Cold Fusion comes in a foot long cylinder

November 6th, 2008 China is always trying to replace what US did and revolutionized. The newest one is Tudou that has grown considerably to challenge the likes of Youtube.com.

July 21st, 2009 Space station astronauts use robot arm, go TwitterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts inside the international space station on Tuesday used robotic arms to move a storage pallet holding equipment for three experiments from the belly of the docked space shuttle Endeavour to the outside of the orbiting outpost's Japanese-made lab.

November 1st, 2004 An interesting question is posed by Simon (in trackback). It is also true for many other professions.

August 18th, 2006 The ambitious One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a big step forward. More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.

December 4th, 2008 NASA's one of the most important projects till date, the Mars Science laboratory is not going to happen soon confirmed NASA spokesperson. Though it was scheduled for somewhere around early part of December but it is to be delayed for at least 2 years.

June 1st, 2005 With supplemental oxygen, Will Cross, 37 became the first person with type 1 diabetes to reach the South Summit of Mt. Everest. That put him just shy of the top of the 29,029-foot mountain.

July 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, web pioneer Google launched what could be the ultimate guide to the earth's natural satellite. Google on Monday updated its popular mapping software Google Earth with a complete map of the moon that allows you to explore craters, historic sites and human artefacts.

April 28th, 2005 Scientists have developed the world’s tiniest refrigerator – and it’s pretty cold too. Even smaller than a college dorm fridge, the microchip sized fridge can cool objects down to -459 degrees Fahrenheit.

July 21st, 2006 Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro created a robot clone of himself. His incredibly lifelike mechanical double, "Geminoid HI-1," sometimes takes his place in meetings and classes.

February 17th, 2006 JUnit 4.0 finally adopted annotation based test identification, which TestNG has been doing for long, really long time. TestNG support lower versions of JDK, whereas JUnit supports only JDK 1.5.

September 24th, 2005 Hurricane Rita plowed into the Gulf Coast early Saturday, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, threatening to flood low-lying regions and knocking power out to half a million people as transformers exploded. Rita struck just east of Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana line, bringing a 20-foot storm surge and up to 25 inches of rain according to National Hurricane Center said.

February 1st, 2005 I have seen references in web-pages requesting visitors to show their appreciation or help by clicking on the advertiser's link. Such desperate methods are of questionable ethics as it provides unwanted clicks for the advertisers, who pays for them.

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June 24th, 2006 HitTail is a nifty utility to get suggestions for writing your blog entries following the long tail model. All throughout the day I couldn't login to their site, proving once again - If it sounds too good to be true...

May 31st, 2009 LONDON - By using a new software, researchers from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the University of Edinburgh have been able to recreate a long forgotten musical instrument called the Lituus. Played in Ancient Rome, the 2.4m (8ft) long trumpet-like instrument fell out of use some 300 years ago.