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Cool graphs, read the entire story here: http://www.kirainet.com/english/the-least-religious-countries/

check it out here: http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=216688

Source: engadget

Source: BBCNews

Scientists have been able to take control of flies’ brains to make females behave just like males.

Researchers genetically modified the insects so that a group of brain cells that control sexual behaviour could be “switched on” by a pulse of light.

Source: NewSciencetistTech

Graphene, a material made from flat sheets of carbon in a honeycomb arrangement is a leading contender. A team at the University of Manchester, UK, have now used it to make some of the smallest transistors ever. Devices only 1 nm across that contain just a few carbons rings.

Previous graphene transistors were significantly bigger – ribbons 10 nm across and many times longer.

Source: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080418/150688/

Rohm Co Ltd and the Research Center for Photovoltaics of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have announced that they have succeeded in prototyping a CIGS (Cu-In-Ga-Se) image sensor that has approximately 100 times the sensitivity of CCD, CMOS and other Si-based image sensors.

They have confirmed that their sensor can recognize images in environments as dark as 0.001lx, which is difficult for existing Si image sensors, they said. As the new image sensor can also recognize images with light in the near infrared zone, expected applications include automotive cameras, monitoring cameras, iris and vein authentication, which must support image sensing under lighting conditions ranging from bright to dark.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=313

$18.000 for the device, and $180 for 300GB disks

Pretty interesting blog from a company currently installing a submarine telecommunications cable between Australia and Guam:

http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=65 

http://play.typeracer.com/

Source: BBCNews

A breakthrough in technology could see the memory capacity of storage devices increase by 150,000 times, Glasgow University researchers claimed.

Click the source for the article.

Very nice guide about applying thermal paste to the CPU: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=1

Click on the source link.

Source: Dailytech

Second Sight Vision, a U.S. company located near Los Angeles, is becoming the pioneering enterprise in commercial electro-ocular implants. Starting as early as 2004, it began carrying out research a series of 15 implants. The implants are part of a trial that has been going on for over three years, with patients in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico. The trial is the first of its kind.

On Monday, two British citizens received the implants at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital. The two men, both in their 50s, were completely blind before the operation. If successful, the operation should grant them limited vision allow them to navigate around obstacles and see objects. The operation to implant the artificial implants inside the existing ocular tissue takes about 3 hours. The retinas cost about $23,000 USD and are predicted to be approved for general use within three years.

Source: Dailytech

U.S. Department of Defense announces AFIRM with goal of using stem cell research to treat injured soldiers

Source: Dailytech

Enceladus’ possible sub-surface water could harbor the necessary chemicals for this process to occur, along with the heat to drive chemical reactions. It does seem a little more far-fetched than Earth’s life’s foundation, but stranger things have been known to happen in the universe.

Source: http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks