A Secretive Start-Up Raises the Curtain - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A Secretive Start-Up Raises the Curtain - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com: "In The New York Times on Wednesday, I wrote about Bloom Energy, the once-secretive Silicon Valley start-up that has apparently made a big breakthrough in developing a fuel cell that can generate electricity at competitive prices while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions."

Inside the Beltway - Washington Times

Inside the Beltway - Washington Times: "A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center.

'In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded outwards,' says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth."

Small liquid sensor may detect cancer instantly, could lead to home detection kit

Small liquid sensor may detect cancer instantly, could lead to home detection kit: "ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2010) — What if it were possible to go to the store and buy a kit to quickly and accurately diagnose cancer, similar to a pregnancy test? A University of Missouri researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test bodily fluids for a variety of diseases, including breast and prostate cancers."

All eyes on Bloom Box fuel cell launch | Environment | guardian.co.uk

All eyes on Bloom Box fuel cell launch | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Anticipation and suspicion run high before launch of Bloom Box, claimed to be a cheap source of clean energy from a device the size of a loaf of bread"

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. - By Deborah Blum - Slate Magazine

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. - By Deborah Blum - Slate Magazine: "Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people."

Fars News Agency :: Gold Nanoparticles Hit Cancer Cells Directly

Fars News Agency :: Gold Nanoparticles Hit Cancer Cells Directly: "TEHRAN (FNA)- Findings of a new study showed that by directing gold nanoparticles into the nuclei of cancer cells, they can not only prevent them from multiplying, but kill them where they lurk."