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Will the First Elevator to Space Be Inflatable?

(Popular Science) For a few years now, we’ve been excited about the possibility of a cable-based space elevator as an alternative to expensive rocket launchers. To date, though, the various attempts to make it happen–including annual contests and Japan’s recent initiative–have come up short. The problem? Space...

Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku explores the possibility of Time Travel

Russia Sends Circus Man Into Space

(Space-Travel.com) Space Adventures,

Ltd., the only company currently

providing human space mission

opportunities to the world marketplace,

today announced that its orbital client

Guy Laliberte and his crew successfully

launched aboard a Soyuz-TMA...

Network of Wi-Fi-Enabled Cyborg Insects Hunts Down WMDs

(Wired.com) The Pentagon is looking

for better ways to prevent chemical

weapon attacks. So military researchers

are implanting insect larvae with WMD-

detectors - turning them into cyborg-

critters that specialize in tracking...

New Book Debunks Human-Chimp Similarity

(Institutuion for Creation Research)

Evolutionary science repeatedly

declares that chimps and humans are

98 percent genetically identical, which

is then taken as solid evidence that

mankind evolved from an apelike

ancestor. But a former BBC...

New Steps Towards A Real Invisibility Cloak

(Popular Science) Researchers at

Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory and Cornell University both

said last week they've designed

invisibility cloaks that work in the

visible-light spectrum. OK, so they're

not big enough to cover a...

The Aftermath of Prozac and Many Other Serotonergic Drugs

(Rense.com) It is crucial to learn that

according to medical research the

theory behind this group of drugs is

invalid. Known as serotonin reuptake

inhibitors. They are designed to block

serotonin in the brain, thereby...

The Universe Was Created Recently

(ICR.org) The universe is only

several thousand years old. Comets

are an example of a natural clock

within our solar system. With each

orbit around the sun, comets lose

considerable mass. They cannot be

very old because they cannot...

Astronomers Claim Universe is 13.73 Billion Years Old

(NY Times) The universe is 13.73

billion years old, give or take 120

million years, astronomers said last

week. That age, based on precision

measurements of the oldest light in

the universe, agrees with results ...

Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

(NY Times) A robot that can open

doors and find electrical outlets to

recharge itself. Computer viruses that

no one can stop. Predator drones,

which, though still controlled remotely

by humans, come close to a...

A Designer Universe?

by Steven Weinberg (Nobel Prize Winning Physicist)

(Physlink.com) I have been asked to

comment on whether the universe

shows signs of having been

designed. I don't see how it's possible

to talk about this without having at

least some vague idea of what a...

U.S. Lab Debuts Super Laser

(Breitbart) A US weapons lab on

Friday pulled back the curtain on a

super laser with the power to burn as

hot as a star.The National Ignition

Facility's main purpose is to serve as

a tool for gauging the reliability and

safety of the US nuclear weapons...

Israeli Army Develops Batllefield Robot Snake

(Jerusalem Post) A robot snake,

capable of recording video and

sound on the battlefield, is on the

way to join the the IDF's hi-tech

arsenal. According to a Channel 2

report the spying robot, which is

about two meters long and covered...

Stephen Hawking's Explosive New Theory

(telegraph.co.uk) Prof Stephen Hawking has come up with a new idea to explain why the Big Bang of creation led to the vast cosmos that we can see today.Astronomers can deduce that the early universe expanded at a mind-boggling rate because regions separated by vast distances have similar background temperatures.They have proposed a process of rapid expansion...

Abortion, Stem Cells, and Cloning

(LifeIssues.Net) On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Roe vs. Wade, that the laws outlawing abortion in Texas were unconstitutional because a woman had a right to privacy, guaranteed by the Constitution. Suddenly, the unborn had no legal protection in the United States. But Roe vs. Wade did not just deny legal protection to the unborn; it catapulted the United States...