News from 2011:
Human Alterations and Phenomena
- Earth to hit 7 billion mark this year, straining developing regions
- Doctors who work with x-rays may be adapting at the cellular level to withstand radiation
- UK Researchers Urge Rules Governing Creation and Use of Human-Animal Hybrids
- Next-Generation Gelatin Could be Derived from Humans Instead of Animals
Disasters
- Joplin Tornado
- Missouri River Floods
- Queensland Floods
- Mass Animal Deaths 2011
- Quake a wake-up call for Eastern US
- East coast tries to pick up pieces after devestation left by Irene
Scary Nature
- Freak weather forces waterfall to flow UPWARDS in extreme 75mph winds
- Cyclopean baby shark smiles for camera (despite being dead)
Medicine and Genetic Research
- New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection By Killing the Body’s Infected Cells
- Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea
- Infecting Mosquitoes with Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever
- Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing Memory-Erasing Drugs, Neuroethicist Argues
- CalTech Researchers Find a Toggle Switch for Mouse, and Perhaps Human, Aggression
- New Genome Editing Method Helps Scientists Rewrite Whole Sections of the Code of Life
Invention
- Acoustic Invisibility Cloak Makes Objects Unhearable
- Space-Time Cloak Possible, Could Make Events Disappear?
- Augmented Reality iPad App Uses NASA Tech to Know Where You Are, Accurate to Under a Centimeter
ROBOTS and Technology
- A base to call their own? Army considers letting robots roam freely
- Eyeborg: Man Films Through His Missing Eye
- Internet’s memory effects quantified in computer study
- Navy’s Next Wonder Weapon Combines a High Speed 25mm Gun with Deadly Laser
- Researchers build DNA neural network that thinks
- 13 Year Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci Sequence
- U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron Wants a Master Kill-Switch for Social Networks
- ‘Lovotics’ Engineers Attempt to Give Robots the Ability to Love
End of the World
- A Chinese Solar Sailing Scheme to Divert the Asteroid Apophis fr om its Collision Course with Earth
- Harold Camping convinces everyone Judgement Day is here on May 21, 2011. When it doesn’t happen, he changes the date to October 21st.
- The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 – and many people believe that’s the end of days.
Is it starting to make sense now?
