A prototype USB drive using bug protein to store data in the neighborhood of around 50 terabytes worth of data could be here in less then 18 months. This idea first started out by coating DVDs with a layer of protein so that one day solid state memory could hold so much information that storing data on your computer hard drive will be obsolete, says Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston while reporting on his findings at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Brisbane.
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A monkey from a zoo in Jiaozuo, in the Chinese province of Henan, has formed an unlikely bond with an unusual role model.
A three feet lobster (R) is seen beside a lobster of a normal size. The giant lobster, with a claw about 18 inches long, was caught off the coast of Cornwall at Eddystone Reef in England, according to media report on Friday. The fisherman John Brannan named it Eddy and decided to donate Eddy to the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay.(Photo source: Dayoo.com) Read the rest of this entry »
For more than 40 years, scientists have tried to figure out what’s causing large parts of Canada, particularly the Hudson Bay region, to be “missing” gravity. In other words, gravity in the Hudson Bay area and surrounding regions is lower than it is in other parts of the world, a phenomenon first identified in the 1960s when the Earth’s global gravity fields were being charted. Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 22-year-old woman in the United States is publicly auctioning her virginity to pay for her college education, sparking a heated online debate about sex and morality.
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CAPLEN, Texas – A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris. Read the rest of this entry »