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A tractor-trailer carrying a dangerous acid overturned on a highway Saturday, prompting authorities to order thousands of residents to leave the area for almost nine hours.
Just in time for Christmas, German researchers are ramping up a manufacturing technique for making intricate Nativity figurines, toys, and even hi-fi speaker boxes from a renewable and surprisingly versatile source: liquid wood.
A man who may have been exposed to toxic ricin in his motel room a month ago has regained consciousness and was being questioned by investigators, authorities said Friday. Roger Bergendorff, 57, remained in critical condition in a hospital, where he has been hospitalized and unable to speak since Feb. 14.
The man at the center of a ricin investigation appears to be a drifter with financial troubles who wore out his welcome in Utah before moving on to Las Vegas, where he has been unconscious in a hospital for weeks.
A hospitalized man who may have been sickened by the deadly toxin ricin was described by former neighbors on Monday as an introvert who often moved around and who loved animals.
FBI agents wearing protective suits searched Sunday for the deadly poison ricin at a suburban home where a man possibly sickened by the deadly poison had once lived.
A motel patron hospitalized after the potent poison ricin was mysteriously found in his room "barely got by in life," according to a woman who knew him when he lived at a Utah home that agents hoped to search Saturday.
As police tried to piece together how a rare, deadly poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a hospital.
Vials found in the motel room of a man hospitalized in critical condition tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, authorities said Friday. There was no indication of any link to terrorist activity, Las Vegas police Deputy Chief Kathy Suey said at a press conference.
Neither government nor industry has accurate information on the availability of minerals and other materials that may become critical for uses ranging from everyday household products to national defense, it was reported Friday.
Quantum Goes Massive :: LIGO Lends an EyeWhile the effort to detect gravitational waves is ongoing, the researchers have now used the LIGO apparatus to observe the oscillations of a 2.7 kg pendulum mode at a level close to its quantum ground state.
Einstein's 'Spooky Physics' Gets More EntangledPrevious experiments have entangled the internal properties of particles, such as spin states, but this is the first time scientists have entangled the particles' pattern of motion. More Articles
County Sues Strip Club as Billboard Battle EscalatesExcerpt: The Platinum Club in Rosedale describes itself a first class adult entertainment lounge, but residents living near their billboard in the Five Towns section of Nassau County are offended by the club's giant outdoor advertisement featuring a scantily clad woman.
Method Proposed for Entangling Matterthe physicists suggest using a pulsed magnetic field to spatially separate the particles' wave functions.
Spyware programs on work computers tell allWEST PALM BEACH, FL (WFLX) - Recent studies show the average person surfs the net at work for one to two hours for personal reasons and not for work duties.
Comedians worried about lack of Obama material U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's historic victory does not bode well for comedians who have thrived on jokes about President George W. Bush, experts say.
Vials From 60-Yr-Old Experiment Offer New Hints on Origin of Life - NYTimes.comA classic experiment exploring the origin of life has, more than a half-century later, yielded new results. More Articles
Diamonds May Be Life's Birthstone | SPACE.comSommer and his collaborators previously showed that hydrogenated diamond is very hydrophobic, or "water fearing" — meaning it pushes water away.
Black day for scienceUS researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light.
Invisibility cloak 'step closer' Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible. Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".
Idaho Press-Tribune: Eastern Idaho worker inhales radioactive materialOn Friday, a worker at an eastern Idaho company inhaled an unknown amount of Strontium 90, a radioactive material associated with medical and industrial processes and other nuclear applications.
Beginning of the end for laddered tights The imagination is the only limit for a new material that can mend itself when ripped. In hospitals it could add durability to artificial bones and around the house it heralds the prospect of unbreakable glass and unchippable paint.
Slovak police say three accused of trying to sell nuclear material Alarms over international nuclear smuggling were raised last night when Slovak police announced that three men had been arrested in Slovakia and Hungary after allegedly trying to sell a kilogram of radioactive material.
A Threat to Newsvine? Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command.
Scientists hail 'frozen smoke' as material that will change world - Times OnlineScientists hail 'frozen smoke' as material that will change world Abul Taher A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.
Homeschooling Laws for ParentsDespite a commonly held belief that taking your children out of school and teaching them at home is likely to run you into trouble with the law, homeschooling is in fact completely legal.
Plastic That Heals ItselfResearchers have developed a new material that can fill in its own surface cracks.
I (with your help) intend to prove the existence of metaphysical reality. First, key synonyms:
According to Scansafe's Monthly Global Threat Report for March 2007, almost 80 percent -- contain "offensive" content, with six percent hosting active malware. 80%. That is unreal.
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Future Laptops To Be Equipped With Roll Up ScreensA Cambridge team of scientists has developed new metal structures that can transform from flat screens into tubes and other shapes; a breakthrough which may one day bring roll-up screens in laptops.
Rocket Foam May Save Surfboard Industry - Yahoo! NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A material developed to protect electronics in nuclear weapons could resolve a shortage after the major supplier of surfboard foam suddenly closed its doors late last year, officials said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT
Hacking Matter - Changing Properties At Free WillImagine being able to program matter itself - to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible.
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