technology

Okay, I am conviced that the ONLY way humankind is going to make any kind of progress in the future in regards to space is in a breakthrough in propulsion technology. Besides Ion Drives (which are still kind of primitive), we haven't developed anything of note in 30-40 years, right? What kinds...

Holy cow! On toast! I can't believe I'm the first one to start this thread! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030612/ap_on_sc/hydrogen_environment_6 Take a look-see. The researchers are estimating that the leakage would be 10-20 percent! What do you think? Isn't that a...

After reading this article on genes from the Washington Post, I thought to myself: will we see the same technological advances in our lifetimes that our parents and grandparents saw in theirs? I mean, my grandmother went from mule-drawn carriages in Sicily in 1905 to Neil Armstrong on the moon...

I was reading an article written by Larry Niven, one of my favorite Science Fiction writers. He listed several of his own "laws" - observations about life and the universe. Some of them are very witty and IMHO true such as "Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun." and "Any damn fool...

Nanite (nano) Technology This technology seems to be more fiction, than fact. Has anyone ever seen any concrete proof of there existence? Ive heard a lot of urban legends, such as the engineers at IBM that made the nanites assemble in the formation of the letters IBM. Supposedly, these little...

www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993508 Stem cells from murine bone marrow successfully developed into insulin producing beta cells. If this procedure can be successfully achieved using human adult stem cells then a cure for diabetes may be on the way. It should be remembered that...