world's first cloned mammal, "Dolly the Sheep," introduced herself to mankind10 years ago to the day last June 17. Her birth was a great milestone in the history of science and a watershed event in the evolution of the science of cloning. For the first time, there was living, empirical evidence to substantiate the long-held belief that it is possible to clone animals an ...
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Stem Cell Breakthrough
We've all known about the potential that is offered by the use of stem cells when it comes to treating illness and disease due to their unique ability to transform into almost any type of human cell. The science has faced much controversy, however, due to the fact that stem cells are most often obtained through harvesting them from abortions. That has been the major roadblo ...
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The Battle Of Mobile Giants
Recognized as the fastest-growing handset manufacturer on the planet, Motorola has recently seen its sales figures skyrocket represented by a 53 percent increase in July 2006, over the previous quarter. However, Motorola's main competitor, Nokia, remains the industry's leader with 34 percent of the market selecting to purchase its unique mobile phone models. Those two g ...
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Female Brains vs. Male Brains
A new book that recently hit the market proclaims that women are much better than men when it comes to remembering the emotional times of their life. According to the new book “The Female Brain” by author Lou Ann Brizendine, women tend to remember the emotional events of their lives better than men because women’s brains are structured differently and contain ...
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The Technology Generation
Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in our daily lives. From the cars we drive, the homes we live in and the places we work and learn, we are faced with technology by the bucket load, aiming to improve efficiency and encourage competitiveness on a modern scale. The fact of the matter is, today technology is an irretrievable constant in our daily lives.&nbs ...
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