Report: Dead Harvested for Products
- Donated human remains are processed
into medical products that generate hundreds of millions of dollars
for U.S. companies despite laws barring profit from body parts, The
Orange County Register reported Sunday. Although grieving families are told that the donations are a
gift of life, the newspaper found that material harvested from the
dead fuels an industry that is expected to have $1 billion in
revenues by 2003...
Sun's Got
the Beat - Scientists discover a 16-month
cycle in the Sun's differential rotation 225,000 km
below the visible surface. April 3, 2000 -- Like blood pulsing in
an artery, newly discovered currents of gas beat deep
inside the Sun, speeding and slackening every 16 months.
The solar "heartbeat" throbs
in the same region of the Sun suspected of driving the
11-year cycle of solar eruptions, during which the Sun
goes from stormy to quiet and back again. Scientists are
hopeful that this pulse can help them unravel the origin
and operation of the solar cycle...
Web Site
Posts Most Revealing Photos
Ever Of Area 51 - No little green men.
No ornate flying saucers. No bizarre, flashing force
fields. So much for the big
UFO conspiracy theories about the ultra-secret Area 51
military test site in Nevada - for now, that is. A Web site based in
North Carolina has posted the most extensive photos ever
seen of Area 51, the focus of more space alien theories
than just about any other place on earth. And the
breathlessly awaited answer to the question of what it
looks like out there is...
Tribute to
Carl Sagan - 1934-1996 - "The Cosmos is all that is or
ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of
the Cosmos stir us-there is a tingling in the spine, a
catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant
memory, of falling from a height. We know we are
approaching the greatest of mysteries..." -"The Shores of the Cosmic
Ocean," Cosmos, p. 4.
Australian
Volcanoes - The Australian continent lies on the
Indo-Australian Plate. This plate is moving northwards
away from Antarctica at approximately 7 cm a year.
As the Plate moves it collides with the Eurasia Plate
and the Pacific Plate which lie to the north and east.
This collision causes melting of the mantle and part of
the subducted crust. The molten rock can reach the
surface and form volcanoes, shown in this slide as red
triangles. The chain of volcanoes on this plate boundary
continue around the Pacific Ocean rim where the Pacific
Plate and other plates collide. This chain of volcanoes
is known as the 'Ring of Fire'. Currently there are no
active volcanoes on the Australian continent — the
only continent without an active volcano...
Techies taken
with latest Legos - Tom Stangl
looks up from his narrow cubicle and admires the dozens
of colorful creations he built from his collection of
about a quarter-million Lego building blocks. "As a grown man, this is good
stress relief and it keeps my imagination going,"
said Stangl, a 34-year-old technical support engineer
for Sun-Netscape Alliance and one of thousands of
techies taken with this children's toy...
Internet
Pioneer to Be Named Top F. C. C. Technologist - The
Federal Communications Commission plans to announce that it has appointed a pioneering computer
scientist and telecommunications expert as the agency's
chief technologist. The appointee, David J. Farber, a
University of Pennsylvania professor, drew attention
last year when he served as a Justice Department expert
witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial...
Seti@home
gets an upgrade - It could make the greatest
discovery of all time... When the Seti@home project
began in May 1999, using a computer screensaver to search
for alien signals seemed almost as crazy as searching
at all. But 161 thousand years of computer time later,
the project has been phenomenally successful. It has
also been popular, with 1.62 million users now signed
up and doing their bit for intergalactic communication...
Human
Cells Get Tiny Computers - Tiny biological "computers"
could one day be built inside every cell in the human
body to work as microscopic doctors, according to an
Israeli scientist. The tiny machines, constructed from
molecular building blocks, could keep watch for hostile
bacteria and dispense an antibiotic, or look for the
symptoms of disease and prescribe the appropriate drug...
Click
Here for more "Science & Health" Archives
(Real
Audio Enabled)
TOP
