SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands—The U.S. Justice Department will probably appeal a New York district court ruling that the Patriot Act violates the U.S. constitution, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican-led congressional committee on Wednesday rejected concerns about civil liberties and passed a bill to expand the U.S. government’s power to track terror suspects and deport people seen as a risk.
Japanese scientists said Tuesday they have created a new element that is heavier than any known element, the most significant in the field since the heaviest known element was discovered in Germany in 1996.
The Pentagon has let more than 40 percent of contracts since 1998 without bidding, said a study released Wednesday by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI).
WASHINGTON [MENL]—The Bush administration has drafted contingency plans meant to increase military pressure on Syria.
VANCOUVER, Washington (CNN)—The U.S. Geological Survey issued a volcanic advisory Wednesday for Mount St. Helens with officials warning of a heightened possibility of a small to moderate eruption.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Communist Party chief and President Hu Jintao has urged the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare for a military struggle, but stopped short of singling out rival Taiwan as the target.
SEISMOLOGISTS believe they have pinpointed the source of a mysterious low-frequency “hum” that emanates from the Earth, the British science journal Nature reports.
In recent years, lots of efforts have been made to give robots the ability to hear and see. But what about the sense of touch? Unlike us, robots don’t have sensitive skin. But this is about to change. By using organic, or plastic, field-effect transistors as pressure sensors deposited on a flexible material, researchers at the University of Tokyo have created an artificial skin which will give robots the sense of touch.
For the first time, a team of physicists of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has controlled “the movement of a single atom back and forth between neighboring locations on a crystal.” This will allow to build nanoscale devices atom by atom. Not happy enough with this technological breakthrough, the NIST team also discovered that the atoms were ‘noisy’ when moving on the crystal surface. They converted the electronic signals emitted by the atoms into audio ones and they were quite surprised to hear something similar to a ‘hip-hop’ musician’s rhythmic ‘scratching’. The audio files also helped the team to know in real time that atoms have moved into desired positions.
from Science, Order, and Creativity
by David Bohm and F. David Peat
In the introduction, a call was made for a new surge of creativity in science. By now it will be clear that such a surge must extend into all areas of human activity if the actual challenge, which has finally revealed itself, is to be met. But does this mean that creativity must somehow be elicited from an organism that does not have in itself a natural potential for creativity? It is proposed that, on the contrary, human beings do indeed have such a potential. However as children grow older, this creativity appears to be blocked.
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We are timespace vehicles with probability drives.
The probability fields in which we exist in and perceive may be nothing more than arbitrary creations of higher intelligence. Probabilities only expanding as fast as we are ready to navigate them.. As we begin communicating with higher intelligence we can begin to reprogram more of our own probability fields, creating our own synchronicities, luck and destiny. Those who figure this out will take us to the stars and beyond.
A cannabis-like substance produced by the brain may dampen delusional or psychotic experiences, rather than trigger them.
NEW YORK – A federal judge Wednesday found unconstitutional a part of the United States’ anti-terror Patriot Act that allows authorities to demand customer records from businesses without court approval.