03.03.11

Gates Foundation Announces $10 Billion for Vaccines in the Next Decade

Gates hopes to save 8 million children by 2020 Steve Jobs may have grabbed the
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Silicone Implants Become Energy-Harvesting Devices

Bringing cosmetic implants into the new energy age Natural body movements such as breathing and walking could soon power pacemakers and maybe even give some extra juice to your future iPad purchase. Princeton
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Long-Awaited Barefoot Running Study Finds Sneakers Are Harmful

Shoes change the human foot strike and may lead to more running injuries... All
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Manned and Unmanned Helicopters

Flying alongside drones might seem a bit strange for U.S. Army chopper pilots, but it has major payoffs. The U.S. Army found that a mixed flight force of manned and unmanned helicopters could locate and kill 90 percent of targets, compared to manned helicopter forces
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Bio-bug, UK's first sewage-powered car, takes to the streets

Think your car runs like crap? A sewage utility in Bristol, UK, has converted a Volkswagen Beetle to run on human waste. The Bio-Bug
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Does the Future of the Car Live in China?

In just over a decade, the car industry in China has exploded. As of November 2009, China is the largest automobile market in the world, combining active partnerships with established foreign brands with a thriving, developing domestic market. China's seemingly
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Technology + lifestyle efficiencies = all work and no play

At one point or another in our lives, most of us would have had the hypothetical conversation surround which era of time we’d like to visit or have been born in. For some, living at the time of knights and fair maidens has chivalrous appeal. For others, living at a time when technology was
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Iran's Boat-Plane-Thing Would Strike Fear Into Other Flying Military Boats if Any Existed

Iran's Sacred Week of Defense (celebrating its eight-year resistance to the Iraqi invation of the 1980s) is never without a healthy dose of pomp and ceremony, but this week Iran's defense ministry took the usual military parade to the waterfront. Yesterday Iran unveiled
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Violent Star Birth Spawns Serene Snapshot of the Lagoon Nebula

Without a telescope, the Lagoon Nebula is faintly visible with the naked eye as a unremarkable patch of gray in the heart of the Milky Way. Observed up close with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, it looks slightly
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The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks

I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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Please, Don't Let This Be the Future of Air Travel

On your last flight, did you stare with envy at the people sitting in the exit row? Did you get a charley horse from trying to cross your legs under your tray table? Consider yourself lucky, pal. Your next budget flight might ask you to fly horseback style, squeezed
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First Mars Landers Might Have Found Organic Material In 1976, and Destroyed It By Accident

The building blocks of life might exist in Martian soil after all, according to a new study. Evidence from the late Phoenix Mars lander suggests its Viking forebears might have found
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FYI: What Would Happen If Every Element On The Periodic Table Came Into Contact Simultaneously?

There are two ways to go about testing this, neither of which are practical. One requires the energy of dozens of Large Hadron Colliders. The other could yield a cauldron-full of flaming plutonium. Both, however, would probably create carbon monoxide and a pile of rust
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Five Contests That Recognize The Science Achievements of the Everyman

There's a long tradition of offering big cash prizes to entice talented and creative individuals to solve problems that have stymied industry and governments for decades. For example, in 1810, French cook Nicolas Appert won a 12,000-franc government prize for a food preservation
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At physics conference, scientists say they are closing in on 'God particle'

As particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may not be far off. Physicists from Fermilab in Illinois announced they combined the results of two experiments
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Why Australia doesn’t deserve a cyber-guardian key holder

If you haven’t already, you should have a read of this story on the PopSci front page. It tells the fantastical, yet true, tale of how there are seven global
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The world needs retail service conscription

I recently returned from a rather short-term trip to the US of A and was greeted by this poor flight attendant and his meltdown that has become a rather public affair. Having read the various stories surrounding this incident and even watching the video re-enactment on the
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The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks

I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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Opinion: Should You Buy An iPad?

Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
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Video: An incredibly accurate (working!) hoverboard replica would make future-Marty proud

The closer we get to the year 2015, the louder people lament that our world hardly resembles the one depicted in Back to the Future II. Although it will be awhile before any of us coast around in a flying Delorean, we've piped down our complaints, as a young
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Video-stitching surveillance camera gives DHS 360-degree, 100-megapixel seamless views

Big Brother was watching before, but soon he'll bewatching with a whole new set of high-tech eyes. The US Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is creating a wide-eyed
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Robots are scheduled to defeat humanity by 2050 (in football)

It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote my passionate plea to sports fans asking them all to buy into my belief that human referees, umpires and other such adjudicators should
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Stereoscopic 3-D TV – you’re doing it wrong

We’re over halfway through the year and many retail outlets are a-buzz with the launch of 3-D TV. Samsung was first to market, and with other major television manufacturers set to release their own 3-D TV sets before the year is out, Australia is watching to see which form of active-technology
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WIN more driving skills here!

For your chance to win a defensive driving course, email us at [email protected] with the subject line 'The Buzz July Comp' and in 25 words or less tell us about which car you think deserves the title of Australia’s Best Value For Money Car
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