RECORD EARTH HOUR PARTICIPATION WITH ONE DAY TO GO
With one day to go until the biggest ever Earth Hour, a record 147 countries and territories are preparing to send a united message that now is the time to […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
LIVING MICRO-ROBOT COULD DIAGNOSE DISEASE
http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/62422-living-micro-robot-could-diagnose-disease. Biologists and engineers are working on a tiny robot that functions like a living creature and could be safely used within the human body to diagnose disease. Called ‘Cyberplasm’, […]
AMID LIBRARY-WIDE DIGITIZATION, BOOKS KEEP FOOTHOLD
Amid Library-Wide Digitization, Books Keep Foothold. As libraries around the world transition from hardbound books to digital files, at California State University, Northridge, a massive infrastructure keeps things running. Behind […]
UK BIOBANK PUTS MEDICAL RECORDS OF HALF A MILLION BRITONS ONLINE
An enormous online database of medical and lifestyle records from half a million middle-aged Britons is published on Friday, giving scientists a powerful new tool to study diseases such as […]
VICTORIAN NEWCASTLE BROUGHT TO LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHIC TREASURE TROVE
Newly discovered collection of photographic plates shows meat markets, rag sellers and street scenes from 1880s.
JK ROWLING’S NEW (MAGIC) TRICK: HARRY POTTER E-BOOKS
As of Tuesday, March 27, readers making their way through J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series need no longer hasten to a bookstore or library to get the next book: You […]
THE REAL DA VINCI CODE: LOUVRE UNLOCKS LAST WORK
An intense and controversial restoration of the last great work by Leonardo da Vinci goes before the public Thursday at the Louvre Museum, revealing “The Virgin and Child with Saint […]
CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL MARKS CENTENNIAL EVENT
Cherry Blossom Festival Marks Centennial Event. The centennial celebration of Washington’s cherry trees is in full bloom this week with Cherry Blossom Festival events well underway. For the full article: […]
BRAINS! LONDON EXHIBITION LOOKS AT HUMANITY’S QUEST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT’S INSIDE OUR SKULLS
A new London exhibition explores that fascination, displaying everything from mummified Egyptian cerebral matter to slices of Albert Einstein’s brain in the story of our quest to understand what’s inside […]
FACE TRANSPLANT MAN DOING WELL AFTER BIGGEST OPERATION YET
After 15 years of wearing a mask and living as a recluse, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident has been given a new face, nose, teeth and […]
