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Friday, November 18th, 2005The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Popular Science
This article recounts the amazing discovery of coloured bubbles and how hard it is to make them.
In the end, it seems that they may only be a side-effect of the new dyes that were created : instead of colours that persist, they have invented colours [...]
Interesting Interview with Charles Stross
Friday, September 2nd, 2005After reading ‘Iron Sunrise’, the latest novel by Charles Stross (the next one up is called Accelerando), I found a very good interview with him on the infinityplus website, covering lots of interesting topics. Worth reading.
Update : Science Fiction Weekly also has a good interview with him.
A Novel Way of Treating Diarrhea
Sunday, July 17th, 2005San-Francisco based Napo Pharmaceuticals has created a novel new drug against diarrhea which is quite unique in the way it works AND in how it is to be sold :
Crofelemer is unique in how it works because traditional anti-diarrhea medications like Lomotil and Loperamide decrease bowel motility, and are absorbed by the bloodstream. Crofelemer works [...]
Artificial Meat, Anyone ?
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005There have been a number of articles about growing muscle tissue from separate cells (aka ‘meat’) - separately from an animal, that is.
Writing in the journal Tissue Engineering, Matheny said scientists could grow cells from the muscle tissue of cattle, pigs, poultry or fish in large flat sheets on thin membranes. These sheets [...]
Superwater kills bugs dead
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005An article in Wired.com talks about a new kind of water that kills single-cell organisms, but which does not harm in any way multi-celled organisms (like people).
Developed by Oculus Innovative Sciences in Petaluma, the super-oxygenated water is claimed to be as effective a disinfectant as chlorine bleach, but is harmless to people, animals and plants. [...]
New High-Capacity Microdrives coming
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005Hitachi is working on new micro-drives that are using a different sort of magnetic recording (perpendicular instead of longitudinal recording).
Why the music industry has to set music to expire in order to survive
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005Think of father and mother and children and then the grandchildren, all able to listen to music that’s as pristine as the day it was bought, wether yesterday or 10 years ago - heck, it’ll play & 100 years from now !
Printed Circuit Boards from feathers ?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005Wired has a news article that looks at the future of the printed circuit board - instead of creating it out of petroleum, they will use the keratin from chicken feathers (the quill is not used), together with Soy Bean oil as a bonding agent.
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