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by Mike Zazaian October 18, 2006 - 6:25pm, 1 Comment >>

A new nanotechnology from French fashion company Chargeurs allows fabrics to adjust insulation based on ambient temperature, keeping wearers warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

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by Mike Zazaian October 18, 2006 - 12:39pm, No Comments

While the internet has been an enormous boon for our civilization, a recent Stanford Study shows that a fraction of Internet users display similar tendencies as users of hard drugs.

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by Mike Zazaian October 17, 2006 - 3:36pm, 12 Comments >>

Technology may alter the evolution of the human race over the next 100,000 years, dividing society into a genetically wealthy upper class, and a goblin-like lower class consisting of mostly undesirable features.

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by Mike Zazaian October 16, 2006 - 12:54pm, 3 Comments >>

A study conducted by French researchers suggests that a higher body mass index could lead to lower cognitive function.

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by Mike Zazaian October 12, 2006 - 10:33am, 1 Comment >>

Accenture Technologies is developing an intelligent mirror that uses video cameras to assess your physical appearance, then give you hard-to-swallow advice about improving personal hygiene.

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by Mike Zazaian October 10, 2006 - 2:35pm, 2 Comments >>

A boy who suffers from epilepsy was able to play Space Invaders via brain waves, thanks to a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

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by Mike Zazaian October 5, 2006 - 2:35pm, 2 Comments >>

Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark have made a breakthrough in teleportation by successfully transmitting both light and matter over short distances in a split second.

Led by Professor Eugene Polzik of Copenhagen University, the experiment improves upon previous attempts at teleportation that could transmit either light or matter, but not both. Polzik and his team were also able to transmit their matter over half a meter, much longer than the previous record.

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by Mike Zazaian October 5, 2006 - 1:14pm, No Comments

According to a study done by researchers at Indiana University, Jon Stewart delivers just as much factual information per minute as any of his ‘real news’ competitors.

Led by Julie R. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at IU, the study scrutinized coverage of the 2004 Democratic and Republican national conventions. Findings from the study indicated that the average amounts of video and audio substance in the broadcast network news stories showed no difference between news on the Daily Show and that of other networks. In addition, stories covered by the Daily Show were given more screen time than the average story of its competition.

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by Mike Zazaian October 3, 2006 - 5:50pm, 19 Comments >>

The U.S. Air Force is researching a new technology that would use magnets to accelerate satellites and other projectiles into space with a gigantic, circular track.

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by Mike Zazaian September 29, 2006 - 9:50am, No Comments

Researchers at the University of Alabama have developed a self-healing polymer that could prove very useful for aviation applications.

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