Idealist News

Fabricator Brings Concepts from Blueprint to 3-D Reality

Curry's Fabulous New Fabricator Brings Concepts from Digital Blueprint to 3-D Reality

March 25, 2010 - Imagine a desktop printer that produces tennis shoes, chocolate Rotundas, tubing for robots and even human organs. Not pictures of them, but the real deal.

It sounds futuristic, but its time is now... Read More...

2,487.5 MPG Achieved at 2010 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas(R)

Student-built, fuel-efficient prototype vehicle achieves farthest distance using least amount of fuel

HOUSTON, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Extreme mileage was the goal this weekend on the streets of downtown Houston as 42 student teams competed in the 2010 Shell Eco-marathon Americas®, a challenge for students to design, build and test fuel-efficient vehicles that travel the farthest distance using the least amount of energy... Read More...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. re-opens the vaccine-autism controversy

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still questions the role mercury-containing thimerosal, found in some vaccines administered to kids under two, may play in the formation of childhood autism.

London, Canada - You may have thought the link between vaccines and autism had been broken with the recent news that Dr. Andrew Wakefield had been branded "dishonest", "unethical" and "callous" by the UK General Medical Council in Great Britain... Read More...

Fight against malaria goes online

March 23rd, 2010

The battle against malaria in Africa has now gone online, with the U.N. organizing a group of high-profile Internet insiders to encourage social media envoys to post and tweet for malaria control... Read More...

SUPERCHILLY CHEMISTRY

New theory and experiments show how molecules react in an ultracold system

PORTLAND, Ore. - Researchers have been able to stop and start chemical reactions between molecules at temperatures colder than the depths of outer space. And new theoretical descriptions help explain the quantum mechanical details of these ultracold chemical reactions... Read More...