Share Scientists at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center announced that they have utilized human liver cells to produce miniature livers that work like the real ones. The report came out on October 31 during a meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) at [...]
Share Ehud Netzer, 75, the Israeli archaeologist who found the tomb of King Herod in the Bible, died after falling during a dig on Thursday. He was believed to have suffered serious injuries from the fall which transpired at Herodium, an archaeological place in the West Bank between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin [...]
Share Reason Magazine listed about 14 ways on cutting government spending and the increase of unemployment in its issue this month. Some of the ideas included are exterminating the Department of Education, Department of Energy, and absolutely getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan zones. Student grades have been going down since 1971 and the Department [...]
Share Ford has just launched a website with educational content on electric vehicles in which surfers can interact with its programs. The site gives insights on the differences of the make of each vehicle. Information on the hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and pure battery electric vehicles such as the Ford Fusion Hybrid and the Ford Focus [...]
Share George Clarke, a Belfast filmmaker and an avid collector of Charlie Chaplin’s films and keepsakes, has discovered something strange in Chaplin’s 1928 film entitled “The Circus.” In a that part of the movie, he noticed a woman who looks like a man in a dress walking past the camera while talking into a flat [...]
Share NASA continues to study the possibilities of sending astronauts to the red planet or its moons, considering advertently human transportation for permanent stay. The project, which is called the Hundred Year Starship, is spearheaded by NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. The estimated cost of the expedition is more than £7 billion and may [...]
Share With the anticipated Democratic losses at the polls this November, Senator Bingman (D-NM) believes that it may be impossible for renewable energy legislation to pass during the remainder of President Obama’s first elected term. In a statement made at conference hosted by Reuters last week, “I don’t see a comprehensive bill going anywhere in [...]
Share In a press released dated September 28, 2010, Green Plains Renewable Energy announced plans to acquire Global Ethanol, LLC. Green Plains, currently the fourth largest Ethanol producer in North America, expects this acquisition to increase production of ethanol by up to 31%. The acquisition adds two new production plants to the Green Plains umbrella: [...]
Share Joule leverages a completely novel SolarConverter™ system to manage the entire production cycle with up to 50X the efficiencies of bio fuel production. They have recently acquired a U.S. patent on the system. Requiring only the sunlight and waste CO2, the system can produce renewable a diesel fuel, and said to be that they [...]
Share A new study by the University of Florid has revealed that ants are quite capable of defending their territories from Africa Elephants. A battle that should make David and Goliath look fair and even. When the elephants attack the trees resident ants will swarm up the nostrils of the elephants, giving them enough discomfort [...]
