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Archive for November 30th, 2008

Antioxidants ‘cannot slow ageing’

Diets and creams which claim their antioxidant properties could cheat the advances of time may be worthless, researchers suggest.

Michelin Unveils Active Wheel in Affordable Electric Car

Image: Michelin
The Holy Grail of Eco-transportation
Could this be the technology that revolutionizes transportation? Will the company that invented the air-pressure tire trump that achievement by making electric cars affordable and practical? Michelin’s Active Wheel system is the holy grail of wheel technology: a wheel with an integrated drive motor that has succeeded to meet unsprung […]

Performance Tuner Modification for the Smart Car

Photo Credit to Ducktail964
Performance modifying your green vehicle just might have been one of those things that made the C + C Music Factory exclaim, “hmmm” back in 1991.
You had to know it was coming… it was only a matter of time before the peppy and the frugal caught up with the Fast and the […]

Cheap Gas: Good or Bad?

Once again, in America, gasoline is cheaper than bottled water. Is this good or bad?
Let’s start with the bad (5 reasons):

1) Thousands of more Americans will perish in car crashes. There is a direct, undisputed correlation between the price of gas and the number of deaths in car accidents each year. This […]

Global Warming Opens Northwest Passage

photo by wikimedia
Climate change is making the impassable passable. The legendary and treacherous Northwest Passage, once believed to be unnavigable by larger ships, has been successfully traversed by a commercial cargo ship. Satellite photos had shown the passage to be open as early as 2007, but it wasn’t until a few days ago that the […]

Richard Branson Backs Legal Bid to Protect Virgin Island Mangroves

The outcome of a case pitting an environmental charity organization against the British Virgin Islands (BVI) government and several developers could determine the future of the Caribbean environment and set the groundwork for the creation of an international environment court, writes The Independent’s Robert Verkaik. The Virgin Islands Environmental Council (VIEC), whose legal efforts are […]

Heart disease ‘reversed in mice’

Scientists have halted the advance of heart disease in mice - and even reversed some of its effects.

Decision due on conjoined twins

Doctors will decide next Tuesday whether to operate on two conjoined twins born in a London hospital last week.