SCIENCE

Can Weight Lifting Make You 'Crazy'?

Does weight lifting have negative psychological effect? In a new study, more than 10 per cent of the participants showed symptoms of a psychological disorder that led them to think that their body is “too small” or “insufficiently muscular”.

iRobot’s Ava: Your New Multipurpose Robot

Robotics company iRobot has lofty goals for its Ava robot: the company plans to ship Ava to shopping malls and hospitals in the United States to help humans in everyday tasks.

Warp Drives: Slowing Down is a Planet Killer

Fans of science fiction will have one less technology to look forward to in the future. The ubiquitous warp drive made popular in such shows as Star Trek, could fry any planetary system it stops in.
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Meteor Shower Amazes Skywatchers (Video)

People from around the world were surprised by a fireball that hit the sky at around 10:45 p.m. in Victoria and also in other places such as Frankston, Cairnlea, Dandenong, Anglesea and Tullamarine.

Innovation of the Week: Greening the Desert

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), there are 1 billion hungry people in the world, most of who live in poor rural areas. As the world's population is set to hit 7 billion, policy-makers are struggling to find ways to nourish our planet's growing population.

Raising Aquaponic Seedlings For The Lazy

Ask most people why they got into Aquaponics and they'll tell you that its about "food security" or eating "healthy food" or to maintain an interest in an "unusual hobby" and these are all valid points but the real answer when you dig a little deeper is that most people are bone lazy when it comes to pottering around in the garden, digging up weeds and all that back breaking work shifting compost and mulching stuff around.

Federal Government Axes Solar Rebate Programme

The federal government of Australia announced on Tuesday night the sudden end to the $320-million solar hot water programme. The decision was part of the Gillard government's major revamp of its subsidy programmes.

After LNG, China Test Drives Methanol-Fuelled Cars

After implementing the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered public buses in Beijing, China, whose energy consumption rose by 7 per cent in 2011 over a year ago, will conduct a trial run of methanol-fuelled cars in three provinces effective March 2012.

Global Warming Shrank Early Horses

The first known horses were the size of house cats, weighing only 8 pounds but before they could evolve to the stately creatures they are today horses shrank even smaller because of global warming.

Neural Interfaces Could Provide Better Prosthetics

A new technique that could provide a prosthetic limb that moves and responds like an actual flesh and blood limb has been a major goal for researchers and physicians for years. Now a joint project by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has found a way for amputees to gain better control over their prosthetics with help from their own nervous systems.

Common Flu Vaccine Myths Debunked

Influenza, commonly known as flu, affects as many as one in five Americans each year, while more than 200,000 get hospitalized due to seasonal flu-related complications, yet many still do not get vaccinated, reports said.

Galaxy Teeming with Rogue Planets

Our galaxy is filled with rogue planets that don't orbit around a star, according to researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. In fact there could be thousands, perhaps billions of "nomad planets" hurtling around the galaxy and far outnumbering the stars.

Keep Your House Sustainable for the Future

All of us are becoming more aware of the need to encompass sustainable living into the future. Gone are the wasteful days of using electricity as though there was no tomorrow and the utter waste of fuel in all its forms has been nothing less than disgraceful.

What Tank Should you Get for Aquaponics?

Choosing a tank suitable for aquaponics is probably a no brainer. Many people grab the first thing that suits their budget, but not all tanks are the same and some can positively damage your health and kill all your fish.

Vitamin D and Cancer - Nine Facts "they" Won't Tell You

Before, to be diagnosed with the big C seemed to be an implied death sentence. Patients even go through a stage of self-denial. Who can blame them? Conventional medicine paints a rather bleak future for cancer patients and the remedy it offers does nothing to improve their quality of life, nausea and falling hair not to mention.

Broken Hearts may Actually be Able to Cause Death

The expression "he/she died of a broken heart" is often used to describe someone who has died after having been depressed for a long time. Usually that person drinks or drugs himself/herself to death after a desperate period of loss, bitter disappointment, or environmentally induced depression.

Cancer Therapy More Potent When It Hits Two Targets

Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found - work that may improve the effectiveness of combination treatments that include drugs like Avastin.

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