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Plans unveiled for record-smashing 1000-mph
car
(Oct 24, 2008)
A team of UK engineers have set themselves a three-year target to
design and build a car capable of reaching 1000 miles per hour to
smash the current land-speed record by nearly 300 mph. In 1997, their
previous vehicle, Thrust SSC (SuperSonic Car), reached a speed of
763 mph in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. It became the first land
vehicle to officially break the sound barrier, becoming supersonic
for just a few seconds.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Mind power moves paralysed limbs
(Oct 16, 2008)
Scientists have shown it is possible to harness brain signals and
redirect them to make paralysed limbs move. The technology bypasses
injuries that stop nerve signals travelling from the brain to the
muscles, offering hope for people with spinal damage. So far the US
team from the University of Washington have only tested their "brain-machine
interfaces" in monkeys.
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more. Source: BBC |
Collider halted until next year
(Sep 24, 2008)
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring
2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. The incident on 19 September
caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak out into the experiment's
27km-long tunnel. Officials said the time required to fully investigate
the problem precluded a re-start before the lab's winter maintenance
period.
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more. Source: BBC |
Ultrasound to give feel to games
(Sep 3, 2008)
The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual"
objects in mid-air. The field of haptics – integrating computing
and the sense of touch – has been around for some time but has
required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a sense of feeling.
Now, a team of Japanese researchers has developed a system that uses
focused ultrasound to do the job.
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more. Source: BBC |
Google launches internet browser
(Sep 2, 2008)
Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet
Explorer and Firefox. The browser is designed to be lightweight and
fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that
rely on graphics and multimedia. Called Chrome, it will launch as
a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions
to come.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
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