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As the proud owner of a 2002 Volvo S60 2.4T, I’m very pleased to see that Volvo builds some of the safest auto seat-headrest assemblies in the world.

Oh, great, another health risk that appears to be targeting me, personally: according to a Japanese study, excessive computer use can lead to glaucoma in short-sighted people.

The best images ever photographed of Uranus through a telescope were created by a ground-based instrument, not Hubble! Technology marches on.

The ion-enginedSMART-1 spacecraft, Europe’s first lunar mission, will go into orbit around the Moon on Monday.

…is today’s most science-fictional-sounding headline. Cosmos 1, the world’s first solar-sail spacecraft will launch early next year from a Russian submarine, using a converted ICBM as its launch vehicle…a clear case of beating swords into ploughshares.

In the spring of 2002, scientists from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, announced that monkeys had successfully played a simple computer gamer. Their point wasn’t that any old monkey can play video games. What was special about their game-playing monkeys was that the on-screen cursor in the game was controlled by signals sent directly …

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These aren’t exactly the air-cars of science fiction, but they’re the next best thing.

The SpaceShipOne crew have finally gotten their hands on the X-Prize’s $10,000,000.

If this is true, how come I’ve never been able to float?

Using genetically modified mice, California researchers are closing in on a better understanding of nicotine addiction. All public places in Saskatchewan will be smoke-free as of January 1. They’d better hurry.

Well, at last! I haven’t been able to post for a few days because of server problems at Blogger. But it looks like everything is sorted out.